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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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LocusMag recommended reading list for 2025 publications
3 novels are in my tbr
When We Were Real- Daryl Gregory
The Essence - Dave Hutchinson
Shroud - Adrian Tchaikovsky
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
LocusMag recommended reading list for 2025 publications
3 novels are in my tbr
When We Were Real- Daryl Gregory
The Essence - Dave Hutchinson
Shroud - Adrian Tchaikovsky
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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LocusMag recommended reading list for 2025 publications
3 novels are in my tbr
When We Were Real- Daryl Gregory
The Essence - Dave Hutchinson
Shroud - Adrian Tchaikovsky
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
LocusMag recommended reading list for 2025 publications
3 novels are in my tbr
When We Were Real- Daryl Gregory
The Essence - Dave Hutchinson
Shroud - Adrian Tchaikovsky
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
An Idworx mountain bike with a 1x14 Rohloff hub gear and its owner are having a blast in the snow in western Germany...
No freezing of the front derailleur here, since there isn't one... (unlike my other bike) 👍😃
🚲sykkel #bicycle #MTB #Mountainbike 🚴♀️
No freezing of the front derailleur here, since there isn't one... (unlike my other bike) 👍😃
🚲sykkel #bicycle #MTB #Mountainbike 🚴♀️
January 27, 2026 at 10:23 AM
An Idworx mountain bike with a 1x14 Rohloff hub gear and its owner are having a blast in the snow in western Germany...
No freezing of the front derailleur here, since there isn't one... (unlike my other bike) 👍😃
🚲sykkel #bicycle #MTB #Mountainbike 🚴♀️
No freezing of the front derailleur here, since there isn't one... (unlike my other bike) 👍😃
🚲sykkel #bicycle #MTB #Mountainbike 🚴♀️
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"Ice" by Jacek Dukaj ("Lód", 2005 Polish, 2026 English).
The review in Locus Magazine impressed me—but it seems like a challenging text, even for native Polish or English speakers... we'll see.
"Ice" by Jacek Dukaj ("Lód", 2005 Polish, 2026 English).
The review in Locus Magazine impressed me—but it seems like a challenging text, even for native Polish or English speakers... we'll see.
Ice by Jacek Dukaj: Review by Niall Harrison
Ice, Jacek Dukaj (Head of Zeus 978-1-786-69728-8, $35.00, 1200pp, hc) January 2026. It is July 1924, and it is Winter in Europe. Benedykt Gierosławski, a student mathematician the same age as the …
locusmag.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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"Ice" by Jacek Dukaj ("Lód", 2005 Polish, 2026 English).
The review in Locus Magazine impressed me—but it seems like a challenging text, even for native Polish or English speakers... we'll see.
"Ice" by Jacek Dukaj ("Lód", 2005 Polish, 2026 English).
The review in Locus Magazine impressed me—but it seems like a challenging text, even for native Polish or English speakers... we'll see.
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Born with the Dead - Robert Silverberg (1974)
I was lucky enough to read the novella as young adult - that's when I realized what science fiction in the hands of a competent author was truly capable of - it drew me deeply into the genre.
Born with the Dead - Robert Silverberg (1974)
I was lucky enough to read the novella as young adult - that's when I realized what science fiction in the hands of a competent author was truly capable of - it drew me deeply into the genre.
January 14, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Born with the Dead - Robert Silverberg (1974)
I was lucky enough to read the novella as young adult - that's when I realized what science fiction in the hands of a competent author was truly capable of - it drew me deeply into the genre.
Born with the Dead - Robert Silverberg (1974)
I was lucky enough to read the novella as young adult - that's when I realized what science fiction in the hands of a competent author was truly capable of - it drew me deeply into the genre.
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Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932/ 1946)
written as a dystopia on technology, Fordism, & mass culture
1946, Huxley gave it a philosophical re-evaluation and self-criticism in his preface to the otherwise unchanged new edition
Qoute: 'You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books'
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932/ 1946)
written as a dystopia on technology, Fordism, & mass culture
1946, Huxley gave it a philosophical re-evaluation and self-criticism in his preface to the otherwise unchanged new edition
Qoute: 'You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books'
January 9, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932/ 1946)
written as a dystopia on technology, Fordism, & mass culture
1946, Huxley gave it a philosophical re-evaluation and self-criticism in his preface to the otherwise unchanged new edition
Qoute: 'You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books'
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932/ 1946)
written as a dystopia on technology, Fordism, & mass culture
1946, Huxley gave it a philosophical re-evaluation and self-criticism in his preface to the otherwise unchanged new edition
Qoute: 'You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books'
Memories of Ronnie James Dio's fantastic voice!
