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Machine

Posted: May 24, 2021 by Vanessa in Books We Like Meta: Elizabeth Bear, Science Fiction
Machine

…path. Core Central is populated with a cast of great variety: ship computers, sentient trees, insectoid security, and everything else Ms. Bear could think of that might be out there…

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Cosmic Powers

Cosmic Powers

…a moon that is the base of an information baron. The security for the moon was built by the man doing the infiltrating. He’s trying to get information about whether…

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Reamde

Posted: January 13, 2012 by Nickolas in Books that are Mediocre Meta: Neal Stephenson, Techno Thriller
Reamde

REAMDE is the second…

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Terminal World

Posted: July 12, 2010 by Writer Dan in Books We Love Meta: Alastair Reynolds, Science Fiction
Terminal World

…into a lower zone quickly die. In Neon Heights, life is much like you’d expect from that in a modern city–cars, commuters, buildings agog–all familiar but for the sharp drop…

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The Company Man

Posted: May 20, 2011 by Steven in Books We Love Meta: Robert Jackson Bennett, Science Fiction
The Company Man

…set up perfectly in character and setting. In Robert Jackson Bennett‘s THE COMPANY MAN , there was a scene near the end of the novel reminiscent of that Deadwood scene….

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Best of 2014

Best of 2014

…be some books here that we haven’t even reviewed yet (again, this year was a bit crazy). And we didn’t even come close to reading everything… so feel free to…

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Bloodstone

Posted: April 14, 2014 by Vanessa in Books We Like Meta: Gillian Philip, Fantasy
Bloodstone

their queen that they would find the bloodstone. By the time BLOODSTONE begins, four hundred years have passed, and Leonna, Conal’s mother, is coming to the conclusion that they…

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Killing Is My Business

Killing Is My Business

…a private eye, an intrepid snooper. Nah, he’s a button man for the highest bidder in Tinseltown. And it’s another case that starts real simple, but like any good case,…

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Three Parts Dead

Posted: January 29, 2013 by Vanessa in Books We Like Meta: Max Gladstone, Fantasy
Three Parts Dead

…magic lawyer type) who since being kicked out of the Hidden Schools has floundered about purposeless. Until Elayne Kevarian hires her to help on a case her firm has taken…

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The Lyre Thief

Posted: February 2, 2017 by Patricia Kintz in Books that are Mediocre Meta: Jennifer Fallon, Fantasy
The Lyre Thief

…play along. These two best friends/sisters, though one has been a princess and the other her handmaiden, embark on an adventure of switched identities complete with love triangles and meddlesome…