Look, I know some people have trouble with Stephenson's writing, but he unfailingly hooks me in and this was no exception. This book didn't even suffer from the Seveneves problem (the final third of the book being far too long and unecessary), it was short and compact, and I'm already hanging out for the second book.
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The Blighted Stars by Megan E. O'Keefe
When a spy is stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, she must first figure out how to …
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Dr Ms Kat finished reading Polostan by Neal Stephenson
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I have a suspicion that Stephenson uses the word "lozenge" in every book. I have just encountered this book's usage ("lozengey").
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New Neal Stephenson, let's goooo
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s The House in …
Aw man, this was such a sweet, and terrible, and wonderful book. The acknowledgements made me cry.
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
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Dr Ms Kat finished reading Pwning Tomorrow by Charlie Jane Anders
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This was a mixed bag. The Cory Doctorow story was hella depressing. There was randomly a paranormal romance novella (because the author was a plaintiff in an EFF-backed case, I think). The stories were fine but not an especially cohesive collection.
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Pwning Tomorrow by Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, Cory Doctorow, and 20 others
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As part of EFF’s 25th Anniversary celebrations, we are releasing “Pwning Tomorrow: Stories from the Electronic Frontier,” an anthology of …