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I did not enjoy this one. Maybe some of it was stilted translation, but fundamentally the story is a bit 1950-60s western scifi. Sexism, science worship, etc.

This was lovely, another instalment of the Singing Hills books.

This was fucking weird. Some deeply problematic disableist attitudes but A+ for starting weird, staying weird, and finishing somewhere I didn't expect.

It's probably a quirk of translation but this book describes Mercury as having "tongue-shaped cliffs" and I just can't visualise what that's meant to look like.

Finally one of these Hugos nominations redeems itself! This was great, I loved it.

I know a lot of people really liked this but I found it kind of meh. Fundamentally it's a whodunnit but set on another planet (or moon, I guess), and it has queer characters. But one of them is manipulative and coercive and it did not read as a healthy dynamic to me.

Anyway moving onto the Hugo novella nominations now.

This wasn't a bad book but I really struggled to care about any of the characters. Felt like I was just trudging through the last third to get to the end.

Reading this one on work time

This was a good read. First book in a series of unknown length.