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Book review: If Then
Book reviews / Non fiction

Book review: If Then

Posted on January 24, 2021 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

What the book describes is the Simulmatics company, which got its life by trying to model the behaviour of electors in the 1960 election for the Democrats. But basically, it wasn’t a very good company, partly due to people and partly down to it basically being too early for its own good. Continue reading →

Book review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Book reviews / Fantasy

Book review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Posted on January 18, 2021 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

So what’s it about. At its heart is a Faustian bargain: Addie gives her soul to an old god in exchange for time and freedom. She’s in 18th century France and about to be shipped off to marry the town widower and it’s not what she wants for her life Continue reading →

Book review: Jillian vs Parasite Planet
Book reviews / Science Fiction

Book review: Jillian vs Parasite Planet

Posted on January 14, 2021 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

Jillian is a young girl who has anxiety. She’s trying to keep it all together for a take your kid to work day, because her parents have the coolest job: they go to other planets to collect resources Continue reading →

Book review: Kingdom of Lies, Adventures in Cybercrime
Book reviews / Non fiction

Book review: Kingdom of Lies, Adventures in Cybercrime

Posted on January 10, 2021 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

The stories centre around different criminal and non-criminal elements, all enmeshed in either committing or combatting cybercrime Continue reading →

Book review: Seven of Infinities
Book reviews / Science Fiction

Book review: Seven of Infinities

Posted on January 3, 2021 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

This story centres around Vân (a scholar and teacher) and Sunless Woods, who is a mind ship and a scholar as well. Or so they both seem to be at the beginning, but then their real identities emerge through the story, as they both try to unravel a mystery. Continue reading →

Book review: Silk and Steel
Book reviews / Fantasy / Science Fiction

Book review: Silk and Steel

Posted on December 17, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

This was a kickstartered anthology (which I contributed to), which takes the speculative tropes of a man rescuing a woman (and them falling for each other), but in this case they are both women. Continue reading →

Book review: Prime Meridian
Book reviews / Science Fiction

Book review: Prime Meridian

Posted on December 12, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

The story centres around Amelia, who had to give up on her dreams and university to care for her sick mother. But through it all, she keeps dreaming of going to Mars. Continue reading →

Book review: Irrationality
Book reviews / Non fiction

Book review: Irrationality

Posted on December 7, 2020 by blogendorff • 1 Comment

It is very much like Thinking, fast and slow, in that it details the various ways that our brain works against us when it comes to being rational. Continue reading →

Book review: The City We Became
Book reviews / Fantasy

Book review: The City We Became

Posted on December 1, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

The plot is basically cities are ‘born’, in that the accrue enough history, myths and legends that they pierce through different realities to become a living breathing thing, with a human avatar that becomes its champion. Continue reading →

Book review: How to Suppress Women’s writing
Book reviews / Non fiction

Book review: How to Suppress Women’s writing

Posted on November 24, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

Joanna Russ methodically goes through the various reasons, throughout the decades, that women’s (and other marginalised groups) writing is classed as inferior. Continue reading →

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