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Will

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Joined 2 years ago

A numbers geek reading SFF to maintain some hope in this world.

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Stars and Bones (Paperback, 2022, Titan Books)
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Paperback, 2019, Tor)
Star Trek : Designing the Final Frontier (Hardcover, 2021, Weldon Owen)

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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (2017, Simon & Schuster)
The House of Styx (2021, Solaris)

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Shards of Earth (Paperback, 2021, Tor Books)
Jade City (2017)
The Expert System's Brother (2018, Tor.com)

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started reading The House of Styx by Derek Künsken

The House of Styx (2021, Solaris) 3 stars

The first in a ground breaking new science fiction series from the best-selling author of …

I'm a little under halfway and have encountered a couple things I wasn't expecting. First, it is radically different from its sibling series, The Quantum Evolution. Second, there is a gender identity story here and it is being told extremely well up to this point. Any time I think I understand Derek Künsken he shows me how wrong I am.

reviewed System Collapse by Martha Wells

System Collapse (Hardcover, 2023, Tordotcom) 4 stars

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.

Following the events in …

I may be reaching my limit with this series

3 stars

This will probably be the unpopular minority opinion, but here goes...

This book was still enjoyable, but the first half was extremely slow. It picked up once we got into the action, but it was somewhat more subtle this time around. There is nothing wrong with the book, but it feels like Wells thinks she needs to do more to evolve this character, but doesn't really know what, so we just get tiny bits.

reviewed Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Starter Villain (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 stars

Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.

Sure, there …

Go into it with no expectation except fun

4 stars

Like most Scalzi books this is a great story and a lot of fun. If you want some escapism then you've come to the right place. If you're looking for something deeper, this will not be satisfying at all.