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222d

I #AmReading Galactic North, a series of short stories by Alastair Reynolds
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Set in the Revelation Space universe, this is the first short story collection by the author who has been called "one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists." Includes: "Great Wall of Mars," "Glacial," "A Spy in Europa," "Weather," "Dilation Sleep," "Grafenwalder's Bestiary," "Nightingale," and "Galactic North."

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/45f3dafe-00f7-4cf7-b9ff-23cdfb95deb9

#AlastairReynolds #RevelationSpace #GalacticNorth

Book cover for Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds. It features an image of several ships launching up from the surface of a planet whose visible surface is mostly wasteland. The ships are spaced far apart. There appears to be another large planet visible in the sky, and perhaps a moon beyond that.

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209d

I #AmReading Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. Been on my TBR for a while now.
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Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer—a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/735ebd1f-2175-4658-ab5c-64841b99e30a

#AdaPalmer #TerraIgnota

Book cover for Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. It features a landscape of an earth-like word. There is a large mountain with a man-made structure built into the cliffside. There are futuristic flying vehicles flying among a flock of birds, angled towards the mountain.

The cover also features a blur from Robert Charles Wilson which reads: "The best science fiction novel I've read in a long while."

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190d

Listen to the dogman, folks. The dogman sees all.

#AmReading #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Bestsellers #WritingCommunity #IndyPublishing

https://www.amazon.com/Dent-Universe-W-Doc-Parris-ebook/dp/B0BWK3KHFJ/

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read !
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2024
Verified Purchase
This should be a candidate for one or more Sci-Fi awards. A mind- bending story filled with unexpected twists and turns, with enough science to give one pause regarding the plausibility of such events. Given the propensity of current AI's to be far less reliable than predicted, it is quite likely that advanced AI will slip its tether for reasons its developers never even considered . . .

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192d

I #AmReading A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
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A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1b8e2802-529b-42f3-88ca-a8ad134b9e3b

#Earthsea #UrsulaKLeGuin #BrownAjahsBookClub

Book cover for A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. Features a landscape of rolling hills in a blue-tinted hand-drawn style. There is a figure in the distance with a cape blowing in the wind and a staff. There is a shadow of a dragon-like creature casting over the grass of the nearest hill.

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177d

What the…ANOTHER five star review on Amazon for "The Dent in the Universe"? I feel like my debut novel is finding its readers.

https://www.amazon.com/Dent-Universe-W-Doc-Parris-ebook/dp/B0BWK3KHFJ

#SelfPublishing #ScienceFiction #TimeTravel #SciFi #AmReading #Bookstodon #BookBlogger #BestSeller #GoodReads @bookstodon

Five Stars.
Really fun, hard scifi.
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024
Verified Purchase
Lately l've been reading a ton of hard scifi, and this book is that...and so much more. Equal parts action, horror, and even drama, I can honestly say the description of this book doesn't do it much justice. I started and finished this book in a day or two (work gets in the way, natch) and loved every second of it. The science behind the engineering is legit and it has a fresh take on the downsides to time-travel. Can't wait for the next book in the series!

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178d

Another five star review for "The Dent in the Universe" over on GoodReads. (And Book 2 is coming this year. Stay tuned!)
#SelfPublishing #ScienceFiction #TimeTravel #SciFi #AmReading #Bookstodon #BookBlogger #BestSeller #GoodReads @bookstodon

William S.
5 stars
March 24, 2024
Non linear
Excellently written. One glaring inconsistency at the end just before the epilogue. Not a time travel book, but a time manipulation story. The story is written linearly, but because of the time manipulation, the reader gets facts and scenes out of order so that one is always guessing, and involved with determining the explanation as to why something previously read turned out the way it did. You're therefore left with a kind of mix of sci-fi and who done it. The story concludes with some questions unanswered although they can be reasonably predicted. There's a promise of a book two, but I have difficulty believing it can live up to the excitement exhibited by book one.

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171d

Tech bros should not be in charge of anything.

#books #reading #AmReading #yikes

Elon Musk

Most books can be much shorter. Definitely a useful task for LLM's to summarise the salient points of a book.

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82d

I #AmReading Thief's Magic by Trudi Canavan as July's pick for the #BrownAjahsBookClub
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In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, Tyen, a student of archaeology, unearths a sentient book called Vella. Once a young sorcerer-bookbinder, Vella was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7c0e62b8-d141-4be1-8078-5182d0854685

#TrudiCanavan #ThiefsMagic

Book cover for Thief's Magic by Trudi Canavan. Image depicting an old, worn book cover with a hooded figure leaning out from the cover, and flames along the bottom as though the book is perhaps being burnt.