He gave Rainbow their distinctive sound – alongside Ritchie Blackmore's guitar playing.
youtu.be/iM7PG4CA-2E?...
#musicsky #nowplaying #nowlistening #livemusic
He gave Rainbow their distinctive sound – alongside Ritchie Blackmore's guitar playing.
youtu.be/iM7PG4CA-2E?...
#musicsky #nowplaying #nowlistening #livemusic
Rainbow - Kill The King Live in Munich 1977
YouTube video by Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Memories of Ronnie James Dio's fantastic voice!
He gave Rainbow their distinctive sound – alongside Ritchie Blackmore's guitar playing.
youtu.be/iM7PG4CA-2E?...
#musicsky #nowplaying #nowlistening #livemusic
He gave Rainbow their distinctive sound – alongside Ritchie Blackmore's guitar playing.
youtu.be/iM7PG4CA-2E?...
#musicsky #nowplaying #nowlistening #livemusic
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"Slipstream SF - narratives that contain elements of science fiction but are not marketed as such.
A prominent example is "Never Let Me Go" by Nobel laureate in Literature Kazuo Ishiguro (2005).
Now a re-read of the English original.
"Slipstream SF - narratives that contain elements of science fiction but are not marketed as such.
A prominent example is "Never Let Me Go" by Nobel laureate in Literature Kazuo Ishiguro (2005).
Now a re-read of the English original.
January 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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"Slipstream SF - narratives that contain elements of science fiction but are not marketed as such.
A prominent example is "Never Let Me Go" by Nobel laureate in Literature Kazuo Ishiguro (2005).
Now a re-read of the English original.
"Slipstream SF - narratives that contain elements of science fiction but are not marketed as such.
A prominent example is "Never Let Me Go" by Nobel laureate in Literature Kazuo Ishiguro (2005).
Now a re-read of the English original.
🪐📚 1926- 2026...
One hundred years ago, in 1926, a fan first suggested the term 'science fiction' in Gernsback's first issue of his magazine Amazing Stories…
Wells himself didn't like this term at all; he preferred 'scientific romance', the common term at the time.
One hundred years ago, in 1926, a fan first suggested the term 'science fiction' in Gernsback's first issue of his magazine Amazing Stories…
Wells himself didn't like this term at all; he preferred 'scientific romance', the common term at the time.
January 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM
🪐📚 1926- 2026...
One hundred years ago, in 1926, a fan first suggested the term 'science fiction' in Gernsback's first issue of his magazine Amazing Stories…
Wells himself didn't like this term at all; he preferred 'scientific romance', the common term at the time.
One hundred years ago, in 1926, a fan first suggested the term 'science fiction' in Gernsback's first issue of his magazine Amazing Stories…
Wells himself didn't like this term at all; he preferred 'scientific romance', the common term at the time.
