Tag: sci-fi
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Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Back after a long hiatus to talk about book 2 of my favorite series of 2022 and how it was relevant to my life imploding.
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The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
I’m back at it after a monthlong absence with praise for the finale of the Broken Earth trilogy.
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The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
This series is picking up momentum with a looming Final Fantasy-esque existential threat from the moon.
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Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah suffers from the same lack of micro-level finesse as Dune, except in Dune 2 that’s basically the whole book.
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
I didn’t register this book as dystopian fiction when I read it. So many of its ‘dystopian’ qualities reflect aspects of everyday life in a world afflicted by a pandemic and late-stage capitalism.
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The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
I didn’t hate it, but I think the single best descriptor for it is “unsubtle.”
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Dune by Frank Herbert
I didn’t like Dune while I was reading it. But I kept thinking about it for days after I finished it.
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