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Literally every collected volume is five stars. The story, characters, and art are just perfection. Relatable and relevant. Anxiously awaiting volume 13!

Daisey I need to catch up on these again! 6h

britt_brooke @Daisey Yesss! 6h

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Moonbound: A Novel | Robin Sloan

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Thousands of years into our future, an AI bonds w/ a young boy who is only trying to survive in his small town w/ his brother. & then the local wizard tries to force a specific story into happening.

I LOVE stealthy retellings. Arthurian characters get thrown into a blender w/ post apocalyptic science fantasy elements + your basic quest storyline. The pacing got a little wonky in the middle, but I loved Ariel & all the side characters.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

BookmarkTavern Filing in Storygraph under my Power of Stories tag 😁 7h

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Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy | Martha Wells

The first 2 episodes are available on Apple TV!!

I am pleasantly surprised. I am enjoying it! It seems to be sticking pretty close to the book, and it is very funny (in a very dry/ perfect for me way).

I am actually really excited to continue watching! I had a lot of reservations going in, and new shows off beloved books can be really hard. But so far I am giving this a 1.5 👍

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Mitch

Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy | Martha Wells

Dipping in to this today! 🤞🏼
Has anyone watched it?

julesG I'm waiting a few weeks. Better for binging and cheaper 😉 2d

CogsOfEncouragement Thanks for the reminder! 2d

AmyG My husband goes out-of-town on Sunday ….so I will begin that night. Very excited. 2d

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Lesliereadsalot It‘s on my radar! 2d

CatLass007 Love the books. I‘m hesitant about the series but I‘ll probably watch it eventually. 2d

HeyT I absolutely adore the books but this is definitely different from them although it hits some of the same tones and snark. I‘m cautiously watching. The Sanctuary Moon clips are worth it though. So OTT (edited) 2d

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Sailor Moon 7 (Naoko Takeuchi Collection) | Naoko Takeuchi

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kwmg40

Moonbound: A Novel | Robin Sloan

so-so

I loved Sloan's earlier books but there was too much going on here for my tastes. I enjoy books featuring space travel, magic, AI, Arthurian themes and dragons, but not all at once. There were lots of clever moments but I found the book too chaotic.

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PuddleJumper That's a shame! 3d

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Where the Axe Is Buried: A Novel | Ray Nayler

so-so

I want to champion this book for the messaging it put front and centre but I'm hampered by a few factors, some of which are subjective:
1) Something about the pacing had me regularly courting a reading slump. Following multiple people can sometimes ensure you don't end up with deadspace in the plot, and sometimes it means that the reader constantly feels like none of the storylines are moving as fluidly as they should 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? (not the same as skillfully building tension). I think I wouldn't have had the sense that things should have moved faster if I wasn't waiting for something to happen for three or four characters at once.
2) I think there has to be a balance when a book is both sci fi and social commentary (as often as those two are paired together), otherwise, we'd be better off with a non-fiction essay collection. Perhaps I'm biased by the impact of the 4d

Robotswithpersonality 3/? recently read, superb, One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad and On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, contrasted with my negative reaction to also recently read Playground by Richard Powers, but an endless refrain on the bad of the world, especially aided by AI technology, making most characters suffer (arguably with slightly more hope at the end of this one) is not apparently the most useful way to deliver the message to me 4d

Robotswithpersonality 4/? I think perhaps I'm cautionary tale-d out.
3) A related, additional critique, it's hard to do a book that's covering both the risks inherent in artificial intelligence, in increasing our reliance on technology, alongside concerns about the latest rise in authoritarianism and the surveillance state. For me, it ends up feeling like you didn't give either issue your full attention. And while Nayler did his best to present a harrowing future, 4d

Robotswithpersonality 5/? , when you've read We the Living and 1984...I've already hit my personal threshold for poignancy of human misery related to the latter topics in fiction, and I didn't need more. 4d

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 There are some innovations in the sci-fi future tech introduced, but overall this had the flavour of something I've read before, that I found more impactful in an earlier iteration. I'm sure it will find its audience with others who may have encountered the concerns presented less often, or are now encountering it in a way that speaks to them more directly. 4d

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Moonbound: A Novel | Robin Sloan

Arthurian retelling?!? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

BookmarkTavern ARTHURIAN RETELLING 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 5d

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Darwinia: A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century | Robert Charles Wilson

This is one of the strangest SFF books I've read in many a moon. I'm not sure what I think of it. It morphs about halfway through from a fairly straight up alt history to a sort of SFF/Sci Fi mix.

I'm glad I read it and I'll be thinking about it for awhile.

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Sailor Moon 6 (Naoko Takeuchi Collection) | Naoko Takeuchi