Books

I read…a lot. Here’s where I ramble about books and printed media.

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📚 7/2021: Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee 1/6

A satisfying end to the Revenger trilogy. Not all questions answered, but those most central to the main adventure are. If the “high seas adventure in space” conceit works for you, it’s a good series.

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📚 6/2021: Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The central book of a trilogy, between two #PKDickAward nominees (one in 2018, one this year). More YA adventures on the high seas but in space, in a far-future pseudo-18th century society among a shattered solar system.

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📚 5/2021: Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Vol. 3 edited by Elizabeth LaPensée and Michael Sheyahshe ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The latest in this series of comic anthologies written and illustrated by indigenous creators drawing upon their cultures to create SF/F short pieces.

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📚 4/2021: The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven ⭐️⭐️⭐️

More of Niven’s big-concept world building (literally), as Louis Wu returns to the Ringworld and learns much more about its history and creation as he tries to save it.

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A 📚 post for micro.blog SF/F fans: The nominees for this year’s Philip K. Dick Award have been announced!

Always an interesting slate of books, the award winner will be announced on April 2nd at Norwescon (which is virtual this year, so you can attend wherever you live!).

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📚 3/2021: Ringworld by Larry Niven ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1971 Hugo Best Novel

This was one of my formative SF books of childhood, and for the most part, still holds up well, especially in the sheer mind-boggling nature of the Ringworld itself and the true alien-ness of the puppeteers.

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📚 2/2021: The Dark Veil by James Swallow ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek

A year after the attack on Mars and Picard’s retirement, Riker and the Titan (including Troi and Thad, their first child) face off with Romulans while assisting a mysterious alien ship. More good backstory building.

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📚1/2021: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1969 Hugo Best Novel

This was excellent, and rather remarkably topical for being 50+ years old. Addressing gender and politics personal and national, and though many points are quite dark, with definite hope.