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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

August 14, 2020April 12, 2020

Persepolis Rising – James S. A. Corey

The Expanse books often focus on aspects of the story that I just can’t seem to care about.

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Fiction, History, War  0 Comments

July 31, 2020July 9, 2020

All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

What is a war story? What is an anti-war story?

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Alternate History, Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  2 Comments

July 17, 2020July 2, 2020

Pavane – Keith Roberts

This might be the most well-written book I disliked reading.

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Fiction, Historical Fiction  0 Comments

July 3, 2020July 1, 2020

The Atheist in the Attic – Samuel R Delany

What does it mean when you are struggling with a book that, by all descriptions, you should easily love?

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Fiction, Horror  1 Comment

June 19, 2020June 6, 2020

The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker

For a person who doesn’t care much for horror, I rather enjoyed this.

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Fantasy, Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

June 5, 2020April 27, 2020

The Expert System’s Brother – Adrian Tchaikovsky

There is a lot buried in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Expert System’s Brother’

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Epic, Fiction, Mythology, Poetry  0 Comments

April 24, 2020March 29, 2020

The Aeneid – Virgil – Robert Fitzgerald (translator)

Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

April 10, 2020December 28, 2019

Speaker of the Dead – Orson Scott Card

Speaker for the Dead won me over, despite a slow start.

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Fiction, Satire, Science-Fiction, Surrealism  0 Comments

March 27, 2020December 19, 2019

The Snail on the Slope – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Every read something and feel like your education really wasn’t up to the task of understanding it?

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Europe, Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

March 13, 2020November 27, 2019

Space Opera – Catherine M. Valente

Exuberance! is a stylistic choice.

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