Tak! commented on Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
Shigidi is a disgruntled and demotivated nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering …
Skibidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
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Tak! reviewed Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in …
Dirt Town
4 stars
This is a novel so Australian that it goes from Milo to "no worries" to lamington in the course of a single paragraph.
Apart from that, it's kind of a typical crime novel following the investigation of a young teenage girl's disappearance.
The most interesting thing it does, in my opinion, is, among the chapters following various characters' viewpoints, adding "we" chapters that are meant to be kind of a combined viewpoint of the town's kids.
Tak! commented on The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …
And there it is: THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES ebook is 75% off, down to $2.99, across platforms! A Holmesian murder mystery set on Jupiter, featuring a 2nd-chance f/f romance, annoyed academics, trains, fog, tea, and the regeneration of ecosystems! Grab your e-copy now!
Tak! commented on Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
The future of storytelling is here.
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing …
My forthcoming novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR (Jan 2025) is about death, disability, ability, the complexity of culture, immigrants & the next generations, machines, AI, gun ownership, creative writing, the space race, so much more. At its heart, it's about the power of STORYTELLING. And it has a hell of an ending.
Tak! reviewed Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi
"You must be as sharp as a stilettotore’s dagger and as subtle as a fish …
Navola
5 stars
What a rollercoaster!
Navola could not be more different than Bacigalupi's excellent despairpunk scifi, with the exception that it is also excellent.
Tak! commented on Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer
«Oh, sí, mis buenas gentes, sí, ya lo creo que sí. Se puede vivir en …
The #SFFBookClub pick for October 2024
Tak! reviewed Counterweight by Anton Hur
Counterweight
4 stars
Counterweight is a nearish-future scifi thriller set on the island of Patusan, which I have just learned today has a long literary legacy.
The plot follows an unnamed employee of the LK Corporation as he attempts to unravel a series of events revolving around the world's first space elevator, erected by LK on Patusan. I enjoyed the originality of the setting, but I found the whole thing fairly convoluted and somewhat difficult to follow.
The dystopian corporation-state future where having a literal worm implanted in your brain is a condition of employment is becoming all too plausible at this point.
Tak! commented on The Ace of Skulls by Chris Wooding (Tales of the Ketty Jay, #4)
As Vardia descends into chaos, Captain Frey is doing his best to keep his crew …
I really like "kloms" as a shortening of kilometers
Tak! commented on Sins of the Children by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Tak! reviewed Cascade Failure by L. M. Sagas
There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust …
Cascade Failure
4 stars
Cascade Failure is an action-packed scifi novel about a ragtag spaceship crew of misfits that gets involved in Significant Events. It's snappy and engaging, but it's not heavy on horizon-expanding content - it feels a bit like a space-opera version of a Tales of the Ketty Jay novel
Tak! commented on Counterweight by Anton Hur
The #SFFBookClub selection for September 2024
Tak! reviewed The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend …
The Sleeping Car Porter
4 stars
The Sleeping Car Porter is kind of an ensemble farce with subtle paranormal elements, experienced through a porter for a sleeping car on a transcontinental voyage across Canada.
The porter is a gay (or bi?) black man in Canada in the 1920s, and there's a strong focus on the various aggressions and disadvantages he's exposed to in light of that.
Weird and enjoyable.
Tak! commented on Rust Atomics and Locks by Mara Bos
The Rust programming language is extremely well suited for concurrency, and its ecosystem has many …
Mara@hachyderm.io - Reminder that my book—Rust Atomics and Locks—is freely available online: marabos.nl/atomics/ 😊
(If you read it, please leave a review on www.goodreads.com/book/show/63291820-rust-atomics-and-locks)
Tak! commented on The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
The #SFFBookClub pick for August 2024
Tak! commented on Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
o fix the world they first must break it further.
Humanity is a dying breed, …
If you loved Service Model, or wanted to love it but wished it was more "serious", I can also recommend The Mechanical