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I like to read

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Sofia Samatar: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain 5 stars

The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels …

Sofia Samatar: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (EBook, 2024, Tor Publishing Group) 5 stars

The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels …

The boy was taken upstairs without warning, unprotesting as he had been through all the changes in his seventeen years, the shifts from cell to cell each time he outgrew the bolt on his ankle and the Doctor came to exchange it for a larger one, an operation performed with a tool the Hold people called the Mallet, which jarred the whole leg and sometimes made the blood spray from the anklebone, and caused a sense of queasiness and superstitious awe in the boy, who would glimpse, for the instant during which the bolt and chain were removed, the shiny and alien-looking patch of underexposed skin on his leg which, according to the prophet, housed the seat of the soul.

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Yume Kitasei: The Deep Sky (2023, Flatiron Books) 4 stars

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …

The Deep Sky

4 stars

A great combination scifi thriller / space whodunit. It's much more Serious than The Stardust Grail, but explores some similar themes, e.g. betrayal and loss.

Emma Mieko Candon: The Archive Undying (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 stars

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko …

The Archive Undying

4 stars

The Archive Undying is a kind of postapocalyptic fantasy kaiju novel that (d?)evolves into a philosophical treatise on the nature of the self. It's entertaining and extremely well written, but I got plot twist exhaustion after a while.