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Saqer (he/they)

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Joined 4 years, 9 months ago

cranky and grouchy reader, mostly speculative/science/fantasy fiction

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S. B. Divya: Machinehood (EBook, 2021, Gallery / Saga Press)

Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client …

Phenomenal Worldbuilding

The book was quite awesome. The worldbuilding was quite phenomenal in a way that was quite intense, and interesting.

The Machinehood Manifesto itself, and its consequences, were quite interesting to think about too. SB Divya really thought through an alternative (and more complex) take on robots than the 3 Laws of Robotics.

Dennis E. Taylor, Ray Porter: All These Worlds (AudiobookFormat, 2017, Audible Studios on Brilliance, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio)

"Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space …

I've been enjoying all the scifi references, particularly in the planet naming and city names.

The Bobiverse series feel like quite a different take on space opera, but there's some tendency in the Bobs to be quite "white saviory", and that seems to be addressed in this book (when they get exhausted with all the saving).