Got about 1/3 of the way through this before I was really sure that I was done. Good poetic prose. Some arresting images. but no plot or characters I cared about at all.
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I only track books that I read for pleasure, mostly SF/Fantasy. I've fallen out of the habit of actually writing reviews beyond giving a star rating. It would be nice to get back into that habit.
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Aneel reviewed On Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren by Bill Wood
Review of "On Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren" on 'Goodreads'
1 star
Aneel reviewed The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the …
Review of 'The Ministry for the Future' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Surprisingly dull. Everything happens off screen. Minus one star for blockchain fanboy attitudes.
Aneel rated Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law: 4 stars
Aneel rated The Girl in The Tower: 4 stars
The Girl in The Tower by Katherine Arden
"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced …
Aneel rated The bird king [large print]: 4 stars
![G. Willow Wilson: The bird king [large print] (2019, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company)](https://st2.ap-south-1.linodeobjects.com/images/thumbnails/covers/011f9478-f008-43e8-957d-e24229d2aa46/89e754142945bf78e83a93ff0d14d819.webp)
Aneel rated Invisible Planets: 4 stars
Invisible Planets by Cixin Liu, Chen Qiufan, Ken Liu, and 5 others (Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, #1)
Award-winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from China. Some stories have won awards; …
Aneel rated The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1): 3 stars
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1) by Seth Dickinson
The Traitor Baru Cormorant ( BAH-roo) is a 2015 hard fantasy novel by Seth Dickinson, and his debut novel. It …
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
"From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, …
Aneel rated Fugitive Telemetry: 4 stars
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.
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Aneel rated Viking economics: 3 stars
Viking economics by George Lakey
"An academic and activist takes an entertaining look at the Nordic welfare state and shows us how we, too, can …
Aneel reviewed Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie …
Review of 'Walkaway' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Characters only exist to be mouthpieces for a polemic. Read like the kind of thing you talk about with your camp mates while prepping for burning man
Aneel rated Alif the Unseen: 4 stars
Aneel rated A Memory Called Empire: 4 stars
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Won the 2020 Hugo for Best Novel. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare is posted far from her mining station home, to the …