This was fine — the characters are pretty reductive (“The evil one” “The sneaky one” “The slow but surprisingly insightful one” “The elitist one”) but the mechanics are interesting to observe in motion.
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Bring me all the speculative fiction. Whose stories have I been missing out on?
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1 star - not worth reading 2 stars - worth reading, but has major problems 3 stars - satisfying read, may have minor problems. Most books live here. 4 stars - inspiring read, overshadows any issues 5 stars - life-changing read
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infryq finished reading The Brides of Maracoor by Gregory Maguire
infryq wants to read Finding Refuge by Victoria Janssen
Finding Refuge by Victoria Janssen
They lost the revolution. But then, they found sanctuary-and hope. After the fascistic Federated Colonies crushes their interstellar revolt, freedom …
infryq started reading The Brides of Maracoor by Gregory Maguire
infryq wants to read You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo
infryq wants to read Witch King by Martha Wells
Witch King by Martha Wells
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always been Kai-Enna!
After being murdered, …
infryq wants to read Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai
infryq reviewed Half Lost by Sally Green
The third and final instalment in the breathtaking Half Bad trilogy by Sally Green.
Nathan …
oof, the ending on this
4 stars
a rough time. a long, exhausted, grinding, tinnitus of grief.
infryq rated Die With Your Lord: 4 stars
Die With Your Lord by Sarah K. L. Wilson
A death too terrible to contemplate. A life gambled for everything.
With her beloved dying in her arms, a last …
infryq rated Down Among the Sticks and Bones: 4 stars
Down among the sticks and bones by Seanan McGuire
Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's …
infryq started reading Network Effect by Martha Wells
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
infryq started reading Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
infryq started reading Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
infryq started reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
This is the audiobook read by Kevin R Free but I’m too tired to do actual data entry
infryq commented on Galileo's Dream by K Stanley Robinson
I get enough old white dudes refusing to reckon with the harm they do in real life. Putting this down for a while, possibly indefinitely