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Summerland
Summerland | Hannu Rajaniemi
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An awe-inspiring account of the afterlife and what happens when it spills over into the world of the living. The new novel from the most exciting new voice in the genre since Neal Stephenson. Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased. Yet Britain isn't the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology to build their own god. When SIS agent Rachel White gets a lead on one of the Soviet moles, blowing the whistle puts her hard-earned career at risk. The spy has friends in high places, and she will have to go rogue to bring him in. But how do you catch a man who's already dead?
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Lucy_Anywhere
Summerland | Hannu Rajaniemi
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#TBRPile 📚 “Rachel White flung the cab door open, tossed the driver a banknote and dived into the rain.”

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RamsFan1963
Summerland | Hannu Rajaniemi
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description or reason for wanting to read the book. Some are old and some will be new. Don't judge me - I have a lot of books.
Day 248

#tbrmountain #bookbuyingdiet

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RamsFan1963
Summerland | Hannu Rajaniemi
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My order from myscificlub.com finally came in the mail, late because of...you know the f'ed up mess at the postal service. I'm still waiting on a package from discoverbooks.com, which according to tracking number, has been sitting in Toledo since 12/29.

Suet624 Don‘t get me started. So many of my packages, mailed weeks before Christmas, are “in transit”. DeJoy and his removal of sorting machines. 🙄 (edited) 4y
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rachelsbrittain
Summerland | Hannu Rajaniemi
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Books: 12

Pages: 3,221

Longest: City of Bones (485)

Shortest: Hex Vet: Witches in Training (80)

Favorites: The Deep, Wicked Fox, The Weight of Our Sky, and American Hippo

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rachelsbrittain
Summerland | Hannu Rajaniemi
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Set in an alternate 1930s England after the discovery of an afterlife dimension--Summerland--& the vast array of ecto-technology that goes along with it. Rachel works for the Winter Court, an intelligence agency whose counterpart, the Summer Court, has been infiltrated by a mole. Unfortunately, no one believes her. A highly inventive alternate history. A bit convoluted & confusing at times, but a very interesting read.

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rachelsbrittain
Summerland | Hannu Rajaniemi
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New month, new tbr

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rachelsbrittain
Summerland | Hannu Rajaniemi
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Audio dog walking (and an appropriately titled book for the heat 😂)

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imyril
Summerland | Hannu Rajaniemi
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I‘m making no headway with Summerland. I like the basic idea and the writing is great but there‘s a lot going on with very little context. I usually love incidental world building, but I forgot that I don‘t love Cold War spy thrillers so I just found everything Much Too Hard. Maybe another day. Or maybe I‘ll try a different Rajaniemi first.

BookwormM I really enjoyed I Still Dream 6y
imyril @BookwormM I‘m liking it a lot so far :) 6y
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ctboeheim
Summerland | Hannu Rajaniemi
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Hannu Rajaniemi imagines a world that diverged from our own, not into the brass technology of steampunk, but into a world where the dead can be communicated with by Marconi's devices, a world of ectophones, ectotanks, and spirit cages.

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Mentallofilth
Summerland | Hannu Rajaniemi
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Mehso-so

A solid fantasy spy-thriller set in a world where Great Britain has colonized and monetized the afterlife, but it was a bit too blunt and emotionally disconnected. For me, the choice to reveal the mole to the audience early on really negated a lot of the tension, and so much of the book had to be carried with solid characters and inventive worldbuilding. Flawed, but intriguing.

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