jim rated The Stars Are Legion: 3 stars
The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is traveling in …
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jim rated Use of Weapons: 4 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 …
jim rated Consider Phlebas: 4 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 …
jim 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 …
jim rated The Hydrogen Sonata: 4 stars
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #10)
Suspected of involvement after the Regimental High Command is destroyed as they prepared to go to a new level of …
jim rated Surface Detail: 4 stars
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.
It begins with a murder.
And it will …
jim rated Look to Windward: 5 stars
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #7)
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.
It led to the destruction of two suns …
Excession by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #5)
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun …
jim rated Hour of the Star: 4 stars
Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Clarice Lispector
The devastating final work by Brazil’s greatest modern writer, The Hour of the Star tells the haunting tale of Macabéa—a …
jim rated All Systems Red: 4 stars
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Murderbot, #1)
All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by American author Martha Wells. The first in a series called …
jim rated Tender Points: 5 stars
Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz
"Tender Points is a narrative fractured by trauma. Named after the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, the book-length lyric essay explores …
jim rated Lovecraft Country: 3 stars
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (Lovecraft Country, #1)
The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in …
jim rated The City We Became: 3 stars
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Duology, #1)
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …
jim rated The Argonauts: 5 stars
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, Maggie Nelson
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family
Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts …
jim rated The Traitor Baru Cormorant: 5 stars
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade, #1)
Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up from the sand of her home and see red sails on …