
- May 6
- 3 min
Book Review: Death's End, by Cixin Liu
Like Book 1 of Cixin Liu’s towering The Three-Body Problem series, Book 3 begins with a siege. But while the first book opened in 1967...
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- Mar 19
- 3 min
Book Review: Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
What if you combined the sci-fantasy setting of Dune, the Warder-Aes Sedai dynamic of The Wheel of Time, the battle-royale structure of...
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- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
Book Review: All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
Ever hate your job and just want to watch Netflix? Turns out Murderbots feel the same way. At least, that’s the general attitude of the...
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- Jun 5, 2021
- 3 min
Book Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Letters are many things in Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose the Time War. Taunts between foes. Invitations to...
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- May 1, 2021
- 3 min
Book Review: The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest generally operates on a galactic scale. But it starts with the perspective of an ant. The diminutive point of...
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- Sep 19, 2020
- 2 min
Book Review: The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars begins as a disaster story and ends as a space race. Both tales are compelling in their own...
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- Apr 20, 2020
- 3 min
Book Review: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, by Ken Liu
I think part of why I enjoyed Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories so much is that his collection of science fiction and...
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- Aug 8, 2019
- 2 min
Podcast Review: Wolverine - The Long Night, by Marvel
One of the most interesting things about Marvel's narrative podcast Wolverine: The Long Night is that Wolverine is barely in it. The...
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- Jul 13, 2019
- 3 min
Book Review: The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem is the type of epic science-fiction novel that’s carried more by its science than its fiction. I don’t...
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- May 1, 2018
- 1 min
Podcast Review: Steal the Stars, by Tor Labs
Steal the Stars is one of the best stories I’ve listened to in a long time. I say listened to because Steal the Stars is a dramatic...
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