Book #291 of 2020: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back edited by Elizabeth Schaefer To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the second Star Wars movie, this collection presents 40 new stories revisiting its timeline, in the form of either familiar scenes from the perspective of minor film characters or …
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Book Review: The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Book #237 of 2020: The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade #3) On balance I think this latest Baru Cormorant sequel is probably an improvement over the previous volume, but it’s still nowhere near as electrifying as the original novel. The more fantastical additions like self-aware cancers continue to not quite work for …
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Book Review: The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Book #163 of 2020: The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade #2) I love the first volume in this series, a poignant character study of a queer woman sacrificing her morals and steeping herself in the politics of her people’s conquerors in a long game to bring down their bigoted empire from within. …
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Book Review: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Book #196 of 2018: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade #1) A fascinating character and culture study, most reminiscent of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch books. Baru Cormorant is a young woman whose homeland gets annexed by an expanding empire, after which she privately vows to rise through her conquerors’ ranks to take …
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Book Review: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Book #37 of 2017: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade #1) A fascinating character and culture study, most reminiscent of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch books. Baru Cormorant is a young woman whose homeland gets annexed by an expanding empire, after which she privately vows to rise through her conquerors’ ranks to take …
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