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urmaul rated The Kaiju Preservation Society: 4 stars
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That …
Humble Pi by Matt Parker
What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building …
urmaul rated Will Save The Galaxy For Food: 4 stars
Will Save The Galaxy For Food by Yahtzee Croshaw (Jacques McKeown, #1)
A not-quite epic science fiction adventure about a down-on-his luck galactic pilot caught in a cross-galaxy struggle for survival! Space …
urmaul rated Dimension of miracles: 4 stars
Dimension of miracles by Robert Sheckley (Dimension of miracles, #1)
Dimension of Miracles is a satirical science fiction novel first published by Dell in 1968. It's about Tom Carmody, a …
urmaul rated This Is How You Lose the Time War: 4 stars
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
urmaul rated The Dilly Files: 5 stars
The Dilly Files by Dilly Iteration FMJ8849
In his newest book, Dilly Iteration FMJ8849 takes some of the glib science and fringe heterodoxy surrounding the possibility of …
urmaul rated Leviathan Falls: 5 stars
Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #9)
The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the …
urmaul rated Embroidered Worlds: 4 stars
Embroidered Worlds by Elizabeth Bear, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Yuriy Vynnychuk, and 26 others
A desperate trek through the icy canyons of Mars, a doll-sized family with giant-sized opinions, a defiant princess whose fate …
urmaul rated Tiamat's Wrath: 5 stars
Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #8)
Tiamat's Wrath is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty …
What If? by Randall Munroe (What If?, #1)
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, …
urmaul rated Persepolis Rising: 5 stars
Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #7)
In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives …
urmaul rated Babylon's Ashes: 5 stars
Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #6)
A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.
The Free Navy - a violent …
urmaul reviewed A City on Mars by Zach Weinersmith
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - …
"A City On Mars" is a great book
5 stars
urmaul rated Chokepoint Capitalism: 5 stars
Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and …