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termie rated Battle royale: 3 stars
Battle royale by Kōshun Takami, Kōshun Takami (Battle Royale (1))
Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of junior high school students is taken to a …
termie reviewed Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven
Science fiction classic about the rise, fall and subsequent rise of a civilization where the …
Review of "Mote in God's Eye" on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
termie reviewed The four thousand, the eight hundred by Greg Egan
Camille is desperate to escape her home on colonized asteroid Vesta, journeying through space in …
Review of 'The four thousand, the eight hundred' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A larger story shown through a petite lens and delivered just so
termie rated The Freeze-Frame Revolution: 4 stars
The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
"How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when …
termie rated Shadow Captain: 4 stars
Alastair Reynolds: Shadow Captain (2019, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)
Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds
Bosa Sennen was a scourge of merchants and traders alike. A pirate who struck from the darkness, showed no mercy, …
termie rated A World Out of Time.: 2 stars
Larry Niven: A World Out of Time. (1991, Del Rey)
A World Out of Time. by Larry Niven
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else\'s body, and under sentence of …
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
"A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- …
Review of 'Axiomatic' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
As imaginative as Greg Egan is known for, but reads like so many twilight zone plots
termie rated Through the arc of the rain forest: 2 stars
termie rated Europe at Midnight: 5 stars
Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
In a fractured Europe, new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight.
For an intelligence officer like Jim, it’s …
termie rated Europe in Autumn: 5 stars
termie rated The Will to Battle: 5 stars
The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #3)
The Will to Battle is the third book of John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series, a …
termie rated Seven Surrenders: 5 stars
Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #2)
From 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner, Ada Palmer, the second book of Terra Ignota, a political science fiction epic …
