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Der Urvater aller Blutsaugerromane machte bei seinem Erscheinen, 1897, Furore. »Keine Lektüre für Schwachnervige« kündigte die Werbung für die deutsche …
Haben wir die Zeiten des Imperialismus nicht längst hinter uns gelassen?
Wenn man erwägt, in welchem Maße sich der Globale …
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
Not quite as good as Network Effect, perhaps because ART is less involved this time. The first couple of chapters also confused me a bit -- I felt like I'd been dropped into the middle of a book and had missed the build-up -- but once I got past that it was a ton of fun.
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
I gained interesting insights, ART-drone said. You should stop worrying. Yeah, I'll just code a patch to stop feeling anxiety, wow, why didn't I think of that earlier. (That was sarcasm, I have too much organic neural tissue for that to work.) (Of course I've already tried it.)
— System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) (Page 173)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been …
For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of …
The first half of the book consists of pretty much a chapter per century, starting with the original sources and then walking through Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, Malory, and so on. This part seemed consistently excellent, to me. The second half is much more patchy, consisting of chapters on different themes in Arthurian literature, such as the relationship between Christianity and magic or the attempt to map the Arthurian legend onto the real geography of Britain. Some chapters are really interesting and others... less so.
Take Us to a Better Place is a collection of powerful, perceptive, and seamlessly crafted fiction that tells multiple truths …
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re …
Such a fun read! Action-packed, almost breathlessly so, with much less of the exposition that I think slowed down the later novellas, still plenty of humour, but also deeper relationship-building. Murderbot (aka 'SecUnit', when it wants to be less, I don't know, murderey) remains easily the most relatable character in today's fiction.
