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HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, …
It always makes me wonder when women write books that are loaded with systemic misogyny (in a "this is fine and normal" way). Does it actually seem fine and normal to them? Or was this required for a commercially successful fantasy series in *checks publication date* 1968?
HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, …
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Wow, this took a hard turn from tepid dragon fantasy to time travel paradox adventure.
Inspired by a true event, this powerful short story from the author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko explores the …
Scions have no limits. Scions do not die. And Scions do not disappear.
Sergeant Ted Regan has a problem. A …
In the near future, lab-grown sex dolls are the pleasure toy of choice in this …
Whoa, I was not prepared for this one. I had just finished a 600-page epic fantasy slog, and I was looking for something short to read at bedtime as a change of pace: "Hey, Lauren Beukes, Zoo City and The Shining Girls were great, I'll grab this one!"
Ungirls is a chillingly plausible peek at the outcome of the invention of vat-grown "sex bodies", complete with all-too-realistic disgusting subreddits and a Jordan Peterson clone.
Content warnings: explicit imagery of sex, violence, sex violence, pedophilia, extreme misogyny, doxxing, stalking
Side note: I can't remember having encountered a novel's title as a catchphrase in the text so many times before: every time I read "grace of kings", I would think to myself, "Hot Tub Time Machine."
Great world and cultures, I really enjoyed them, as well as the storytelling in isolated sections.
However, it bothered me to no end that the greater plot arc was driven by inexplicable, near-psychotic personality shifts across a range of major characters.
It's also unfortunate that the outcome of a Song-of-Ice-and-Fire-style fantasy imperial conflict is spoiled by the actual name of the trilogy. 😐
Gary Rendell is the sole survivor of a mission exploring an anomalous artefact discovered in …
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warning: may contain beowulf
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battle kites, badass
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the …
Seeking refuge in fantasy novel worlds throughout a youth under the shadow of a dubiously …
This was really a miss for me. I got a very similar feeling as with Never Let Me Go, where I spent the whole book being irritated with the characters and waiting for the story to begin.
The most enjoyable part for me was reading about the characters geeking out about classic scifi and fantasy.
The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa―a name …
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Expert System's Champion , sometimes the ones you hate are the …
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The Expert System's Brother is a very serviceable gradual-reveal scifi story, but The Expert System's Champion is on another level.
I particularly appreciate how The Big Reveal is managed - he drip-feeds us just enough to make it plausible without too much risk of giving it away.
Pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.
“That girl’s got more …
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My only nitpick is that it feels weird that Esther is being absolutely destroyed by the emotional aftermath of Beatriz's death and her role in it, yet she's immediately drooling over Cye
IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a …
How lovely to briefly imagine that organizations like the Ku Klux Klan were the result of otherworldly sorcery instead of human cowardice