joël rated The Ghost Brigades: 4 stars
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
The Ghost Brigades is a science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi, the second book set in his Old …
weird. very.
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I like sci-fi, plants, public transport, ttrpgs, lasagna, birds. Thinking a lot about the apocalypse, the climate, monsters and queerness.
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joël rated Old Man’s War: 4 stars
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #1)
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in …
Mühsam by Jan Bachmann
Der junge Lübecker Poet und Anarchist Erich Mühsam (1878–1934) wird im Sommer 1910 von seinen besorgten Brüdern auf Kur in …
joël rated Provenance: 4 stars
Provenance by Ann Leckie
A stand-alone adventure set in the world of Ancillary Justice. Ingray has just one chance to secure the status she …
joël rated EGOs. Volume 1, Quintessence: 4 stars
joël rated Death's End: 5 stars
Death's End by Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #03)
Death's End (Chinese: 死神永生, pinyin: Sǐshén yǒngshēng) is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is …
Raum by Suzanne Toren, Robert Petkoff, Emma Donoghue, and 2 others
Room (London: Picador; Toronto: HarperCollins Canada; New York: Little Brown, 2010), Emma Donoghue's Man-Booker-shortlisted seventh novel, is the story of …
joël rated The Dark Forest: 4 stars
The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Ken Liu, Joel Martinsen
Sequel to The Three-Body Problem.
joël rated 3/11 - Tagebuch nach Fukushima: 5 stars
Nimona by ND Stevenson
From the Publisher:
A National Book Award Longlist Title
The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on …
joël rated Three-Body Problem Series: 5 stars
joël reviewed Black Hole by Charles Burns
The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague …
Review of 'Black Hole' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
joël rated In Real Life: 4 stars
In Real Life by Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang
From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look …
joël reviewed Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find …
Review of 'Children of Time' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Never thought i would actually root for a spider civilisation. Yet, i did. The story had quite a long start, and while the human-part got a bit repetitive, I really enjoyed the struggels of the artificially enhanced spiders. Very intelligent and satisfing science fiction.