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Aaron

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finished reading Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

Martha Wells: Network Effect (Paperback, 2021, Tor.com) 4 stars

Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.

You know that feeling when you’re …

I don't know, bit the shorter books seem to have more punch. Not that this was bad, it's just I'm so used to burning though a book in a couple of days. This seemed to take a lot longer than it should have proportional to its length.

Maybe it's a relativity thing?

reviewed Vast by Linda Nagata (The Nanotech Succession, #3)

Linda Nagata: Vast (EBook, 2012, Mythic Island Press LLC) 5 stars

Aboard Null Boundary, a giant starship thousands of years old, four survivors of an ancient …

Thoughtful and Weird Sci-Fi

5 stars

The Nanotech Succession books get stronger with each installment. This final book, and the prequel to the Inverted Frontier (the first two of which I actually read before this) is by far the best. A really inventive, weird, and though provoking book. For a story that spans such stretches of both space and time, it is at its core a story of a small group of travelers learning about each other, and the messed-up shit that has happened to their home and their species.