🪐📚 2026 re-read:
John Sladek - Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine (1980)
Roderick is an artificial being, a young electronic genius—with a few minor flaws, of course. He owes his existence to a secret NASA project that—like so many others—fails, a fact that is, as usual, covered up
John Sladek - Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine (1980)
Roderick is an artificial being, a young electronic genius—with a few minor flaws, of course. He owes his existence to a secret NASA project that—like so many others—fails, a fact that is, as usual, covered up
January 1, 2026 at 10:12 AM
🪐📚 2026 re-read:
John Sladek - Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine (1980)
Roderick is an artificial being, a young electronic genius—with a few minor flaws, of course. He owes his existence to a secret NASA project that—like so many others—fails, a fact that is, as usual, covered up
John Sladek - Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine (1980)
Roderick is an artificial being, a young electronic genius—with a few minor flaws, of course. He owes his existence to a secret NASA project that—like so many others—fails, a fact that is, as usual, covered up
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Around Christmas time, I choose reading material to which I have a nostalgic connection. This time a re-read bought for cheap money (2 EUR) from the Thrift store, a hardcover with two classics (German edition 🇩🇪):
Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"
Arthur C. Clarke's "2001 - A Space Odyssey"
Around Christmas time, I choose reading material to which I have a nostalgic connection. This time a re-read bought for cheap money (2 EUR) from the Thrift store, a hardcover with two classics (German edition 🇩🇪):
Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"
Arthur C. Clarke's "2001 - A Space Odyssey"
December 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Around Christmas time, I choose reading material to which I have a nostalgic connection. This time a re-read bought for cheap money (2 EUR) from the Thrift store, a hardcover with two classics (German edition 🇩🇪):
Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"
Arthur C. Clarke's "2001 - A Space Odyssey"
Around Christmas time, I choose reading material to which I have a nostalgic connection. This time a re-read bought for cheap money (2 EUR) from the Thrift store, a hardcover with two classics (German edition 🇩🇪):
Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"
Arthur C. Clarke's "2001 - A Space Odyssey"
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Here we go then! All 150 books i read in the last year, brief remarks and a slightly haphazard ranking for each one. Check it out 👀! 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #wrapup
youtu.be/m68Jww8mDjc
youtu.be/m68Jww8mDjc
I Ranked ALL 150 Science Fiction Books I Read in 2025
YouTube video by SciFiScavenger
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Here we go then! All 150 books i read in the last year, brief remarks and a slightly haphazard ranking for each one. Check it out 👀! 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #wrapup
youtu.be/m68Jww8mDjc
youtu.be/m68Jww8mDjc
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"The Promise of the Child" (Amaranthine Spectrum 1) by Tom Toner (2015)
Is this one of the most underrated authors in recent science fiction?
Toner made his debut with the trilogy The Amaranthine Spectrum, wich he completed with
The Weight of the World
The Tropic of Eternity
Let's find out!🤗
"The Promise of the Child" (Amaranthine Spectrum 1) by Tom Toner (2015)
Is this one of the most underrated authors in recent science fiction?
Toner made his debut with the trilogy The Amaranthine Spectrum, wich he completed with
The Weight of the World
The Tropic of Eternity
Let's find out!🤗
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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"The Promise of the Child" (Amaranthine Spectrum 1) by Tom Toner (2015)
Is this one of the most underrated authors in recent science fiction?
Toner made his debut with the trilogy The Amaranthine Spectrum, wich he completed with
The Weight of the World
The Tropic of Eternity
Let's find out!🤗
"The Promise of the Child" (Amaranthine Spectrum 1) by Tom Toner (2015)
Is this one of the most underrated authors in recent science fiction?
Toner made his debut with the trilogy The Amaranthine Spectrum, wich he completed with
The Weight of the World
The Tropic of Eternity
Let's find out!🤗
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You can't change reality by lying to it.
Adrian Tchaikovsky's dystopian novel "Alien Clay" shows how an autocracy misuses science to justify its ideology of sole dominion on a cosmic scale.
One of the most important novels of 2024
You can't change reality by lying to it.
Adrian Tchaikovsky's dystopian novel "Alien Clay" shows how an autocracy misuses science to justify its ideology of sole dominion on a cosmic scale.
One of the most important novels of 2024
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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You can't change reality by lying to it.
Adrian Tchaikovsky's dystopian novel "Alien Clay" shows how an autocracy misuses science to justify its ideology of sole dominion on a cosmic scale.
One of the most important novels of 2024
You can't change reality by lying to it.
Adrian Tchaikovsky's dystopian novel "Alien Clay" shows how an autocracy misuses science to justify its ideology of sole dominion on a cosmic scale.
One of the most important novels of 2024
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Hiromi Kawakami - "Under the Eye of the Big Bird" (2016 Japanese original)
"Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do; science fiction is that which we're probably not going to see." Margaret Atwood once said.
Hiromi Kawakami - "Under the Eye of the Big Bird" (2016 Japanese original)
"Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do; science fiction is that which we're probably not going to see." Margaret Atwood once said.
December 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Hiromi Kawakami - "Under the Eye of the Big Bird" (2016 Japanese original)
"Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do; science fiction is that which we're probably not going to see." Margaret Atwood once said.
