pickAn excellent installment in one of my two favourite sci-fi series (the other being The Expanse). Listening to Grover Gardner's audio narration made this reread even more enjoyable.
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so-soListed as a trilogy but actually the 4th book I‘ve read in the “Revelation Space” universe. After thousands of pages and over 15 years reading these books, I can believe how bad this was compared to the previous ones. If I hadn‘t invested so much time in this series I would have bailed on this one. I think Reynolds‘ agent must have been negotiating his Q9M pound deal as he wrote this so he just phoned it in. A boring, padded anti-climax
Bk3 of last months #bookhaul is one of my favourite genres, SciFi. The 1st book in what‘s been called a new epic masterpiece, it tells the story of Hadrian, a hero from the galaxy spanning war against the alien Cielcin. But it‘s the REAL story. He was not a hero. He was not a monster. He wasn‘t even a soldier. On the wrong planet at the right time for the best reasons, he must fight a war he did not start for an Empire he does not love.
Tried some more Lindsay Buroker alongside Sleepy!Casey, who‘s in the doldrums because his parents went to BC without him. Poor little soul.
The Fallen Empire prequel novella didn‘t really grab me, but I‘ll read at least a couple chapters of the first novel before I mark the omnibus as read. I think I tried it once before, with poor results, but maybe my tastes‘ll have shifted since then. I did mostly like the first three Dragon Blood books.
pickA 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.”
pickI 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.
pickThis 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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pickThe 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‘. ⬇️
