Book #7 of 2024: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi edited by Tom Hoeler Another batch of 40 stories to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a Star Wars movie, this one centered around the background characters and/or events of Episode VI, Return of the Jedi. Some of these entries …
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Book Review: The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon
Book #2 of 2024: The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon (The Downworld Sequence #1) This is my least-favorite sort of science-fiction, where the fundamental worldbuilding mechanics that underpin the premise are so opaque that the action is rendered basically incomprehensible. The general idea here is that certain all-powerful AIs once ruled the world, before …
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