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underground_bks
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A must for fans of Becky Chambers and Murderbot, this affirming, funny, anti-capitalist sci-fi follows Scout, an archivist in a barren universe where Earth is the last civilization. Along with their brother and cat, they search for messages left behind from dead civilizations, seeking information to stop the end of our own. Cozy, yet action-packed and soulful, this book had me saying: “This is the perfect moment. This one is. This one is.”

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jdiehr
Polaris Rising: A Novel | Jessie Mihalik
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I love it when Romance Book Club assigns a book that I would never pick up on my own, and I end up loving it 😁

Turns out I don't mind a space opera with a hot bad boy love interest.

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Brooke_H
Leviathan Wakes | James S.A. Corey
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This is a dual-timeline space opera involving politics, war, a very noir-style mystery, and stellar (lol space joke) characters who I really just cared about way too much. This is like if Firefly had been written by Arthur C Clarke. I also think horror fans would enjoy this book; I‘ll say that without giving too much away, but there is some dark and creepy stuff happening here. I can‘t wait to get to the second one.

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jdiehr
Polaris Rising: A Novel | Jessie Mihalik
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AnnCrystal Hopefully it is worth the extra effort 📚👏🏼🐝👍🏼🤩🐝💝. 2w
JenlovesJT47 Ooh sounds intriguing! ♥️♥️♥️ 2w
dabbe Looks like fun! 💛💫🖤 2w
lil1inblue I'm intrigued! I don't think I've read a space opera. ✨🌟 ✨ 2w
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Mattsbookaday
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The Last Gifts of the Universe, by Riley August (2024)
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Premise: Two young humans and their intrepid cat Pumpkin search the universe for messages from long-extinct alien species, but are up against an evil corporation who wants to keep any discoveries behind their paywalls.

Review: This was a bit rough around the edges; even at ~200 pages it felt repetitive and plodding in places, and there are plot points that didn‘t feel ‘right‘. ⬇️

Mattsbookaday But wthere‘s a big heart here. It stares down despair and cynicism and resists them with all the power two humans and a cat can muster, and offers some beautifully-written and genuine reflections on grief and loss. So, in the end I enjoyed this quite a bit, but if you need your plots to cohere perfectly, you might want to give it a pass. 3w
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Rhee tore a path through the bustling marketplace, kicking up dust that fell slowly in Nau Fruma‘s low gravity. The foreign tourists coughed and complained as she passed, but Rhee ignored them, scanning the fairgrounds for Julian as she clutched his miniature telescope to her chest.
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Paradise | Craig Alanson
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Skippy, the alien beer can, as usual, steals the show.

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Ruthiella
A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine
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This was a slow burn, politically plotted SciFi and I thought it was great. Lots of intrigue within fantastic world building.

Mahit Dzmare is caught between her love for Teixcalaanli language and literature as ambassador to that Empire and her understanding that she will never be accepted as anything more than other and her fear that the Empire will annex her own culture and community, thereby erasing it.

My second #roll100 for July.

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clairemac
The Algebraist | Iain M. Banks
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This is the first Banks book I‘ve read, and I am really glad I started with it. I didn‘t have to commit to the entire Culture series, but The Algebraist did give me a (prolonged, 500+ page) taste of his writing style, character arcs, world building etc.