Hiromi Kawakami - "Under the Eye of the Big Bird" (2016 Japanese original)
"Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do; science fiction is that which we're probably not going to see." Margaret Atwood once said.
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Neal Stephenson "Cryptonomicon"
Oops.
Rereading Stephenson's 1999 novel (which won the 2000 Locus Award for Best SF Novel) reveals that it hasn't aged well? 🤔
Floppy disks appear, and the internet is portrayed as a playground for nerds 🤓 who can actually gain MOBILE access!!!
However...
Neal Stephenson "Cryptonomicon"
Oops.
Rereading Stephenson's 1999 novel (which won the 2000 Locus Award for Best SF Novel) reveals that it hasn't aged well? 🤔
Floppy disks appear, and the internet is portrayed as a playground for nerds 🤓 who can actually gain MOBILE access!!!
However...
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Neal Stephenson "Cryptonomicon"
Oops.
Rereading Stephenson's 1999 novel (which won the 2000 Locus Award for Best SF Novel) reveals that it hasn't aged well? 🤔
Floppy disks appear, and the internet is portrayed as a playground for nerds 🤓 who can actually gain MOBILE access!!!
However...
Neal Stephenson "Cryptonomicon"
Oops.
Rereading Stephenson's 1999 novel (which won the 2000 Locus Award for Best SF Novel) reveals that it hasn't aged well? 🤔
Floppy disks appear, and the internet is portrayed as a playground for nerds 🤓 who can actually gain MOBILE access!!!
However...
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Walter M. Miller Jr.'s "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
from 1960 ...
...tells how monks preserve humanity's knowledge in the wake of a nuclear war as civilizations rise, fail, and must repeatedly learn from their mistakes, leaving a glimmer of hope for the future despite recurring disasters
Walter M. Miller Jr.'s "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
from 1960 ...
...tells how monks preserve humanity's knowledge in the wake of a nuclear war as civilizations rise, fail, and must repeatedly learn from their mistakes, leaving a glimmer of hope for the future despite recurring disasters
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Walter M. Miller Jr.'s "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
from 1960 ...
...tells how monks preserve humanity's knowledge in the wake of a nuclear war as civilizations rise, fail, and must repeatedly learn from their mistakes, leaving a glimmer of hope for the future despite recurring disasters
Walter M. Miller Jr.'s "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
from 1960 ...
...tells how monks preserve humanity's knowledge in the wake of a nuclear war as civilizations rise, fail, and must repeatedly learn from their mistakes, leaving a glimmer of hope for the future despite recurring disasters
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Who hasn't experienced this:
You reread a SF novel you absolutely loved in the early days of your SF reading career, hoping to recapture that same feeling from back then. That doesn't happen with most of the stories, but with some, it does: They're timeless!
Spontaneously, I think of:
Who hasn't experienced this:
You reread a SF novel you absolutely loved in the early days of your SF reading career, hoping to recapture that same feeling from back then. That doesn't happen with most of the stories, but with some, it does: They're timeless!
Spontaneously, I think of:
September 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Who hasn't experienced this:
You reread a SF novel you absolutely loved in the early days of your SF reading career, hoping to recapture that same feeling from back then. That doesn't happen with most of the stories, but with some, it does: They're timeless!
Spontaneously, I think of:
Who hasn't experienced this:
You reread a SF novel you absolutely loved in the early days of your SF reading career, hoping to recapture that same feeling from back then. That doesn't happen with most of the stories, but with some, it does: They're timeless!
Spontaneously, I think of:
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"SevenEves" Neal Stephenson from 2015
Neal tells the hard SF story with over 850 pages and combines in the first two thirds Armageddon, genetic engineering and survival in a space habitat towards the end with less than a handful of people surviving (the seven Eves), ...
"SevenEves" Neal Stephenson from 2015
Neal tells the hard SF story with over 850 pages and combines in the first two thirds Armageddon, genetic engineering and survival in a space habitat towards the end with less than a handful of people surviving (the seven Eves), ...
July 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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"SevenEves" Neal Stephenson from 2015
Neal tells the hard SF story with over 850 pages and combines in the first two thirds Armageddon, genetic engineering and survival in a space habitat towards the end with less than a handful of people surviving (the seven Eves), ...
