Daniel finished reading The Rapture of the Nerds by Charles Stross
A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid …
Fun 😁
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Daniel finished reading The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross (Laundry Files, #6)
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER ... Dr Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top …
Nice to spend some time with Mo. Its alright, pulpy and paced.
Daniel finished reading Vibrant matter by Jane Bennett
The core ideas are interesting, the book itself didn't grab me.
The core ideas are interesting, the book itself didn't grab me.
Daniel finished reading The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
Well-paced spy/cosmic horror mashup, kind of fun to get a snapshot of what Stross was thinking about in 1999.
Daniel finished reading Red Rising (The Red Rising Series, Book 1) by Pierce Brown
Science Fiction set in the future on the planet mars. People are divided into colors, …
Pretty hard to get over the fridging of the lovely, brave young wife, and it colours later choices in an otherwise interesting story about class infiltration and betrayal.
Daniel finished reading Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
Pretty tasty as a collection, up there or better than The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All, which has some bum notes.
Daniel finished reading The seven dials mystery by Agatha Christie (St. Martin's minotaur mysteries)
Brings back several characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys, in a …
Content warning Mystery resolution
I'm interested in the note this story ends on, with a Scotland-yard sanctioned secret society/spy network. Bit of an interesting mix with the whole upper crust monstrosity of the characters.
Daniel started reading The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley …
The Intoxicated is both a timely rendition of our current crisis and an astute study of the dismissive response to truth-telling.
Daniel finished reading The wine-dark sea by Robert Aickman
Just read The Trains, a fascinating, and fascinatingly abrupt, story about two women rucking through a "Quiet Valley" cut through by a train line.
Just read The Trains, a fascinating, and fascinatingly abrupt, story about two women rucking through a "Quiet Valley" cut through by a train line.
Daniel finished reading The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #10)
The Hydrogen Sonata is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Iain M. Banks, set …
Kind of wraps up a little abruptly but the journey is plenty interesting
Daniel finished reading Heavy weather by Bruce Sterling
Prescient, and likely to be prescient, sadly.
Daniel stopped reading Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain
This is the story of M. Francisco Fabrigas, explorer, philosopher, and heretical physicist, who took …
I've enjoyed this but I've lost my appetite for it. I'll come back later.
I've enjoyed this but I've lost my appetite for it. I'll come back later.
Daniel finished reading Inversions by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #6)
Bit of an odd story, this. We, the readers, are expected to infer a number of facts which the narrators never themselves understand, and tie together a story from two broken halves. Maybe not entirely successful but a really interesting effort.
Daniel finished reading The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New …
Achingly sad
Daniel finished reading Ghost story by Jim Butcher (The Dresden files -- [13])
Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard PI. Turns out the everyday world is …
Harry Dresden is less awful to spend time with than he was in book 3.