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reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Tamsyn Muir: Gideon the Ninth (Hardcover, 2019, Tordotcom)

Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian …

Dark and messy

I loved it, merging dark fantasy magic, with a sci-fi setting, and telling a horror story. It was a great page turner for me.

Simon Funk: After life (EBook)

If you could upload your mind, where would you put it? A postcyberpunk Extropian sci-fi …

Short fun

Ended rather abruptly so now I'm wondering if it's not finished yet. Still, it was a fun "existential read".

commented on After life by Simon Funk

Simon Funk: After life (EBook)

If you could upload your mind, where would you put it? A postcyberpunk Extropian sci-fi …

Huh chapter two gave me some strange, very vague but nostalgic memory of having read this before? It was a very weird feeling but quite funny, when considering the topic of memory in the first chapter.

James L. Cambias: A Darkling Sea (2014)

On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof of ice a kilometer thick, a team of …

Sloppy

A three-way first contact story, under an icy ocean, sounded nice enough! But once I started reading I felt like a slob; people competing with "finding the most ways to kill their 'annoying' coworker", anime porn collections and alien genitalia? I'll pass on that. The story itself couldn't give me any motivation to continue with it.