Ben Harris-Roxas started reading A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …
I really enjoyed the first one in the series, hope this sequel lives up to it.
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A health services researcher and educator from Sydney, Australia. I like imaginative fiction and a smattering of non-fiction, and I have a genuinely shameful number of unread books in my to-read pile. I'm also on Mastodon.
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Ben Harris-Roxas reviewed A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Recommended, a more detailed review to follow
4 stars
Ben Harris-Roxas commented on A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
What a delightful book. I'm enjoying this more than anything I've read this year I think. Splendid Speckled Mosscap Is such a great character, and the slow paced, almost meditative quality of the text is a balm for the reader. I hope it ends as it's begun.
Ben Harris-Roxas started reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Intrigued by this one. I need to finish the books I start!
Ben Harris-Roxas reviewed The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente
The future is blue. Endless blue...except for a few small places that float across the …
Humour, anger, and human connection
4 stars
A beautifully-written short novel that somehow manages to balance a bleak picture of a flooded earth where only the garage patch survives with hope and connection? Catherynne Valente is an incredible writer.
Ben Harris-Roxas started reading Islands in the net by Bruce Sterling
Re-reading after about ten years, I hope it holds up
Ben Harris-Roxas reviewed Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken MacLeod
Return to form
4 stars
Enjoyable with several intriguing elements. Felt like a return to form, reminiscent of Cosmonaut's Keep.
Ben Harris-Roxas started reading Dilla Time by Dan Charnas
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of …
I've been looking forward to this one for quite some time.
Ben Harris-Roxas started reading The Vorrh by B. Catling
"The Vorrh follows a brilliant cast of characters through a parallel Africa where fact, fiction, …
I read his book Hollow, which was a bizarre trip but one that's stuck with me. Wish me luck as I've bought the trilogy!
Ben Harris-Roxas finished reading Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …
Complicated feelings about this one. I probably need time to digest before reviewing.
Holds up better than I'd guessed
4 stars
Ben Harris-Roxas rated Karachi Vice: 4 stars
Ben Harris-Roxas stopped reading Weaponized by Neal L. Asher
A bright new future for humanity – or a dark and inescapable past.
With the …
Not for me. I have it 100 pages but it was like a poor, seventh-generation photocopy of his earlier work.
Ben Harris-Roxas started reading Lord Valentine's Castle (Majipoor Cycle) by Robert Silverberg
I found this in a secondhand bookstore on holidays recently, so I decided to re-read it 25+ years later. What a delight! The nineties are back, baby.
Ben Harris-Roxas started reading Karachi Vice by Samira Shackle
Reading it for nerd book group