This was a ride and a half and I did not expect it to be this good or turn out this serious. You know everything HAD to have gone to pot for the ship to end in one body, sure. I was ready for an action/adventure sci-fi romp, and in a way, it is that. What surprised me was how hard it goes into the...
One of the potential pleasures of SF is being dumped in an unfamiliar world and suffering "future shock" - the specifically science fictional equivalent of the bewilderment known to travellers as culture shock. It's fun; you have to figure out what things mean; how this society is organised; what th...
Some intelligent writing on a few relevant themes here, namely identity, gender, and civilization. It took me about 150 pages to get used to everyone being referred to as "she" regardless of gender, but by the end of the book it felt more natural. I love that the Radchaai are largely an androgynous ...
Not being much of a science fiction reader, Ann Leckie's work to date hasn't had much pull for me. But when I heard her new book was fantasy and had an unusual narrative perspective, I got interested. I'm glad that, for once, not even the considerable hype surrounding this book kept me from readin...
I'm not sure how to explain what I loved about this book without spoiling it. The story itself was a fun ride, because it's obvious the whole time that the ancient god, who is both narrating the current day action and ruminating on its own history and the nature of gods, is withholding some crucial ...
This was more of a light and quick read than I expected. Diving into a new sci-fi author, I always worry that the story will get bogged down in explanations of technology and inter-worlds/inter-species politics, but that's not the case with this book. Leckie provides a good story and interesting cha...
I only made it 3 chapters. At that point, I asked a couple of friends some pointed questions because it seemed like this might not be my kind of things. Based on their answers, yeah, not going to be my kind of thing. "If you liked Goblin Emperor, you'll like this" being one of the deciding factors. ...
I have been getting yelled at to read this book for years. I tried, really, but I just could not get into this. I finally decided to throw in the white towel and call it a DNF. I was told that the book gets better, but I am not in the mood to suffer through trying to get to better. At 50 percent m...
"Provenance" is a delightfully deft piece of genre-twisting science fiction that pivots around the idea that our identity is the product of the story that we tell ourselves about who we are and where came from. It examines how the things that give that story a provenance, a history of ownership, bec...
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