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The science fiction masterpiece continues in the "major event,"( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune. With millions of copies sold …
Fourth book in the Dune series. Takes place 3500 years after the events of the original trilogy. Tells the story …
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter …
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the fan-favorite cozy space opera …
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead organisations to make catastrophic errors.
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War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the …
Like her other books, Kushner is masterful at evoking times and places, and depicting the inner lives of quite unlikeable but complex characters. Telex from Cuba is ambitious, propulsive and masterfully written – though perhaps not enjoyable? The skill of the author elevates it, she’s a force.
War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko …
Abandoned this one I’m afraid
The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, …
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Given the bulk of the volume is the novella The State Of The Art I’ll focus on that. The conceit of the Culture contacting Earth ruins many of the other Culture novels for me and deprives them of their power. It makes it clear how Banks wants both the Culture and the politics of the ‘70s and ‘80s to be understood. I wish I hadn’t read this to be honest, and I kind of wish it didn’t exist because it serves mostly to diminish his other work.
I acknowledge this is very much focused on my own view and experience, but isn’t that what reading is?
The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. …
