kab rated And Shall Machines Surrender: 3 stars

And Shall Machines Surrender by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
On the dyson sphere Shenzhen, artificial intelligences rule and humans live in luxury, vying to be chosen as host bodies-called …
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On the dyson sphere Shenzhen, artificial intelligences rule and humans live in luxury, vying to be chosen as host bodies-called …
Gadsby's unique stand-up special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability …
"Originally published in 1982, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: …
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, …
In & This is How to Stay Alive by Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Nyokabi’s world unravels after her brother Baraka’s death …
« Je m'appelle Fatima Daas. Je suis la mazoziya, la dernière. Celle à laquelle on ne s'est pas préparé. Française …
Four months ago, Millie left the Arcadia Project after losing her partner Teo to the lethal magic of an Unseelie …
What is the purpose of a map?
Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel …
A year ago Millie lost her legs and her filmmaking career in a failed suicide attempt. Just when she's sure …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
@subcutaneous The premise is excellent but motivations and points of conflict were frustrating. Characters who are scared and/or harried still have time to make unnatural chapter-long confessions. Also commercial concerns seem to be the magic ingredient in making the maps work. You can't draw your own secret passages even if it's in your training. At the same time when I abandon books in a heartbeat I did make it alll the way to the dragged out end :)
This is a book of failure and mistakes; it begins with what is stolen from us and proposes only an …
"Arctic Sky" tells of a young climate activist who discovers her own courage in the frozen depths of a Russian …