"SevenEves" Neal Stephenson from 2015
Neal tells the hard SF story with over 850 pages and combines in the first two thirds Armageddon, genetic engineering and survival in a space habitat towards the end with less than a handful of people surviving (the seven Eves), ...
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No way... (you get what you asked for)
No way... (you get what you asked for)
July 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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No way... (you get what you asked for)
No way... (you get what you asked for)
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"The Immeasurable Heaven" by Caspar Geon (aka Tom Toner)
... no human characters
...deep time
...awesome worldbuilding
will be released on July,15th
See discussion of Tom's sf new book with Stephen E. Andrews ...cheers, mates! 🍻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7R...
"The Immeasurable Heaven" by Caspar Geon (aka Tom Toner)
... no human characters
...deep time
...awesome worldbuilding
will be released on July,15th
See discussion of Tom's sf new book with Stephen E. Andrews ...cheers, mates! 🍻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7R...
Worldbuilding is Great: CASPER GEON/Tom Toner Interview 'Immeasurable Heaven' #sciencefictionbooks
YouTube video by Outlaw Bookseller
www.youtube.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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"The Immeasurable Heaven" by Caspar Geon (aka Tom Toner)
... no human characters
...deep time
...awesome worldbuilding
will be released on July,15th
See discussion of Tom's sf new book with Stephen E. Andrews ...cheers, mates! 🍻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7R...
"The Immeasurable Heaven" by Caspar Geon (aka Tom Toner)
... no human characters
...deep time
...awesome worldbuilding
will be released on July,15th
See discussion of Tom's sf new book with Stephen E. Andrews ...cheers, mates! 🍻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7R...
Post a robot not from Star Wars or Transformers.
May 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Post a robot not from Star Wars or Transformers.
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"Kefahuchi Tract" Trilogy : Light / Nova Swing / Empty Space
by M. John Harrison
I've struggled through the 850+ pages
ok, check it off my TBR: some really cool snippets of ideas - unfortunately, Harrison doesn't follow them up.
not the kind of space opera of a Banks, Simmons, or Hamilton
"Kefahuchi Tract" Trilogy : Light / Nova Swing / Empty Space
by M. John Harrison
I've struggled through the 850+ pages
ok, check it off my TBR: some really cool snippets of ideas - unfortunately, Harrison doesn't follow them up.
not the kind of space opera of a Banks, Simmons, or Hamilton
May 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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"Kefahuchi Tract" Trilogy : Light / Nova Swing / Empty Space
by M. John Harrison
I've struggled through the 850+ pages
ok, check it off my TBR: some really cool snippets of ideas - unfortunately, Harrison doesn't follow them up.
not the kind of space opera of a Banks, Simmons, or Hamilton
"Kefahuchi Tract" Trilogy : Light / Nova Swing / Empty Space
by M. John Harrison
I've struggled through the 850+ pages
ok, check it off my TBR: some really cool snippets of ideas - unfortunately, Harrison doesn't follow them up.
not the kind of space opera of a Banks, Simmons, or Hamilton
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Gridlinked- Neal Asher (2001)
Asher – the master of dark, action-packed, imaginative space opera e.g. his "Line of Polity" sequence wich has several subseries:
"Gridlinked" is the first of fieve installments of the Agent Cormac series (great follow up "Line of Polity")
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Gridlinked- Neal Asher (2001)
Asher – the master of dark, action-packed, imaginative space opera e.g. his "Line of Polity" sequence wich has several subseries:
"Gridlinked" is the first of fieve installments of the Agent Cormac series (great follow up "Line of Polity")
...
May 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Gridlinked- Neal Asher (2001)
Asher – the master of dark, action-packed, imaginative space opera e.g. his "Line of Polity" sequence wich has several subseries:
"Gridlinked" is the first of fieve installments of the Agent Cormac series (great follow up "Line of Polity")
...
Gridlinked- Neal Asher (2001)
Asher – the master of dark, action-packed, imaginative space opera e.g. his "Line of Polity" sequence wich has several subseries:
"Gridlinked" is the first of fieve installments of the Agent Cormac series (great follow up "Line of Polity")
...