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esurient A Host of Leeches (James Alan Gardner). Mild pick. I've enjoyed Gardner's writing before, and I love his worldbuilding, but this was too ya-ish 'Defeat our foes with the power of moral friendship.' 7y
esurient For much of the story I had genuinely expected the symbiotic AI to be the story villain. And it seemed a big waste to draw zero parallels between the symbiotes and the alien parasites. 7y
esurient A Strand in the Web (Anne Bishop). Strong pick. Fun blurred line between the concept of environmentalism and the concept of religion. Excellent strong ending. Had to deliberately not think to hard about how the science of it all worked. 7y
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esurient Stranded (Anthony Francis). Bail. I strongly disliked another book by this author, so my proportional dislike here may not be surprising. 7y
esurient Still. A couple chapters in, we have several scenes of male assault on captive females, stated threat to gang rape and/or breed, and some all-around hateful gender warefare. I get the impression they'll be spending the story joining into a cohesive whole, and I really just want their spaceship to explode. 7y
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