Tag: sci-fi
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Quick Thoughts: Caliban’s War/Abaddon’s Gate (Paperback)
I’ve recently read the second and third instalments in the Expanse series near-enough back-to-back, so I’m truncating my (spoiler-free) reviews into one post! Caliban’s War was a suitable escalation of the events at the climax of Leviathan Wakes, and it was, for me, a great ride all the way through! Yes, the similarities between the…
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Review: Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
This book was really good. Seeing as it’s been a considerable while since I read a pure space opera, I did have a few misgivings, but Leviathan Wakes dispensed with enough of the archetypal space opera tropes that can make it an esoteric and insular subgenre of science fiction – while retaining enough to make…
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Review: Armada (Paperback)
I loved Ready Player One. It was absolutely one of the best books that I’ve read in recent times, and I was pretty honoured when one of my closest friends (and his dad) agreed about how awesome it was. What hooked me with Ready Player One was the dystopian setting, the quest set within this…
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