David Whitmarsh rated A Memory Called Empire: 3 stars
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
A Memory Called Empire is a 2019 science fiction novel, the debut novel by Arkady Martine. It follows Mahit Dzmare, …
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David Whitmarsh rated Exhalation: 5 stars
David Whitmarsh rated Second Shift: 3 stars
David Whitmarsh rated Revelation Space: 4 stars
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space, #1)
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin.
For the humans now settling the Amarantin homeworld, it's of …
David Whitmarsh rated Wool: 4 stars
Wool by Hugh Howey
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a …
David Whitmarsh rated Gravity's Rainbow: 1 star
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb …
David Whitmarsh rated The black dahlia: 2 stars
David Whitmarsh rated We Are Legion (We Are Bob): 3 stars
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse, #1)
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places …
David Whitmarsh rated Playback: 4 stars
Playback by Raymond Chandler
Playback is a novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. It was first published in …
David Whitmarsh rated Golden State: 3 stars
David Whitmarsh rated The Children of the Sky: 3 stars
The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Zones of thought series)
"Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a …
David Whitmarsh rated Station Eleven: 3 stars
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of …
David Whitmarsh rated Pattern recognition: 4 stars
Pattern recognition by William Gibson, William F. Gibson (duplicate) (Blue Ant, #1)
One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with …
David Whitmarsh rated Footfall: 4 stars
Footfall by Larry Niven
Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The book depicts the arrival …
David Whitmarsh rated George Orwell Boxed Set (1984 and Animal Farm): 4 stars
George Orwell Boxed Set (1984 and Animal Farm) by George Orwell
Contains:
- Animal Farm
- Nineteen Eighty-Four