Interesting world. Good fighting. Great character arcs. Highly recommend.
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luddite rated Bring the War Home: 5 stars
Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew
The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its …
luddite reviewed The Sword of Kaigen by M. L. Wang (Theonite)
On a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful fighters …
Review of 'The Sword of Kaigen' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
luddite reviewed Who Are We by Samuel P. Huntington
Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004) is a treatise by political …
Review of 'Who Are We' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Not a 1 because he at least predicted some salient lines of cleavage and embodied the Great Replacement rhetoric, unfortunately. Highly problematic.
luddite rated A Memory Called Empire: 4 stars
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
A Memory Called Empire is a 2019 science fiction novel, the debut novel by Arkady Martine. It follows Mahit Dzmare, …
luddite rated The Way of Kings: 4 stars
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins …
luddite rated Artificial Condition: 4 stars
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems …
luddite rated Rogue Protocol: 3 stars
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
luddite rated Exit Strategy: 4 stars
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes …
luddite rated Words of Radiance: 3 stars
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
The eagerly awaited sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Way of Kings.
Six years ago, the Assassin in …
luddite rated All Systems Red: 3 stars
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
luddite rated Network Effect: 4 stars
Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
WINNER of the 2021 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards!
The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and …
luddite rated The Misinformation Age: 4 stars
The Misinformation Age by Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for …
luddite reviewed A Lot of People Are Saying by Nancy L. Rosenblum
Review of 'A Lot of People Are Saying' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Does a decent job of theorizing the runaway conspiracy theories on the US right-wing, but ignores several key structural factors. Zooms in a little too much on the Trump presidency without situating it in the larger media/knowledge-generating context. A good read nonetheless.
