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Wraithe

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Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire (Paperback, 2019)

A Memory Called Empire is a 2019 science fiction novel, the debut novel by Arkady …

One thing I’m liking about this book is how there’s no direct parallel societal links to existing earth societies. Usually when an author writes an empire, get residences, whether it’s British, Roman, Japanese, Egyptian, some kind of dynastic feel.

Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling: A Libertarian Walks into a Bear (2020, PublicAffairs)

A tiny American town’s plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told …

NGL this whole story sounds like someone made it up. As Sam Kinison once famously said: “some stuff is too messed up to be made up, someone has to go and do it”

started reading Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus

Jamie Loftus: Raw Dog (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars …

It’s starting off pretty lively, I have to respect any book that has this in the foreword: “And finally—if you’re standing in a big box store wondering if you should steal this book, the answer is yes.”