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From the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer's 2017 Compton Crook Award-winning …
From the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada …
Content warning Too like the lightning
I'm like 50% in the book.
I kinda missed societal science-fiction, of the 50-80. This is societal SF from the golden years but written in in XXI century , so without all this patriarchal baggage.
So far I love it.
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Contains appendices and extra material.
Content warning Dune Book spoilers from first chapter // Dune movie spoilers from the first part
Differences between the book and the movie:
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An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control , a thrilling sci-fi tale of …
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Nevare Burvelle was destined from birth to be a soldier. The second son of a …
Content warning Mild spoilers for Shaman's Crossing
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I strongly suspect that other author would condense whole trilogy into a single book. But Hobb has her style and prefer slow narration.
The book tells the story of Nevare, a son to a lord of recently established Lord to conquered territories. He is a son destined to be a solider (according to some religious scriptures). I mildly disliked Nevare, he is young, naive, totally not critical of his own society (which is obviously feudal, colonialist, genocidal, incapable of learning new ideas and what not). Among the brutality of his life he manages to make a few friends, and receive some gentleness.
You can read this as a study on how and why feudal societies, where nobody is truly happy, can subjugate "naive" and "primitive" societies.
The book contains a lot of world-building the next books will build upon.
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"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used …
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"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her …
the back of the book compares the Matilda to the antebellum southern US, in space, but that's far from being an adequate comparison. instead it seems to me an honest portrayal of a possible future—certainly unlikely or impossible in many respects, but in all important ways uncomfortably truthful.
it's not a cheerful story, but it never drags because of this; it is persistently lively. it doesn't inspire despair: there's always a core of resilience even when hope is scarce.
I look forward to reading more of their work.
Nevare Burvelle was destined from birth to be a soldier. The second son of a newly anointed nobleman, he must …
Nevare Burvelle was destined from birth to be a soldier. The second son of a …
Content warning Mild spoilers for Shaman's Crossing
Content warning
I strongly suspect that other author would condense whole trilogy into a single book. But Hobb has her style and prefer slow narration.
The book tells the story of Nevare, a son to a lord of recently established Lord to conquered territories. He is a son destined to be a solider (according to some religious scriptures). I mildly disliked Nevare, he is young, naive, totally not critical of his own society (which is obviously feudal, colonialist, genocidal, incapable of learning new ideas and what not). Among the brutality of his life he manages to make a few friends, and receive some gentleness.
You can read this as a study on how and why feudal societies, where nobody is truly happy, can subjugate "naive" and "primitive" societies.
The book contains a lot of world-building the next books will build upon.
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