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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 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
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
Past the dreadful 50'sisms what a clever and engaging idea
Past the dreadful 50'sisms what a clever and engaging idea
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
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 (duplicate)
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, …
termie rated Europe in Autumn: 5 stars
termie rated The Will to Battle: 5 stars
The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- book 3)
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. …
termie rated Seven Surrenders: 5 stars
Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- book II)
"It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now …
termie rated The Obelisk Gate: 5 stars
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #2)
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization …