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a publié une critique de Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew par Veo Corva

Veo Corva: Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew (EBook, 2024, Witch Key Fiction)

Luxorian is a dragon without a rider, and that's a problem.

Since ancient times, dragons …

Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew

Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew is first and foremost a novella about space dragons, or at least one particular space dragon.

However, it is also about recovering from abusive relationships, building a family, doing and being more than others believe you can, and thriving in a universe where everything is built for beings of different sizes, shapes, and abilities.

If any of this resonates with you, or even if you're just in the mood for a wonderfully-written, bite-sized space opera, go and read Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew! Space Dragons!

a publié une critique de Dirt Town par Hayley Scrivenor

Hayley Scrivenor: Dirt Town (2022, Macmillan Publishers Limited)

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in …

Dirt Town

This is a novel so Australian that it goes from Milo to "no worries" to lamington in the course of a single paragraph.

Apart from that, it's kind of a typical crime novel following the investigation of a young teenage girl's disappearance.

The most interesting thing it does, in my opinion, is, among the chapters following various characters' viewpoints, adding "we" chapters that are meant to be kind of a combined viewpoint of the town's kids.

a commenté The Mimicking of Known Successes par Malka Older (Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Older: The Mimicking of Known Successes (Hardcover, 2023, Tordotcom)

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …

a commenté Death of the Author par Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor: Death of the Author (William Morrow)

The future of storytelling is here.

Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing …

My forthcoming novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR (Jan 2025) is about death, disability, ability, the complexity of culture, immigrants & the next generations, machines, AI, gun ownership, creative writing, the space race, so much more. At its heart, it's about the power of STORYTELLING. And it has a hell of an ending.

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a publié une critique de Cascade Failure par L. M. Sagas

L. M. Sagas: Cascade Failure (2024, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust …

Cascade Failure

Cascade Failure is an action-packed scifi novel about a ragtag spaceship crew of misfits that gets involved in Significant Events. It's snappy and engaging, but it's not heavy on horizon-expanding content - it feels a bit like a space-opera version of a Tales of the Ketty Jay novel

a publié une critique de Sleeping Car Porter par Suzette Mayr

Suzette Mayr: Sleeping Car Porter (2022, Coach House Books)

The Sleeping Car Porter

The Sleeping Car Porter is kind of an ensemble farce with subtle paranormal elements, experienced through a porter for a sleeping car on a transcontinental voyage across Canada.

The porter is a gay (or bi?) black man in Canada in the 1920s, and there's a strong focus on the various aggressions and disadvantages he's exposed to in light of that.

Weird and enjoyable.

a commenté Rust Atomics and Locks par Mara Bos

Mara Bos: Rust Atomics and Locks (2022, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated) Aucune note

The Rust programming language is extremely well suited for concurrency, and its ecosystem has many …