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matchaboba

matchaboba@wyrms.de

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99% space operas and general sc-fi, 1% feminist lecture.

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A. K. DuBoff: Last Stand (Epic Realms Press)
Alice Oseman: This winter (Paperback, Inglés language, 2021, Hachette Romans)
Alice Oseman: Nick and Charlie (AudiobookFormat, 2020, HarperCollins UK and Blackstone Publishing)

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Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter: Time's Eye (2005, Del Rey)

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Derek Künsken: The Quantum Magician (Paperback, 2018, Solaris)
A. K. DuBoff: Lost Planet (Epic Realms Press)
A. K. DuBoff: Stranded (Starship of the Ancients Book 1) (2025, Epic Realms Press)

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reviewed World Engines by Stephen Baxter (World Engines book 1)

Stephen Baxter: World Engines (Paperback, 2020, Orion Publishing Group, Limited) No rating

Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space …

Very mid

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I will give both books the same rating because I read them without pause in between and I cannot remember where one end and the other began.

I would describe this book as mid. It was interesting enough that I finished reading it. I like the characters enough but overall it was waaaaay too slow. I have the feeling a good editor could’ve made this book a success for me. I understand the idea of the book and I really like it, but I think the execution is just not that good.

reviewed World Engines: Creator by Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter: World Engines: Creator (2020, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)

Sequel to World Engines: Destroyer. The combined crews of crashed spaceships from different realities must …

Very mid

I will give both books the same rating because I read them without pause in between and I cannot remember where one end and the other began.

I would describe this book as mid. It was interesting enough that I finished reading it. I like the characters enough but overall it was waaaaay too slow. I have the feeling a good editor could’ve made this book a success for me. I understand the idea of the book and I really like it, but I think the execution is just not that good.

reviewed The three-body problem

The three-body problem (Hardcover, 2018, Head of Zeus)

"1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. …

I tried. 2 times. I failed.

I really tried liking this book. I tried 2 times. I don't know if it's badly translated (I am reading it in german) or if it's always like this. But to me personally it's just waaay to slow and boring. I just don't understand why the book is written this way. Why is so much time spend on the past of the woman? Why is no character interesting?

finished reading Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman

Lauren Fleshman: Good for a Girl (Hardcover, 2023, Penguin Press) No rating

Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren …

Listened to as an audio book during my long runs. It's informative but often waaaaay too deep into her childhood...