nknight finished reading Making History by K.J. Parker

Making History by K.J. Parker
History isn't truth...it's propaganda.
Academics can be cocky. Atop their perches of authority high above the thrumming masses of …
I'm a progressive ex-physicist software developer who parents one little, rides an e-bike instead of a car, and has chronic back pain.
I like contemporary speculative or fantastical books that aren't too grim, especially if they're written by authors who are usually under-represented in those genres.
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History isn't truth...it's propaganda.
Academics can be cocky. Atop their perches of authority high above the thrumming masses of …

History isn't truth...it's propaganda.
Academics can be cocky. Atop their perches of authority high above the thrumming masses of …

From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes the remarkable sequel to the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling …

From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes the remarkable sequel to the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling …

The turning point for the entire Star Wars saga is at hand…
After years of civil war, the Separatists …

A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on …

The turning point for the entire Star Wars saga is at hand…
After years of civil war, the Separatists …

Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region’s survivors live inside …

At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by …

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, …
Do you like what Anne Leckie does? Well this book is firing on all cylinders, so you'll probably like it too.
Do you like what Anne Leckie does? Well this book is firing on all cylinders, so you'll probably like it too.

Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter …

For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and …