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Ancillary Justice

by Ann Leckie · published 2013 · read 2018-03-13

★★★★★

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The Sparrow

by Mary Doria Russell · published 1996 · read 2020-01-08

★★★★☆

I liked The Sparrow a whole lot. Part of that is just that I like the premise: Jesuit First Contact? Hell yes! The Jesuits are the science-minded and intellectual ones among the Catholic orders, and at the same time very capable of actions

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The Handmaid’s Tale

by Margaret Atwood · published 1985 · read 2017-12-21

★★★★☆

Oh yes, definitely the dystopic tale I needed without knowing it. Nicely done.

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Iron Council

by China Miéville · published 2004 · read 2018-09-02

★★★★☆

I think The Iron Council was weaker than The Scar (which is the previous volume in the Bas-Lag/New Crobuzon trilogy), but I enjoyed it nearly as much, because I'm a sucker for revolutions. Also, it's noticeable just how skil

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Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville · published 2000 · last read 2022-07-28

★★★★☆

Wow, this book was … a lot to take in. I liked it very much. Getting thrown into an Ankh-Morporkesque city, discovering alien races, and characters, and social structures was awesome. I noted with thanks that there was very little of a conv

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The City & the City

by China Miéville · published 2009 · read 2018-11-14

★★★☆☆

The City & the City is a very impressive scifi book, but while I can appreciate its coolness and weirdness, and I can't point to a single flaw, somehow the story didn't quite grip me, although the concept of the two cities was introduced be

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Station Eleven

by Emily St. John Mandel · published 2014 · read 2019-05-08

★★★☆☆

Sometimes, you find books that are good books, and you notice how they are good books, and you like the parts that make them good books, but you don't like them. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is such a book for me. It's not

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Deep Wheel Orcadia

by Harry Josephine Giles · published 2021 · read 2023-02-15

★★☆☆☆

I tend to really like the experimental stuff, especially when it’s playing with language, and very especially epic poetry. So why didn’t this work for me? I don’t know. Harder for a non-native speaker to get into, I guess, because it runs