ChrisMayLA6

This week I've been mainly reading, no. 153.

Each of Emma Newman's Planetfall quartet explores a different aspect of the same overarching story of religious driven intergalactic migration. In Atlas Alone (2019), the fourth story centres on an elite gamer & their attempt to uncover & then take revenge for a crime against humanity. To say much more would ruin the plot for you, but as with the others, this is great, fascinating sci-fi, which has a great payoff at the end.

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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 148.

The first book of Ann Leckie's Radch trilogy, Ancillary Justice (2013) offers an interesting plot of AI, identity & insurrection. Leckie builds an interesting (political) world/universe for her tale of revenge & becoming, which while at times a little too tricksy, overall remains a compelling bit of space-opera. If at times the plot seems a little too convoluted, the central idea(s) is/are intriguing & developed interestingly

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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 129.

Ann Leckie's Translation State (2023) is a #scifi tale of negotiation between (intergalactic) civilisations, leavened with a story of belonging & (re)made families. While, highly focussed (the set-piece negotiations are half the book), its a fascinating work of invention that breezes along through multiple perspectives. Elements are left unexplained but it hardly matters as the narrative itself carries you along. I really enjoyed it.

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