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samsterby rated Children of Memory: 5 stars
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #3)
Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human …
Cwen: A mysterious death, a band of women and a remote island where anything is possible. 'Magical, rich and magnificent' MAXINE PEAKE by Alice Albinia
On an unnamed archipelago off the east coast of Britain, the impossible has come to pass. Women control the civic …
Eversion by Alastair Reynolds (duplicate)
From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and space, where Doctor Silas …
samsterby rated Far from the Light of Heaven: 5 stars
Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a …
samsterby rated Inside Man: 4 stars
Inside Man by K. J. Parker
An anonymous representative of the Devil, once a high-ranking Duke of Hell and now a committed underachiever, has spent the …
samsterby rated A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: 5 stars
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #2)
samsterby rated Eyes of the Void: 4 stars
Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #2)
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extraordinary space opera …
samsterby rated Invisible Sun: 4 stars
samsterby rated Master of the Revels: 5 stars
samsterby rated There Is No Antimemetics Division: 4 stars
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties ; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people …
samsterby rated Notes from the Burning Age: 5 stars
Notes from the Burning Age by Catherine Webb
Ven was once a holy man, a keeper of ancient archives. It was his duty to interpret archaic texts, sorting …
samsterby rated A Psalm for the Wild-Built: 5 stars
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
samsterby rated The price you pay: 5 stars
The price you pay by Aidan Truhen
"In this audacious, lightning-paced thriller, a smart-mouthed, white-collar drug dealer--a hilariously irreverent antihero--seeks revenge when an unknown enemy takes out …