The five stars are really six stars; alternatively I should go back and rescore a lot of my past reading to make room. The empathy and sensibility in this perspective-flip of Lovecraft’s canon lends a strong emotional grip to an already captivating plot.
I cant wait to read more from Emrys!
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Johnny rated On Tyranny: 5 stars
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin …
Johnny rated The red queen: 4 stars
Johnny rated Filterworld: 3 stars
Filterworld by Kyle Chayka
Terms From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and …
Johnny rated The Annihilation Score: 4 stars
The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross (Laundry Files, #6)
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER ... Dr Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top secret government agency known as …
Johnny rated The Bezzle: 3 stars
The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of …
Johnny rated Slavernes skibe.: 4 stars
Johnny reviewed Winter tide by Ruthanna Emrys
"Two decades ago the U.S. Government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them …
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5 stars
Johnny rated The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5): 4 stars
Johnny rated Termination Shock: 5 stars
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
Termination Shock takes readers on a thrilling, chilling visit to our not-too-distant future – a world in which the greenhouse …
Johnny rated The Rapture of the Nerds: 3 stars
The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross
Welcome to the Fractured Future
It's the dusk of the twenty-first century, and the Earth has a population of a …
Johnny rated The Internet Con: 5 stars
The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us …
Johnny rated The Long Ships: 5 stars
The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
Feisty Red Orm is only a boy when the Vikings pluck him from Denmark to be their oarsman. Forced to …
AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh
An analysis of ethical issues in artificial intelligence: narratives, philosophies and responses.