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Three | Kristen Simmons

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Final book in the Article 5 series. I really enjoyed this series and its conclusion. I am truly surprised this series wasn‘t more popular as it came out at the height of YA dystopian. 4 🌟

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kelli7990

The Future | Naomi Alderman

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Here‘s my review.

#hailthebail

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random_michelle

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

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For comfort, I recently reread the entire Murderbot series.

I finished the last book and wanted to immediately start the first one over.

“I closed the story by reflex, like that would make it not exist. After three seconds of shock, I made myself open it again.“

“Disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name, is the top tactic in corporate negotiation/warfare.“

julesG There's another novella

System Collapse

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ImperfectCJ

The Age of Miracles | Karen Thompson Walker

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I'm giving this one a so-so rating. The characters are interesting, but I live in the part of the country where this story is set, and some inconsistencies bother me (the assertion that hawks don't live in the suburbs when they so do, the common existence of daily school buses in a place where bus service is rare). Also, I don't really get why plants can't grow because there's not enough light when there are still equal amounts of light and dark.

jen_the_scribe I live in a pretty suburban area and just witnessed a hawk fighting a garden snake right in front of my house a few weeks ago lol 18h

AmyG @jen_the_scribe Isn‘t it wild? When we moved to Colorado I saw a hawk flying with a snake in it‘s beak. 18h

jen_the_scribe @AmyG Yeah it was. We took a video of it lol 17h

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majkia

Babylon's Ashes | James S A Corey

My favorite of the series. All the elements come together in a terrific space opera. Great characters, twists and turns, complex plot, and of course terrific world building.

#Doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! now

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The Rest of the Robots | Isaac Asimov

In his Introduction, Asimov makes the following inaccurate prediction about AI:

"If robots are so advanced that they can mimic the thought processes of human beings, then surely the nature of those thought processes will be designed by human engineers and built-in safeguard will be added."

Bookwomble That word "surely" reads poignantly. I guess Isaac didn't account for megalomaniacal billionaire tech-bros who would happily burn the world if there's a financial profit in it for them. 23h

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Bookwomble

The Rest of the Robots | Isaac Asimov

I tend to read a lot of sci-fi, but 2024 seems to be a bumper year for it!

I read "I, Robot" earlier this year, so here I go with the follow up collection. ? v.2.0

The_Book_Ninja I need a re-read of that too. It‘s been so long 2h

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Bookwomble

Ringworld | Larry Niven

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#ClassicLSFBC @Ruthiella @RamsFan1963
I first read Ringworld when I was 12, and it's been a favourite novel in a favourite sci fi universe ever since, so I really enjoyed this revisit to one of the galaxy's most amazing structures.
The Ringworld itself dominates the story. Niven tried to make it as scientifically credible as possible, having to conjure "magical" materials to create his vision, but that's the "fiction" part of SciFi. Famously, ⬇️

Bookwomble ...he got a lot of the physics wrong and his fans 'kindly' pointed out his errors, so he corrected later editions, but felt compelled to write the sequel, Ringworld Engineers, to address those problems he couldn't retro-fix.
Louis Wu and Nessus had featured in earlier stories in the Known Space universe, Teela Brown and Speaker-to-Animals introduced in this one, and all four returning for the Ringworld sequels. I have a soft spot for Nessus, ⬇️ 1d

Bookwomble ... the mad puppeteer, a representative of a carefully thought out alien species that contains individuals who aren't just copies of a type. Of course, the tigerish Kzinti are magnificent and will be amazing if they are ever translated to the screen (Star Trek, the Animated Series notwithstanding).
The sexism is typical for the early'70s, and I think earlier ClassicLSFBK books have been as bad, if not worse (The Forever War and The Stars My ⬇️ 1d

Bookwomble ... Destination). Most noticeable to me this time round were the attitudes of compulsory sexuality and allonormativity, with celibacy and asexuality being so outside Niven's comfort zone he had to allocate those traits to non-human species. (Thank you, if you read this far! 🙏🥲) 1d

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MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Great review! I was thinking how amazing seeing this adapted to screen would be. All the visuals Niven gives would be stunning to see done well. 🤩 I took the narrow view of sexuality as more a Wu problem than a Niven problem, but I‘m beginning to think I was mistaken. 😅 1d

Bookwomble @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Thank you 😊 Ringworld has been optioned several times, but never made it to screen so far. I think it's currently owned by Amazon, but their 2017 announcement hasn't led to anything yet 🫤 Perhaps the success of Dune will be a motivator. 1d

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Ah, Amazon‘s adaptations have been hit or miss (sadly mostly miss) for me. I hope if they do decide to do something with it that they do a good job. 🤞 23h

Bookwomble @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm I liked the first season of The Man in the High Castle, but lost interest part way through the second. Despite (or probably because of) my love for Town, I have up on The Rings of Power after a few episodes. I have to say that I struggle to find anything on Prime that I want to watch. It seems they throw money at spectacle but not on story. 23h

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm The only adaptation I loved so far was Fallout (the only reason we even have Prime still 😅). I haven‘t the heart to even attempt Rings of Power. 😔 I need to check out The Man in the High Castle (book and show). 22h

Bookwomble @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm I might give Fallout a try, then. I've not played the game, but have a general idea of it. Naturally, I'd recommend reading TMITHC first, then watching the show. It has an interesting narrative structure, as it features the Chinese divination sheen of the I Ching, and when he got to a plot turn, PKD cast for his he should take it. 🔮 22h

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Fallout does a great job of making it so that someone could fully understand it without ever having played the games. There‘s extra stuff that established fans will notice and geek out over, of course, but it‘s great as a stand alone. 22h

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BarbaraJean

Orbital | Samantha Harvey

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Sigh. It‘s not you, Orbital, it‘s me. But maybe it‘s you, just a little. (Also maybe audio was a poor choice for me with this one.)

I was enticed by the Booker win and an immediately available audio copy on Libby. This sounded like something I‘d enjoy: meditative and thoughtful. I like meditative and thoughtful. I don‘t need a page-turning plot, but I did want some semblance of a story. Halfway through I‘m still struggling to remember ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …who some of the characters are, and I have SO much else to read. So it‘s goodbye, at least for now. 1d

dabbe #hailthebail! #betterbooksahead 🙌🏻 13h

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Brave New World | Aldous Huxley

“‘Did you eat something that didn‘t agree with you?‘ asked Bernard.
The Savage nodded. ‘I ate civilization.‘
‘What?‘
‘It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,‘ he added, in a lower tone, ‘I ate my own wickedness.‘”

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