Critiques et Commentaires

joachim

joachim@lire.boitam.eu

A rejoint ce serveur il y a 4 années, 10 mois

I mostly read SF&F. My 2021, 2022

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Languages: fr, en.

DM me if you want to read books that I've read, I can lend most of them as ePubs.

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a publié une critique de The wild dead par Carrie Vaughn (Bannerless, #2)

Carrie Vaughn: The wild dead (2018)

"A Mariner Original Mysteries and murder abound in the sequel to Carrie Vaughn's post-apocalyptic mystery …

Good post-apocalyptic fiction about rebuilding communities

The Bannerless saga is an interesting thought experiment into what makes communities. Is it common rules? Is it enforcement of said rules? Is it caring for people even if rules are broken?

I like that the "investigators" provide a service and are not just blind enforcers of law, the main character could be seen as a cop but the book is low on copaganda. It could be seen as anarchism in practice.

a publié une critique de A Desolation Called Peace par Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan, #2)

Arkady Martine: A Desolation Called Peace (EBook, 2021, Pan Macmillam)

An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with …

Arkady Martine has outdone herself.

Better than the first installment of the series. The characters are more rounded, the story around the first contact with an alien species can be read on many levels and is much more adapted to a SF setting than the first installment. I hope there'll be another book telling what happens with Mahit and Three Seagrass!

Ursula K. Le Guin: Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 1 (LOA #296): Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of  Darkness / ... of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition) (Hardcover, 2017, Library of America)

The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish …