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Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (Paperback, 2015, Tor)
Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tor)
Michael Ende: Der satanarchäolügenialkohollische Wunschpunsch (Paperback, German language, 1998, Heyne Verlag)

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commented on Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

  • June 8
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Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (Paperback, 2015, Tor)

Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed …

this could be so much fun to read if for a moment the author'd forget his obsession with evolution as a clear progression towards (potentially godlike) intelligence …

(also he's eaten Hobbes whole, but I feel that's kinda on par with most "hard" sci-fi written by men. for some reason they like their philosophies nasty, brutish, and ~~short~~ english 🫠)

reviewed Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary (Paperback, 2021) No rating

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller …

a book best described as "it's by andy weir, what else did you expect?"

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Fun to read, but you can kinda see the gears of the story turning in the background (as in, it's not got much depth to it). To be read similar to The Martian: fun "hard" science fiction, not queer or interested in social implications at all, and the parts on earth are best read as necessary background knowledge to make the rest of it work and nothing else (and unfortunately that framing device worked less well for me here than it did in The Martian)

Other than that, it's fun! Made for very good escapist reading when I needed that, so,