A numbers geek reading SFF to maintain some hope in this world.
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The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy …
I started this last night and so far it has a political setup reminiscent of A Memory Called Empire. This book is the winner of the 2024 Compton Crook Award.
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she …
Hench is a lot more serious and deep than you'd expect from some of the flippant descriptions. I went in wanting something as light escapism. That's not what I got, but it was certainly worth a read, and I liked it far more than a few other things I've picked up recently that looked better on the surface.
The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy …
Winner of the 2024 Compton Crook Award
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for …
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of …
The first half of this book reads like a very predictable standard space opera, then it takes a turn for the wild. There are a lot of great ideas here, and my only criticism is that the pacing in the second half was awkward. Tesh rushed through some segments that could have used more detail, yet lingered on other parts way too long.
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea …
It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers." …
It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers." …
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but when one of …
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but when one of …
Rex is seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics …
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
‘You know why the French called boiled potatoes à l’anglaise? Because they think boiling things is boring, XXXXXXXX, just like all of English cooking is deathly boring—’
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
Character name redacted to avoid potential spoiler. R. F. Kuang shows repeatedly that she's not a fan of English food.
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
Content warning Chapter 16
A dream; this was an impossible dream, this fragile, lovely world in which, for the price of his convictions, he had been allowed to remain.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
Travel sounds fun until you realize what you really want is to stay at home with a cup of tea and a stack of books by a warm fire.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
my father says we were aristocrats in the Mughal court, or something like that. But not anymore.’
‘What happened?’
Ramy gave him a long look. ‘The British, Birdie. Keep up.’
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
