Troika by Alastair Reynolds
4/5
Stonking little novella.
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
4/5
Makes sense...
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The Land of Later on by Anthony Weller
4/5
Probably not what happens when you die... but you never know.
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Shift Omnibus Edition (Wool, #6-8) by Hugh Howey
3/5
I read this straight after the Wool series. The Shift trilogy fills in the back story of how the silos were created and then starts to overlap with the events from Wool. Shift didn't have quite the same tension as Wool and I didn't care about the characters as much. Still hooked though and can't wait for Dust later this year...
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2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
2/5
I always want to like Kim Stanley Robinson a lot more than I do. The setup here is an interesting mystery set in a fascinating fully populated Solar System and if 2312 delivered on this premise it could have been a great book. But it's bogged down with exposition and a lengthy middle section on randomly repopulating extinct mammals and ended up just being a slog for me.
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2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
2/5
I always want to like Kim Stanley Robinson a lot more than I do. The setup here is an interesting mystery set in a fascinating fully populated Solar System and if 2312 delivered on this premise it could have been a great book. But it's bogged down with exposition and a lengthy middle section on randomly repopulating extinct mammals and ended up just being a slog for me.
Phantom (Alexander Hawke, #7) by Ted Bell
2/5
Sigh. The man can contradict himself in the space of a single sentence. Must stop...
Skios by Michael Frayn
4/5
Perfectly well oiled comedy of errors.
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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
5/5
Epic Murakami, set in a maybe-alternate-universe version of 1984. There is a definite change in tone in the third book, hard to tell if this is the story of the change in translator but the story sags slightly before picking up the pace again at the end. Even without this it's a long and sprawling book which you'll love if you like Murakami's tone and unique characterization. I'm in the love camp.
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