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Tag: science fiction

  • Review: Waking Gods

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    Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel My rating: 4 of 5 stars What an interesting book. I mean a lot of books you can tag an archetype and forecast the conclusion. With this series, I honestly had no idea what was about to happen. A giant robot we can barely control, a woman brought back from…

  • Review: Echopraxia

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    Echopraxia by Peter Watts My rating: 4 of 5 stars Of roaches, bicameral, zombies, vampires–oh my. I think this book could have started being interleaved between the pages of the prior book and it would have had a nice transitional set/segue. It stands alone but it also marries. Where Blindsight captivated us in closed spaces…

  • Review: Blindsight

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    We have a not-so-far-in-the-future event that for a moment galvanizes humanity. A humanity on the brink of losing its humanity maybe for good reasons, maybe for selfish–but we’re changing and we can already see that beginning of change in today’s science.

  • Review: Children of Time

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    Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky My rating: 4 of 5 stars What an interesting read. I’m so glad I finished it. I had a character moment that I .. just.. umfphforthesakeofallthingsgoodstopingsostupid .. but I let it pass and really really glad I let it go. lol. It was solid, well thought out; the ingenuity…