Best SciFi I've read since maybe the Martian or Seveneves. Great world building. Great characters. Not a page turner. I didn't hurry through, but it provoked a lot of thinking.
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Tom Goetz commented on Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter
Tom Goetz reviewed Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #1)
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space …
Review of 'Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Classic space opera.
Tom Goetz rated Day of Fallen Night: 3 stars
Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none …
Tom Goetz rated The Peripheral: 4 stars
The Peripheral by William Gibson (unspecified) (Jackpot, #1)
William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010’s New York Times–bestselling Zero History.
Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, …
Tom Goetz reviewed Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (Malazan, #1)
Dark forces gather in the Malazan Empire as Empress Laseen, malevolent ruler, turns her attention …
Review of 'Gardens of the Moon' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Reads like book three of a litrpg series. Names, places, and concepts all pile on with no background or explanation. Lots of contradictions.
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them …
Tom Goetz rated Dark Matter: 3 stars
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is …
Tom Goetz rated Of blood and bone: 2 stars
Of blood and bone by Nora Roberts (Chronicles of the One -- book 2)
"They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces …
Year One by Nora Roberts
"It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within …
Tom Goetz rated The Dispossessed: 3 stars
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #6)
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
Tom Goetz reviewed A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore (Grim Reaper, #1)
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a …
Review of 'A Dirty Job' on 'Goodreads'
I got about 10 pages in. It was kinda funny, but the phrase “beta-male” had appeared on about every other page, so I asked my reader and it told me “beta-male” appeared 100s of times in the book. That was it for me.
Tom Goetz rated Gameboard of the Gods: 3 stars
Gameboard of the Gods by Richelle Mead
In a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March lives in exile after failing in his job as …
Tom Goetz rated Termination Shock: 4 stars
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
Termination Shock takes readers on a thrilling, chilling visit to our not-too-distant future – a world in which the greenhouse …