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Book Review: The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
The Best of All Possible Worlds involves a science fiction setting vaguely reminiscent of Ursula LeGuin’s Hainish novels (mostly because the worldbuilding involves a loose federation of related humanoid species). Our protagonist is a woman named Delarua who has the task of assisting refugees settling on her home planet. During the course of the novel,…
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Book Review: Sister Mine, by Nalo Hopkinson
Makeda and Abby are formerly conjoined twins who have family problems complicated by half of their family being gods and the other half of their family being the servitors of those gods. The children of a fertility god and a mortal woman, Abby was born with magical abilities related to music, but Makeda was apparently…
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Book Review: Starter Villain by John Scalzi
For some reason, I thought I was going to be reading a superhero novel from someone adjacent to the supervillain’s point of view. I have no idea why I initially thought this, as this is actually Get Smart from someone adjacent to KAOS’ point of view–or rather, to someone adjacent to KAOS’ biggest business rival.…
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Book Review: The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
The Cloud Roads is a fantasy adventure of the improbable yet awesome geography variety. There are floating islands, multiple sentient species and ships that fly. This book reminded me a great deal of Laurie J. Marks Delan, the Mislaid and its sequels, mostly for the multiple sentient species, but also because our protagonist is an…
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