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Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Kirkus and Literary Hub
The …
This book was certainly fun and contained a handful of interesting ideas. However, I was missing a coherent throughline to the book. It really just draws a lot of analogies and relates separate things (often in very interesting ways). Especially if you don't follow 'tech politics' as obsessively as I do, you might find a lot of fun (and depressing) things in here.
Thomas Senlin and his crew have been separated following the orders of the mysterious Sphinx. …
Lots and lots of great character moments. I love this series!
Science fiction and East Asian myth combine in this dazzling retelling of the rise of …
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This book is both extremely angry and extremely edgy. Also a very pure powerfantasy (the character goes from pushed around by her family to essentially empress of the whole area). Nonetheless very fun.
Warmaster Horus leads the Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III, but the …
Forced by necessity into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew struggle to …
This book is so much fun! An excellent sequel. Many exciting world building reveals, some nice character development and chemistry. What more can you ask for?
Hesse’s most highly acclaimed book, The Glass Bead Game is set in a fictional state …
Even though it took me a long time to read, I really enjoyed this one. It essentially revolves around living immersed in academia/in the ivory tower and the personal and ethical questions that come with it. This, of course, is pretty closely related to what I'm currently doing. The language is really nice as well.
From the award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Broken Angels--a turbocharged new thriller set in …
The most enjoyable aspect of this book is that it takes place in a world where all aspects of corporate culture have been taken to absurd extremes. Apart from that, it is Richard Morgan's usual bleak and violent vision of the future that I have come to love.
Sequel to Shadow Captain.
Compared to the previous book, the pace picks up a bit. By the end, most of the hanging threads get tied up somewhere.
Bosa Sennen was a scourge of merchants and traders alike. A pirate who struck from …
Tens of millions of years in the future, sisters Adrana and Arafura ('Fura') Ness are …
The book is quite fun. Sailing in space is a shockingly sound concept. The most surprising aspect of this book is that it is very British, both in the language the characters use but especially the made up future slang. Very fun!
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the …
I originally picked this up because the tag-line looked like this book would be about Roko's basilisk. While this is technically not wrong, the concept really just plays a world building role (like FTL travel and ansible communication) rather being the focal point of the story. It is not even explained, just implied and the reader is expected to know about it already.
The main theme of the story are cosmic horrors and the relationship between science and spiritualism, done in a very interesting way. It should be noted that although this is about cosmic horrors, it is not at all scary. Overall, it was not at all what I was expecting but nonetheless very nice!
ONE OF THE MAJOR POST-WORLD WAR II EUROPEAN WORKS OF LITERATURE AND AN INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER …
This is quite different from what I usually read but I liked it a lot. It's just very funny in the beginning, later on it gets a little more dramatic. The only criticism that I have is that the book is ~700 pages of buildup for ~100 pages of payoff, but that seems to be by design.
ONE OF THE MAJOR POST-WORLD WAR II EUROPEAN WORKS OF LITERATURE AND AN INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER …
I'm reading the German translation of this (the original is Dutch).