Book #25 of 2023: Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty (The Midsolar Murders #1) I really dig the initial premise of this story, which is that the heroine somehow has the bad luck to repeatedly find herself at the scene of one murder after another. (She’s not a killer, to be clear, even though law enforcement …
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Book #172 of 2019: Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty A neat sci-fi murder mystery, sort of like Altered Carbon with less misogyny and more disciplined storytelling. In this setting, cloning is commonplace, and people are supposed to wake up in a new body with their recent memories intact if anything happens to a previous version. …
Book #31 of 2018: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View edited by Elizabeth Schaefer In honor of the 40th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie, this book presents 40 short stories retelling the events of that film from the perspective of various minor characters — from Jawas to stormtroopers to the thing …
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