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Cory Doctorow: Radicalized (2019, Tor Books) 4 stars

rom New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of …

Prescient

5 stars

Prescient. Hard to put it another way. Published in 2019, and not extrapolating that far, Radicalized hits hard. Even though the novellas each end somewhat optimistically, it is hard to not be moved by them. And they're really, really uncomfortably close to reality. Glimpses of the fall of the american empire.

Andrzej Sapkowski: Wiedźmin. Rozdroże kruków (superNOWA) 4 stars

Oto słowa Proroka: zaprawdę powiadam wam, że nastanie chaos w wielu miejscach i ogień często …

Czy jest to spijanie śmietanki i zbieranie tantiem przez starszego wiekiem pisarza? A jakże. Czy jest na poziomie Sagi o Wiedźminie? No weź wyjdź. Ale jest zdecydowanie lepsze od Sezonu Burz. Warto przeczytać, jeśli jesteś fanem - historia pierwszego roku Geralta na szlaku.

Jest trochę puszczania oka do graczy, jest nieco naśmiewania się z serialu Netfliksa. Gryzie trochę rozmiar - to bardziej długie opowiadanie, niż krótka książka, w oryginalnej cenie wydania musiało to drażnić.

W każdym razie, udany powrót do historii z (dla mnie) nastoletniości, podkolorowany na pewno sentymentem do Sagi.

reviewed Blood of tyrants by Naomi Novik (The Temeraire series)

Naomi Novik: Blood of tyrants (2013) 4 stars

Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences …

Review of 'Blood of tyrants' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

It's a minor peeve, but it irks me every time I hear it: unlike in English, words in Latin are gendered. "Excidium" is neuter gender (not ungendered!) and it is jarring having it applied to a male dragon - the suffix -um applies to inanimate things. Not male dragons.

I could ignore this one for the sake of an English captain not knowing any better - but then there's "Eroica"! Named by a Prussian captain - when German also assigns gender to all words and such a mistake just could not happen. The word "eroica" is feminine-gendered and, again, is used as a name for a male dragon. Ugh.