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Since she was three …
It is a whole lot of things, but I like the thoughts about identity and how offended people are when you don't fit their notion of what you are.
It is a whole lot of things, but I like the thoughts about identity and how offended people are when you don't fit their notion of what you are.
It finally feels like a good story set within this universe. But there is still no explanation as to why there must be colonizing.
The whole book feels like an teenager pretending to be deep and trying to write a philosophical story. But at least this book starts to touch on the interstellar politics.
The whole book feels like an teenager pretending to be deep and trying to write a philosophical story. But at least this book starts to touch on the interstellar politics.
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about …
The first two thirds of the book feel like a plotless military story, i guess some people might like that sort of thing. But to me it felt kinda pointless. Yet overall it feels like the world building and character development was necessary, but there didn't feel like there was a pay off at the end. I hope a future book answers some of the motivations, they never answer the question as to why humans are colonizing, leaving a bad taste for me, as if the assumption is that humans must by default be colonizers.
The first two thirds of the book feel like a plotless military story, i guess some people might like that sort of thing. But to me it felt kinda pointless. Yet overall it feels like the world building and character development was necessary, but there didn't feel like there was a pay off at the end. I hope a future book answers some of the motivations, they never answer the question as to why humans are colonizing, leaving a bad taste for me, as if the assumption is that humans must by default be colonizers.
Autonomous features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her …
Overall plot is good, concepts and world are good. Some of the characters are kinda cringe. The last couple chapters are too heavy handed.
Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always …
But still great. Easy read, felt balanced.
A stand-alone adventure set in the world of Ancillary Justice. Ingray has just one chance …
Stuff happens, but arguably the politics don't move much at all, which is probably fine, but feels like it dwells alot on it for nothing to happen in the end.
Stuff happens, but arguably the politics don't move much at all, which is probably fine, but feels like it dwells alot on it for nothing to happen in the end.
Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his …
everything is described 3+ times, in a stilted convoluted non-linear fashion with random unnecessary scene changes. And it really only picks up the pace in the third act. It is like this was a short story padded out to be novel length.
Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated …
It captures this nihilism that I feel.
But the last quarter of the book gets real wonky and ham fisted
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
each part is ok, but it feels disjoint and jarring between parts, the time spans seem too long and the contractual motivations don't feel right.
each part is ok, but it feels disjoint and jarring between parts, the time spans seem too long and the contractual motivations don't feel right.
This series is really only good because of the cats.
Still confusing, but near the end it get really vague and the pacing is different imo.
Some parts were confusing, otherwise a straightforward action/thriller type story. Bland.
Child of two species, but part of neither, a new being must find his way. …
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An ok book, but it really doesn't address the settler colonialism and genocide, at all.
The second book in the Lilith's Brood trilogy, this story takes place years after the …
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Also a good book.
The reveal that the planet would be eventually depleted changes the balance from the first book. But it doesn't feel retconned