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Book review: The Interminables
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Book review: The Interminables

Posted on October 7, 2016 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

There’s a guy who can steal time and spend time (and hence is basically immortal) and the conceptual ghost of World War One…who live in the world, where an ancient immortal from the past basically disrupted time/space/other dimensions. It is 100% amazing. Continue reading →

Book review: Archivist Wasp
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Book review: Archivist Wasp

Posted on May 16, 2016 by blogendorff • 4 Comments

Where to begin. There’s such a collision of genres with Nicole Kornher-Stace’s novel that could have gone horribly wrong, but instead it just made me have ALL THE FEELS. It was good on the level of The Doomsday Book or Ancillary Justice. It was just expectation-defyingly excellent in a way that I’m having problems articulating. … Continue reading →

Book review: A Darker Shade of Magic
Book reviews / Fantasy / Top picks

Book review: A Darker Shade of Magic

Posted on May 15, 2016 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

I can’t remember how I came across this book, probably another random search of ‘best sci fi women 2015’ or something like that. Even though it isn’t sci-fi, it’s still a pretty good read. I was very nearly not going to get it as the list made me hate all fantasy novels. However, V E … Continue reading →

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Book review: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

Posted on April 11, 2016 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

For the last 100 pages of this book, I was mainly making incoherent noises at @psythor as all the shit kicked off in the book, with the whole arc of the story winding its way to the end. Most of the incoherent noises were either something along the lines of “omfg they’re so adorable” or … Continue reading →

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Book review: Herding Hemingway’s cats

Posted on January 30, 2016 by blogendorff • 1 Comment

I think if I needed to pick a single word to describe Kat Arney’s first (and fabulous) book on how genes work, it would be irreverent. And I mean that in the best possible way. Full disclosure, I know Kat and have brewed beer with her. To be fair, this is so far a one-off … Continue reading →

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Book review: Station Eleven

Posted on January 17, 2016 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

So, I’m going to start off with a slightly annoyed tangent. When in Toronto at the beginning of this month, we went to a bookstore. I was perusing the science fiction novels and decided I wanted something written by a woman. Nothing on the shelf jumped out (there were the usual familiar names) and so … Continue reading →

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My top reads from 2016

Posted on January 9, 2016 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

So out of my utter annoyance from not being able to find Station Eleven in the science fiction section of a bookstore, I decided that I wouldn’t read any science fiction or fantasy novels in 2016 that were written by white men. That meant that I could read any books by women, or books by … Continue reading →

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Book review: Ancillary Mercy

Posted on November 15, 2015 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

So this is the third in the series, following Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword and it is as excellent and delightful as the other two in the series. It takes place in the same space station as Ancillary Sword but with a whole host of additional problems (including a showdown with Anaander Mianaai who is … Continue reading →

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Book review: The causal angel

Posted on September 26, 2015 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

So. It’s still a bit WTF and I’m still not 100% that I actually understood some of the plot but what a bloody brilliant story. It’s even harder to explain the plot by the third book. Basically, there’s a war and Jean has to rescue Mieli, they each have to steal some stuff, and then … Continue reading →

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Book review: The fractal prince

Posted on September 23, 2015 by blogendorff • 1 Comment

I think my comprehension of the plot has fallen from my 75-80% confidence from The Quantum Thief to perhaps only 65-75% in its sequel. Well, not really, I’m experiencing a bit of a peak-end rule cognitive bias. So. Um. Plot. It’s…uh…complicated. I think, basically, they have to steal the original code of a post-human who … Continue reading →

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