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Let's start the 2025 favourites recaps with my favourite genre: sci-fi.
Top row = best of the best,
Middle row = more robot-forward picks,
Bottom row= sci-fi horror and sci-fi mystery

Cute horror and snarky AI combine to create this weird, wild adventure. The book is funny and entertaining, and I can picture it as a movie. The spaceship itself is enlisted in the fight against evil monsters. Ya gotta love it!

We each open a gift on Little Christmas Eve (today), tradition husband brought from Norway. This book is from my husband. One of only 1250 copies from first American edition in 1978, signed by the author and the artist. Husband just rocks!!

Our favorite monsters on a spaceship in the future. The AI on the ship, Demeter saves the day. Weirdly good and I loved it. Not for everyone unless you love to read something new. Dracula, the Werewolf, Frankenstein, the mummy all make appearances. 🧛🧛🧛🧛

I had no idea what this book would be when I picked it up but it turned out to be everything I wanted.
When it comes to genre distribution I think it's an even split between sci-fi and horror with a sprinkle of fantasy. I adore the writing, how the multiple POVs and time jumps were expressed via the formatting, the sci fi twists on classic horror/adventure figures, the banter, the occasional dark humour, the emotional heart, 1/?

#wordoftheday

I didn‘t know the second “e” was silent

“Several hundred boats joined the cortège of the river, and almost the entire town participated in the funeral procession that followed the coffin, which was carried by eight sea-captains, up the steps to the grave…. Lucy herself, pleaded to attend the funeral, otherwise I would not have liked to suggest it, fearing it would upset her, and she also wished us to sit on our usual bench and…⬇️

The black hound that jumped from the Demeter and ran through the Whitby Cemetery

The Demeter. From the log-book of the Schooner Demeter (Varna to Whitby).

Merciless. 💅🏻😈😁

To be fair, I feel like that's Steward's default position. 🙄😏