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**50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS
Ursula K. Le …
The Dispossessed (in later printings titled The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by …
I guess this just isn't my thing, but I do get tired of these weird power fantasy books pretty quickly. I made it though this one, but I don't have any interested in the rest of the series.
Aboard Null Boundary, a giant starship thousands of years old, four survivors of an ancient …
I need to get through these to get to the new stuff!
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
It's good it's just not compelling. And I really need something to pull me through the narrative right now. I might come back to it when I can read with more focus.
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always …
The only other books by Martha Wells that I've read are the Murderbot Diaries, so it's pretty hard for me not to view it through that lens.
Which is unfair on the book, because it is entirely its own thing.
But also carries a lot of Murderbot DNA.
There's the conversational style, the same exasperated, hyper-confident protagonist with a prickly exterior but a heart of gold...
But Kai is also more openly vulnerable, more open with his friends and much more DTF.
Plot-wise it suffers from the same issues I have with the MBDs. The overarching story wasn't compelling, I don't really understand the stakes or the politics, at least not for the bulk of the book. So it was hard to get invested. But it doesn't matter because the whole thing is really just a framework to hang the individual set pieces on and, man, Wells is amazing on …
The only other books by Martha Wells that I've read are the Murderbot Diaries, so it's pretty hard for me not to view it through that lens.
Which is unfair on the book, because it is entirely its own thing.
But also carries a lot of Murderbot DNA.
There's the conversational style, the same exasperated, hyper-confident protagonist with a prickly exterior but a heart of gold...
But Kai is also more openly vulnerable, more open with his friends and much more DTF.
Plot-wise it suffers from the same issues I have with the MBDs. The overarching story wasn't compelling, I don't really understand the stakes or the politics, at least not for the bulk of the book. So it was hard to get invested. But it doesn't matter because the whole thing is really just a framework to hang the individual set pieces on and, man, Wells is amazing on the small scale.
The action is so good. Well's writes in such a cinematic way that I am immediately sucked into the scene. And they feed into each other so well, with the split past/present back story meaning that you are always left in the middle of some cliffhanger or important event even during the downtime.
The setting is also really interesting, the magic system is weird, but usually clearly conveyed, and the world is... well it's a mess. Dealing with the fallout from the magical equivalent of a nuclear war.
Overall, the most basic comparison is the strongest though. This is an incredibly compelling book, that I can see myself re-reading many times.
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always …
Finally made it all the way through a book. I thought I'd list the ability.
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always …
Nicely paced, an interesting world and the main character is likable.
However, it suffers from the same problem that the Murder Bot books do, in that the plot is kind of... superfluous. I don't really know what the point of it is, and I suspect that looking back, I won't remember either. This isn't a problem in MB because the main draw there is the characters, but this doesn't have that hook (at least not yet).
Also, Ziede sucks, I hope there is some character arc there, because right now I'm not a fan.
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always …
Add another to the pile!
Arteil blundade. Det här var ingen vanlig natt, svärdet var ingen tillfällighet. Det var meningen …
Lite lättare.
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
The time jump sort of seemed to take the wind out, so now I don't feel quite so invested... Seems to be slowly ramping back up though.
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
Heard good things.
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
Started reading in the tram. Forcing myself to only read Swedish just means I don't read...
The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative …
Feeling a little rambling.
Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and …
Interested after listening to the EP on Srsly Wrong podcast.