Critiques et Commentaires

Chaos Terminal didn't reel me in like Station Eternity did, and I'm not quite sure why.

It could be that it mainly revolves around Mallory and the visiting humans instead of weird aliens, or that we already met all the weird aliens and CT doesn't give us much of anything new, or it could be that I just didn't like it as much. 🤷

My beautiful and talented wife Christine Love has published a science fiction novel!! It's about girls in space, doing hot girl shit (murder and revolution, I think? I haven't read it, I was waiting until it was finished. I'm gonna go read it). There are swords.

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For launch week the book is on sale, but it was only $5 USD to start with.

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An interesting mix of victorian(?) midwifery and eldritch mysticism. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't as groundbreaking as Our Lady of Endless Worlds.

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The #SFFBookClub pick for October 2025

The #SFFBookClub pick for September 2025

This felt to me like a much more surreal variant of North Continent Ribbon. Each story/chapter was a continuation or a tangent of a previous one, but I don't feel like the whole contributed much to a more coherent understanding of the whole picture. Overall, the vibe was very vague, and I'm not sure how much I took away from the experience.

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The #SFFBookClub selection for August 2025

Cloud Atlas vibes, good writing, great settings

Clever and grim near-future climate catastrophe scifi

Surprisingly (to me) dark fantasy about a girl whose abusive mother is trying to seduce and manipulate her way into the aristocracy

A shallow, funny scifi heist novel, basically a Janet Evanovich in space

BLEAK

I devoured Shroud. This is Adrian Tchaikovsky at his scifi best - truly alien aliens and humans being humans, engrossing drama ensues.