sci fi
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the Cluedo challenge by @chapter1.page1, finding book titles to answer the questions Who was the murderer? Where did the crime occur? With what was the murder committed? “Where” in Cluedo refers to a room in a house, but I don’t have any book titles in my collection that…
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Many thanks to @taherasplace for tagging me in the One Word Title challenge by Dee @chapter1.page1 for the #oldskoolchallengeclub. I had a look through my ebook collection and came up with these 10 books. Alice by Gary Gautier From Goodreads: Alice’s commune seems a small hippie utopia in a dreamlike forest, but the utopian surface…
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Nobody ever believed that murders “just happened” around Mallory Viridian. Not at first, anyway. Imagine living the life of a murder mystery heroine. It might sound fun at first, but imagine finding dead bodies every time you move, start a new job, go to a party or simply take a walk. Imagine the suspicion and…
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There was nothing safe; there were only gradations of exposure to danger. Mahit Dzmare is the newly appointed ambassador to the Teixcalaanli Empire. Coming from a small, independent mining Station, Mahit’s diplomatic mission is to try to ensure that the Empire allows the Station to continue to stay independent while still allowing for trade and travel…
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A dystopian novel depicting a society in a not so distant future, where people are so desperate for order that they willingly embrace surveillance, government control, and the slow but steady replacement of human interaction, accountability, and sensibility with machines and algorithms. Democracy and freedom are long-lost ideals, sacrificed on the altar of innovation and…
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Book 1 in the The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti Series. Mossa is an investigator on Giant, the planet humans have settled on after leaving Earth uninhabitable. She is highly intelligent, deeply enigmatic and somewhat socially inept. Pleiti is her ex girlfriend, a researcher studying ecosystems in the hopes of one day contributing to a…
