I like to read. Mostly sci-fi and some fantasy but also occasionally other stuff including non-fiction. I'm also @ross@social.rbs.io.
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It’s wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler’s inn is always quiet during this season, …
Wonderful book to read the day after Thanksgiving on a plane. I inhaled it in the course of a couple hours.
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans …
Took me a while to finish it up but super interesting and important book.
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …
An intense, quick read. My only sadness is that it wasn't longer. Fun stuff from the always awesome Malka Older!
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent …
BEFORE: In Bristol’s centre lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, …
Haven't had a ton of time in the last couple days for reading, but still enjoying this book so far and looking forward to digging into it more.
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
Loved it! My only complaint would be that Verity felt too much like a passenger on her own adventure through most of the book. Otherwise a great Gibson tale.
A Memory Called Empire is a 2019 science fiction novel, the debut novel by Arkady …
A masterful novel containing intriguing meditations on language, government, the "self", and the life of an empire. Highly recommended.
Listen. A god is speaking. My voice echoes through the stone of your master's castle. The castle where he finds …
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since "Information," a powerful search engine monopoly, …
The world building was really great and the action built steadily and at a good pace, but I felt like the end just sort of tripped quickly off a cliff. I found myself wanting just a little bit more. What did the whole world look like post-crisis?
Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our …
Harry Harrison: The hammer and the cross (1993, TOR)
What if... the gods of Asgard challenged Christianity for the future of mankind? Alternate History sci-fi.
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research & cutting-edge science in …
