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It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. …
I love this book more each time I read it, and I notice more each time I read it, too.
Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells’s bestselling and …
If you've enjoyed the Murderbot saga so far, you'll almost certainly enjoy this one too.
If you've enjoyed the Murderbot saga so far, you'll almost certainly enjoy this one too.
Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a …
Athene sets up a city based on Plato's Republic and peoples it with freed slave children, worker robots, and men and women from up and down the timeline. About five years in, Socrates shows up and starts asking some difficult questions.
If you haven't read Plato, that's OK. I haven't, either, and I still understood the book.
One warning: there are a couple scenes of sexual violence, and Jo Walton doesn't shy away from it.
Now I need to read the sequels.
Athene sets up a city based on Plato's Republic and peoples it with freed slave children, worker robots, and men and women from up and down the timeline. About five years in, Socrates shows up and starts asking some difficult questions.
If you haven't read Plato, that's OK. I haven't, either, and I still understood the book.
One warning: there are a couple scenes of sexual violence, and Jo Walton doesn't shy away from it.
Now I need to read the sequels.
@iamViolet I found myself disappointed in the ending. It's one of those Stephen King quirks where he'll write 900 pages of great fiction and then—because he had no idea how to end it—spin the "Wheel o' Conclusions" and let me down in the last 10 pages. I'm glad I read it, but I don't think I'll read it again.
@iamViolet I found myself disappointed in the ending. It's one of those Stephen King quirks where he'll write 900 pages of great fiction and then—because he had no idea how to end it—spin the "Wheel o' Conclusions" and let me down in the last 10 pages. I'm glad I read it, but I don't think I'll read it again.
An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday …
This was my first Fforde book, and it's not gonna be the last.
This was my first Fforde book, and it's not gonna be the last.
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards
The first full-length novel in Martha …
Gad, I love Murderbot.
I got about 100 pages in but it just wasn't working for me.
I got about 100 pages in but it just wasn't working for me.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground …
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story …
I can't tell if all these comma splices slipped past the editor(s) or if they're an intentional part of the style.
I can't tell if all these comma splices slipped past the editor(s) or if they're an intentional part of the style.
"A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small …
A short novel with a lot to think about.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground …
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a …
This was good. Great character development, interesting ideas, unforeseen consequences—Becky Chambers is a great writer.
A Kafka-esque travelogue
