Arcadia by Iain Pears
In Cold War England, Professor Henry Lytten, having renounced a career in espionage, is writing a fantasy novel that dares …
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drone509 rated Less: a novel: 4 stars
Less: a novel by Andrew Sean Greer
Who says you can't run away from your problems?
You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A …
drone509 rated Ways of Being: 2 stars
Ways of Being by James Bridle
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans - or do we share it with …
drone509 rated The Dawn of Everything: 4 stars
The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow, David Graeber
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. …
drone509 rated Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: 5 stars
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the debut novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. Published in 2004, it is an …
drone509 rated Spook country: 3 stars
Spook country by William F. Gibson
Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita …
drone509 rated Zero History (Blue Ant, #3): 4 stars
Zero History (Blue Ant, #3) by William F. Gibson
Zero History is a novel by William Gibson published in 2010. It concludes the informal trilogy begun by Pattern Recognition …
drone509 rated Pattern Recognition: 5 stars
Pattern Recognition by William F. Gibson (Blue Ant, #1)
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given …
drone509 rated The Blacktongue Thief: 5 stars
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An …
drone509 rated A Psalm for the Wild-Built: 3 stars
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
drone509 rated Sea of Tranquility: 4 stars
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
drone509 rated Red Team Blues: 4 stars
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works.
Martin Hench …