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Jelmer rated Blood of Elves: 3 stars
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski (Fantasy Orbit)
The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher. For over a century, humans, …
Jelmer rated Pattern recognition: 3 stars
Pattern recognition by William Gibson, William F. Gibson (duplicate) (Blue Ant, #1)
One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with …
Jelmer rated Futurological Congress: 4 stars
Jelmer rated Machines Like Me: 3 stars
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in …
Jelmer rated Use of Weapons: 3 stars
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)
Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990. It is …
Jelmer rated The Player of Games: 5 stars
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks, Iain Banks (Culture, part 2)
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest …
Jelmer rated Consider Phlebas: 3 stars
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #1)
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced …
Jelmer rated House of Suns: 4 stars
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and …
Jelmer rated Pushing Ice: 4 stars
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
In 2057, Bella Lind and the crew of the Rockhopper mine comets for their ice, but when Janus, one of …
Jelmer rated Dead Astronauts: 3 stars
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (Borne #2)
Jelmer rated Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race: 5 stars
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote on her blog about her frustration with the way that discussions of race …
Jelmer rated Children of Men: 4 stars
Jelmer rated Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: 4 stars
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip Dick
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …