sciencefiction

Graciouswarriorprincess

Sunrise on the Reaping: A Hunger Games Novel | Suzanne Collins

May hopefuls.

This doesn‘t include my ebooks or audiobooks.

DGRachel Those all look like fun! 1h

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alecia3dixie

All Better Now | Neal Shusterman

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I really enjoyed all the questions of humanity this book brought up. What does it mean to be human? Are you any less human if we can't feel all the emotions? Should humanity be able to choose to be happy all the time or not? This book brought up so many questions and points where I feel like I could defend either side. Very well written. I did feel it was a tad too long and too many side characters' POVs. 4.5/5

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Kitta

Those Beyond the Wall: A Novel | Micaiah Johnson

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Oh wow, strong pick for me. I liked this even more than the first book - The Space Between Worlds. Dystopian rebels fighting to keep their way of life and some people travelling the multiverse coming to interfere!

I love this type of science fiction. I stayed up late reading last night past midnight to finish this one. Definitely recommend!

Counts towards #lgbtqia2025 as well!

Kenyazero

Kenyazero Sounds like an excellent follow-up book! I love when that happens ♥️ 6h

Kitta @Kenyazero yes I was pleasantly surprised! I thought it would be okay but it blew me away. 6h

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Super_Jane

Star Wars: Dark Disciple | Christie Golden

so-so

3.5/5 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

“Remember…you always have a choice to be better. You always have a choice to…to pick the right path.” She smiled sadly. “Even if that choice comes a little late.”

#starwars #may2025 #sciencefiction #jedi #clonewars

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TheSpineView

Cat's Cradle | Kurt Jr. Vonnegut

#Bibliophile @eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#Cats

Eggs Classic👏🏻👏🏻 6h

TheSpineView @Eggs 😊 6h

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shanaqui

Automatic Noodle | Annalee Newitz

so-so

I'll have to give my ultimate rating some thought, but it felt like it just kind of fizzled out. Even given it's mostly about the robots finding a cosy found family, and not about the world it's set against, the pace suddenly accelerated to smooth everything out in a handful of pages at the end.

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LeticiaToraci

Bear Head | Adrian Tchaikovsky

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It is extremely eerie how much this book, published in 2021, relates to our 2025 present world situation, but the full creative package of possible, and already happening, scenarios is surely there.

I just like Honey so much!

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Robotswithpersonality

Mechanize My Hands to War | Erin K. Wagner

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Robotswithpersonality

Mechanize My Hands to War | Erin K. Wagner

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I am relieved to say this book is not nearly as creepy as the cover suggests. Though of course if it meant to imply a serious tone, then it is warranted.
Certainly there's some heavy material, child soldiers radicalized by a militia, a cult leader passing himself off as a parental figure.
The questions around the sentience and the agency, rights, of androids, machines who think, and feel, who challenge the definition of machine.1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? A choice that emotionally impacts human and android alike, and how both have the ability to react badly or change behaviour in response.
How does one examine conscience, determine a moral compass, the notion of right action, when you've only ever had commands and protocols as guides? How do you live with an action you only in retrospect discover was not what other's wanted, when saving one life destroyed another, 14h

Robotswithpersonality 3/? when you have to navigate the idea of a mistake you can't fix, when no one even thinks you're in a position to need therapy?
How do you handle the ramifications of an operation to apprehend a threat that personally caused you pain when the effort of apprehension in turn endangers innocents?
There's a parallel that could be drawn, in shaping behaviour, in controlling will, and it's not only in the human to child relationships. 14h

Robotswithpersonality 4/? I can see the purpose, strengthening of the thread between Adrian and Trey narratively, but the romance seems the most tenuous storyline, even if their grown up selves are forthright about it, it just feels like there wasn't the same amount of room for considering it as there was for the various androids in their timelines, Adrian and Trey's interactions with the androids, Adrian and Trey's history with Eli. Certainly Eli's mission statement 14h

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? and Trey's struggle with Ora's (and subsequently Helios') action makes for a more nuanced discussion between Arian and Trey, another layer for Trey to struggle with in the field.
There's a lot here that works, to the extent that I wonder if it was too much for one book. Sarah and John, Ora and Helios, Adrian, Trey and Eli, each might have been their own story, though the interweaving is competent. 14h

Robotswithpersonality 6/? I think if you've been reading books about robotic life you'll find some familiar ground in this story, but the questions asked in this genre are perennially relevant, both in continuing to observe a respect for the rights of living beings, and a cautiously open mind for a more robotic future. 14h

Robotswithpersonality 7/7 I still want to believe that if we reach a day where machines shift from the automated tools of morally-bankrupt industry to thinking selves, that we'll respect the evolution, and recognize they hold as much danger and potential as ourselves, without such a realization earning them our immediate fear, aggression and dominance. I can hope.
⚠️child abuse, child death, violence 14h

TheBookHippie Hope 🤞🏻we have to! 13h

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rachelsbrittain

Sunrise on the Reaping: A Hunger Games Novel | Suzanne Collins

I had two five star reads in April so I decided to use one of my wild cards #BookBracket2025 @CSeydel

What were the best books you read in April?

CSeydel Excellent! 15h

Meshell1313 Ooh great choices! 😍 6h

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