stinkingpig rated Mote in God's Eye: 5 stars
Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven, Larry Pournelle
Science fiction classic about the rise, fall and subsequent rise of a civilization where the peak catastrophe is known as …
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stinkingpig rated Lucifer's Hammer: 5 stars
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Lucifer's Hammer is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1977. It was …
stinkingpig rated The death of grass: 5 stars
The death of grass by John Christopher (Sphere popular classics)
stinkingpig rated The Raven Tower: 5 stars
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Listen. A god is speaking. My voice echoes through the stone of your master's castle. The castle where he finds …
stinkingpig rated Valuable Humans in Transit: 5 stars
Valuable Humans in Transit by qntm
qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium. His works start from elegant, deep hypotheticals and wind …
stinkingpig rated The Manager's Path: 5 stars
The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at it. Tech …
stinkingpig rated Ancient Light; A Sequel to Golden Witchbreed: 3 stars
stinkingpig rated Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law: 4 stars
stinkingpig rated Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands: 5 stars
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, there was Katie Beaton of …
stinkingpig rated Throne of Jade: 4 stars
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik (Temeraire, #2)
Captain Will Laurence and his noble dragon Temeraire battle against Bonaparte's invading forces. When China discovers that their rare gift, …
stinkingpig rated His Majesty's Dragon: 4 stars
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (Temeraire, #1)
His Majesty's Dragon, published in the UK as Temeraire, is the first novel in the Temeraire alternate history/fantasy series by …
stinkingpig rated A Half-Built Garden: 4 stars
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. …
stinkingpig rated Hexarchate Stories: 2 stars
Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee (The Machineries of Empire, #3.5)
The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit.
An ex-Kel art thief has to save the …
stinkingpig rated Trafalgar: 4 stars
Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer
Nobody knows if Trafalgar Medrano actually travels to the stars, but whenever he is in town he stretches his stories …
stinkingpig rated Sea of Tranquility: 5 stars
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …