finished reading Leviathan Wakes 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
What's all the fuss? Just a space thriller with so-so characters. A gritty future where humanity has colonised the solar system, but it's as corporate, politically riven & prejudiced as today. Some intrigue and a fair bit of action, but to what end?
finished reading Ocean's Echo 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
A queer romance set in a space-faring future where humans have developed telepathic abilities. Two telepaths are thrown together by political expediency, and despite initial incompatibility (they are both very different sorts of neurodiverse) they build a strong partnership, and eventually love. The two protagonists are well portrayed, and very likeable despite their foibles.
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finished reading Record of a Spaceborn Few 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
Centuries after sending colonies into space as insurance against Earth's collapse, humans have integrated into alien civilisation. But now what purpose do those colonies serve, and what happens to their distinctive communal culture? Good premise & great world-building but not much plot, with a few too many characters.
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Ignore this post. I need to pin my bio hashtags in a post because the bio links frustratingly break out of the advanced web view in this Mastodon build and they're my shortcut way of browsing posts. Hoping they fix this in a later build.
finished reading Sleeping Giants 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Sylvain Neuval.
An alien artifact triggers a race to harness its immense power. Told mostly via interview transcripts, which kinda works (I liked how the interviewer gradually becomes more of a protagonist, and more invested in the interviewees) but doesn't do justice to the action sequences. Smoking Man X-Files vibes.
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Thousands of years from now... humans have long since left a depleted Earth, and much of what we know about it is forgotten or confused.
But the arts are thriving, and two drama graduates find something unexpected when they make a pit stop to find parts to fix their tea machine...
An Unscheduled Stop: a short story inspired by Orford Ness
https://www.draliceviolett.com/an-unscheduled-stop/