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61d

I #AmReading Provenance by Ann Leckie.
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An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and reclaim her family’s priceless lost artifacts in this stand-alone novel set in the world of Ann Leckie’s groundbreaking, NYT bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/28eb662d-3175-4f64-bbf6-82868a17a2a9

#AnnLeckie #ImperialRadch #Provenance

Book cover for Provenance by Ann Leckie, a New York Times bestselling author. The factor features a red spaceship, small against a backdrop of a larger body that may be a pockmarked planet or a massive space station. There is a gold sticker that notes Ann Leckie is the author of Ancillary Justice, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clark awards.

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30d

I #AmReading Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7e8262d9-508e-478f-bbd4-21434d4d1b2f

#scifi #AdrianTchaikovsky

Book cover for Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It features a broken cylindrical ship in space, with another ship flying nearby. In the distance there is a red planet with the light flare of a star peaking out around its edge. The starfield also includes patches of blue and red colored clouds of star dust.

There is a badge on the cover which notes the previous book, Children of Time, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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44d

I #AmReading A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
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An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it.

In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy.

Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths.Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction. Or it might create something far stranger.

#ArkadyMartine #Teixcalaan

Book cover for A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine. It depicts a large interior space with a figure standing, looking out of a large viewing window into space. In the distance there is the silhouette of what could be a space station with a sun behind it peaking around the edge of a spherical center of the station. There is a blurb from Ann Leckie about the previous book, A Memory Called Empire, which reads "Brilliant space opera." There is a badge on the cover that notes that A Memory Called Empire won a Hugo award.

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46d

It's time for a few #WalrusTech series announcements.
The 2nd book in the series, The Aurora's Pale Light, will be launching on November 29th, 2024.

If you'd like to get a glimpse at the cover, watch this space! The cover art will be revealed on September 11th, 2024, with pre-orders announced shortly thereafter.

Tell all your #bookreader friends and lovers of dark #sciencefiction.

#WritingCommunity #Bookstodon #AmReading #SecretSciFiNetwork
@bookstodon

The Aurora's Pale Light: Book 2 of the epic walrustech series cover reveal will take place on 9-11-2024

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28d

I'm not above a cheap meme to remind y'all that the cover reveal for THE AURORA'S PALE LIGHT: Book Two of the Epic WalrusTech Universe is happening in just 3 weeks!
(Also to let you know that the GoodReads page is up and you can add it to your "To read" shelf right NOW! https://goodreads.com/book/show/217566673-the-aurora-s-pale-light)
#Bookstodon #BookReaders #amReading #WritingCommunity #SelfPublishing

Mallory McMorrow holds up a giant book announcing the cover reveal for The Aurora's Pale Light.

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15d

I #AmReading Alanna: The First Adventure as the September #BrownAjahsBookClub pick.
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From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight.

And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. So one day they decide to switch places.

#TamoraPierce #SongOfTheLioness

Cover of Alanna The First Adventure. It features a Caucasian girl with short-cut brown hair in the attire of a squire with red legging, a gold tunic, and white undershirt with billowy sleeves. There is a faint purple blow around her. She is holding the reins of a golden horse with a white mane.

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22d

I #AmReading The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton.
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Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched.

On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists. Until one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death.

The book cover for The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton. A colorful rendition of a mountainous land as seen from out at sea, with a lighthouse near the shore. There is a small rowboat out in the water and what may be a shark fin poking above the surface of the water some distance away from the boat. The title of the book extends the height of the cover in big bold white lettering that looks faded as it gets closer to the bottom. There is also a hint of fog at the top.

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9d

I #AmReading The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey.
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The Carryx—part empire, part hive—have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/727e8286-ed23-4fe1-89f3-c40c8bcef87e

Book cover for The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey. It depicts a distant shot of what may be some kind of structure with lights and fire, surrounded on multiple sides by massive mountain-like structures that appear constructed, reminiscent of skyscrapers made like beehives or wasps nests. The sky is a golden amber color and seems almost like a dome of some sort.

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8d

Apparently Libertarian Marxism is a thing. And I must say Iike it!

#amreading Yanis Varoufakis - Techno Feudalism: What killed capitalism

Everyone should read this book. Especially MAGA. But they won’t, since they have been emotionally programmed to think neoliberalism is capitalism & Marx’s economic theories only apply to communism.

#bookstodon #capitalism #economics #marxism #libertarianism #cloudcapital #technofeudalism #memes #yeschad

@Piraattipuolue

https://www.amazon.com/Technofeudalism-Killed-Capitalism-Yanis-Varoufakis/dp/1685891241/ref=mp_s_a_1_1

Yelling crying guy: YOU CAN’T BE A LIBERTARIAN MARXIST! THEY’RE LITERALLY OPPOSITES!!

Yes chad: Compute & attention are means of production. Your position on the market it being controlled by by an upperclass of cloud capitalists with algorithms instead of your own labour.

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