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Read widely, but mainly science fiction, which I also write.
I'm also at @whitmad@wandering.shop and @whitmad@paper.wf
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David Whitmarsh reviewed The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of …
Review of "The Shepherd's Life" on 'Goodreads'
1 star
David Whitmarsh rated One Day All This Will Be Yours: 3 stars
One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Welcome to the end of time. It’s a perfect day.
Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there’s no-one …
David Whitmarsh rated The Better Part of Valor: 2 stars
The Better Part of Valor by Tanya Huff (Valor Confederation, #2)
Telling a two-star general what she really thought of him was the mistake Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr made with General …
David Whitmarsh rated Sleeping Giants: 2 stars
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (The Themis Files, #1)
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through …
David Whitmarsh rated Project Hail Mary: 4 stars
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
David Whitmarsh rated Red Rising: 1 star
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow …
David Whitmarsh reviewed 克拉拉与太阳 by Kazuo Ishiguro
克拉拉是一个专为陪伴儿童而设计的太阳能人工智能机器人（AF），具有极高的观察、推理与共情能力。她坐在商店展示橱窗里，注视着街头路人以及前来浏览橱窗的孩子们的一举一动。她始终期待着很快就会有人挑中她，不过，当这种永久改变境遇的可能性出现时，克拉拉却被提醒不要过分相信人类的诺言。
在《克拉拉与太阳》这部作品中，石黑一雄通过一位令人难忘的叙述者的视角，观察千变万化的现代社会，探索了一个根本性的问题：究竟什么是爱？
Review of '克拉拉与太阳' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Couldnt't believe the characters' behaviour. All of them just content to accept and support Klara's actions without question, making a story that just does not work for me.
David Whitmarsh rated The Diamond Age: 1 star
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)
Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth …
David Whitmarsh rated Redemption in Indigo: 3 stars
David Whitmarsh rated Natives: 5 stars
David Whitmarsh rated Binti: 3 stars
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Binti, #1)
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at …
David Whitmarsh rated V2: A Novel of World War II: 5 stars
David Whitmarsh rated The Thursday Murder Club: 2 stars
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club, #1)
Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room …
David Whitmarsh rated Kindred: 5 stars
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The book is the first-person account of a young African-American woman writer, Dana, who finds herself being shunted in time …