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enne📚 commented on Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba (Stormbringer Saga, #1)

Gabriella Buba: Saints of Storm and Sorrow (2024, Titan Books Limited)

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In this an enthralling Filipino-inspired epic fantasy, a nun concealing a goddess-given gift is unwillingly …

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Tak! commented on In Universes by Emet North

Emet North: In Universes (2024, Cornerstone Publishing)

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For fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Kelly Link, a profoundly imaginative debut novel …

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Tak! quoted The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time (Hardcover, 2024, Simon & Schuster)

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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …

Never tell a workplace or a lover anything that might cause them to terminate your relationship until you’re ready to leave.

— The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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Tak! quoted The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …

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She came back with a glass of chilled red wine, which I hadn’t realized was a drink you could get on purpose.

— The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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Tak! quoted The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …

Perhaps he’ll die this time.

— The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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Tak! commented on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …

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Tak! commented on Countess by Suzan Palumbo

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A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which …

I really dig the premise, but the execution bothered me a lot. Maybe they were just trying to do too much in a novella length, or maybe it's just me, but everything just felt rushed and clumsy. 🤷

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Tak! quoted Countess by Suzan Palumbo

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A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which …

It had been a productive day. Too productive.

— Countess by Suzan Palumbo

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Tak! quoted Countess by Suzan Palumbo

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A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which …

Space colonization had not been the great equalizer the capitalist billionaires had advertised.

— Countess by Suzan Palumbo

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Tak! quoted Countess by Suzan Palumbo

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A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which …

Acting Captain Virika Sameroo abandoned her seat and stood ramrod stiff behind the Oestra’s navigator after it jolted through the Invictan region skip gate.

— Countess by Suzan Palumbo

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Tak! commented on Countess by Suzan Palumbo

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A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, in which …

The #SFFBookClub pick for April 2025

Tak! reviewed These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein

Izzy Wasserstein: These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart (EBook, 2024, Tachyon Publications)

Security expert Dora left her anarchist commune over safety concerns. But when her ex-girlfriend Kay …

Short and bitter

5 stars

These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart is a vignette about working through guilt and self-loathing toward self-forgiveness.

There's a lot going on in terms of themes: gender, transhumanism, anarchy and fascism, cloning, all mixed into a more standard crime plot.

Although the main thread is satisfactorily wrapped up, there's definitely room to explore the world further - I want more Dora!

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Tak! quoted These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein

Security expert Dora left her anarchist commune over safety concerns. But when her ex-girlfriend Kay …

I hadn’t seen Juan in years, not since I left the commune.

— These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein

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enne📚 commented on These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein

Security expert Dora left her anarchist commune over safety concerns. But when her ex-girlfriend Kay …

The #SFFBookClub pick for March 2025.

Tak! reviewed Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …

Those Beyond the Wall

5 stars

A very different book than The Space between Worlds, but equally good.

While TSBW kind of revolved around the interworld travel premise, Those Beyond the Wall is firmly rooted in "Earth 0"'s Ashtown. Mr. Scales has a wildly different perspective on the Ashtown oligarchy and culture than Cara did, and it's kind of fascinating to see some of the blind spots the author built in. Despite the very different plot foci, there are similar strong themes of antifascism, anticolonialism, and the struggle for justice.

It's even more gritty than the original, yet potentially more hopeful as well.

I would strongly recommend reading TSBW first, because a lot of the setting is taken for granted here.

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