callum finished reading Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #2)
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #2)
Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now …
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Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now …
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962; second edition 1970; third edition 1996; fourth edition 2012) is a book about the …
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the …
The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil …
@TheCuteShadowyOne I've been recommended this before - apparently the graphic novel version is beautiful. Definitely on my reading list now.
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. …
This took a couple of chapters to get fully into, but really is a great story. Full of humanity, subtle questioning, and dramatic yet natural character development, The Wild Shore also has gripping action and beautiful scenery. Robinson's is the best realistic sci-fi I've read - I find it very impressive how the full power of SF/F imaginary worlds can be used in such a realistic way - and I'll certainly read the rest of the Three Californias.
As ever, Ursula K. Le Guin puts it elegantly:
There's a fresh wind blowing in The Wild Shore... welcome, Kim Stanley Robinson
Nearly 40 years after The Wild Shore was written, the wind is still fresh, but brings with it the disappointment that little has improved.
2047: and for sixty years America has been quarantined after a devastating nuclear attack.
Seventeen-year-old Henry wants to help make …