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Queer, friendly, wordy, neurodivergent. Vacillatingly voracious reader. General rule of avoiding books that are written by/for/about cishet white men, especially Americans.

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75% complete! rainbowreckoner has read 18 of 24 books.

commented on Lock In by John Scalzi (Lock In, #1)

John Scalzi: Lock In (EBook, 2014, Tor Books)

A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi.

Not too …

Loving this so far! Definitely a page turner. Snappy writing. Diverse characters. A sci-fi concept that's really making me do some deep thinking about bodies, consciousness, and human interaction.

Frank Schätzing: The Swarm (2007, Harper Perennial)

Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea …

I tried. Stuff finally started happening so I read on for a bit. Then at 250 pages, the first female character POV began... and thank God within a page we were told she'd have made a perfect model. I can't. This author is trash and this book sucks. DNF.

Frank Schätzing: The Swarm (2007, Harper Perennial)

Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea …

This book has got a very limited amount of time left to get good before being DNFed. The main characters are all men and the way they interact with and think about women is unpleasant at best. I chose it because it was reviewed as being Crichton-esque, but the hard science to action/interest ratio is VERY different.