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“We’re both exiles, she’d thought, right then, and had hated herself for thinking it. She’d been gone a few months. She had no right to the name. She was home. She wasn’t, and she knew it. (There was no such place any longer.)”

A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2) by Arkady Martine

October 29, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

What a great series, top to bottom. I don’t even want to talk about it. (Or, I want to talk about it for five hours straight.) I kind of already want to re-read. If you like science fiction, this is a must read. It’s so self-assured, so smart, so well put together, so full of heart and yet also full of thinking. It’s so hard to find an author who can stimulate both my thinking brain and my feeling brain, and Arkady Martine is a […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, A Desolation Called Peace, arkady martine, first contact, narfna, sci-fi, space opera, Teixcalaan

narfna's CBR13 Review No:158 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, A Desolation Called Peace, arkady martine, first contact, narfna, sci-fi, space opera, Teixcalaan ·
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My general feelings for this book can be summed up as UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson

October 27, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I think I am allergic to Kim Stanley Robinson. Loved the idea behind this book, extremely disliked the execution. I tried reading 2312 years back, and similarly, any cool tingly science feelings I got from that book (which if I’m remembering right, starts with a moving, mechanized city on Mercury) was completely murdered by the boring as hell characters and lack of emotional through-line. I just remember the boredom with that one, but here I was not only bored but frustrated and annoyed by KSR’s attempt […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, hard sci-fi, kim stanley robinson, mars, narfna, red mars, sci-fi

narfna's CBR13 Review No:153 · Genres: Audiobooks, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, hard sci-fi, kim stanley robinson, mars, narfna, red mars, sci-fi ·
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A wondrously weird book. #CBRBINGO – Free!

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

October 27, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

Thanks to Tor/Forge for the eARC! It has not affected the content of my review. This book was so very weird and so very lovely. I very much enjoyed it. I’ve been dragging my feet on this review but it’s pub day* so I need to buckle down. This is one of those cases where the description really doesn’t do the book justice, and also it very much will not be everyone’s cup of tea, because it resists classification, and takes three very good ideas […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, ARC, cbr13bingo, LGBTQIA, light from uncommon stars, narfna, Ryka Aoki, sci-fi

narfna's CBR13 Review No:150 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, ARC, cbr13bingo, LGBTQIA, light from uncommon stars, narfna, Ryka Aoki, sci-fi ·
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First it was spiders, then it was octopuses, now it’s . . . everything. Just wait for the bits with the rats.

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky

October 4, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

Adrian Tchaikovsky is obsessed with non-human, non-alien sentience. This book was not what I expected, and yet, makes perfect sense in retrospect. A lot of very similar themes to the Children of Time books. This one didn’t quite fire up my imagination the way the Children of Time books did, but I quite enjoyed it! So, not space opera (like I thought? for some reason???) but multiverse. But, a very unique take on the multiverse. The book starts on a more intimate level, with two […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky, espionage, LGBTQIA, narfna, parallel universes, sci-fi, the doors of eden, the multiverse

narfna's CBR13 Review No:137 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky, espionage, LGBTQIA, narfna, parallel universes, sci-fi, the doors of eden, the multiverse ·
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A mystery on the moon.

The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut, #3) by Mary Robinette Kowal

October 4, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is my favorite of these books so far, but I will admit that there is just something about Kowal’s writing that doesn’t perfectly gel with my tastes. I’m curious enough to keep going to see how this series turns out, but I may need to rethink reading any more of her books (I also was pretty unenthused about the first book in her fantasy-Austen-pastiche series). We switch narrators from Elma York (who is on her way to Mars during the course of this book) […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, alternate history, lady astronaut, Mary Robinette Kowal, mystery, narfna, sci-fi, space travel, the relentless moon

narfna's CBR13 Review No:136 · Genres: Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, alternate history, lady astronaut, Mary Robinette Kowal, mystery, narfna, sci-fi, space travel, the relentless moon ·
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Not a great collection of stories, in my opinion.

A Universe of Wishes by ed. Dhonielle Clayton

October 1, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was a pretty disappointing collection. I only enjoyed a handful of stories. I think the thing that frustrates me the most about YA fantasy and sf recently is that these are the genres of the imagination, and yet so many authors keep telling the same old stories, even, as it turns out, when those stories are populated by a diverse cast of characters, featuring characters of many races, genders, and sexualities. Some of these stories were dull and uninspired, some I thought were just […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, anthologies, Dhonielle Clayton, ed. Dhonielle Clayton, read harder challenge 2021, sci-fi, short stories, we need diverse books, YA, Young Adult

narfna's CBR13 Review No:130 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, anthologies, Dhonielle Clayton, ed. Dhonielle Clayton, read harder challenge 2021, sci-fi, short stories, we need diverse books, YA, Young Adult ·
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