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reviewed A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden (EBook, 2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 stars

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …

A Half-Built Garden

4 stars

There's really a lot to like here for fans of Story of Your Life/Arrival, Becky Chambers, and/or Adrian Tchaikovsky. I particularly like this take on the nearish future of technology for communication and community decision-making.

I felt like it got a bit preachy at times around the subject of distributed consensus governance, but this is a minor, subjective nitpick.

commented on A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden (EBook, 2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 stars

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …

Content warning early spoiler, fundamental plot basis

reviewed Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Tamsyn Muir: Nona the Ninth (Hardcover, 2022) 4 stars

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is …

Nona the Ninth

5 stars

It shouldn't be possible, after reading Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth, to finish another Locked Tomb novel and yet again be like "What the hell did I just read?!" However.

Nona the Ninth is yet another wonderful, unexpected, weird masterpiece from Tamsyn Muir.