Pseudo Nym
Pseudo Nym  ·  2 months ago

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Finished the 4th book in the Becky Chambers "Wayfarer" series. Strong recommend for "cozy sci-fi". Good tonic for <waves hands vaguely around at everything>.

The sapients are kind, the stories small and intimate and what I needed right now.

What should I read next?

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Alex Keane
Alex Keane  ·  2 months ago

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Reading through books from the "More Reading" list on the #Traveller wiki.

Current book is The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper. I'm just short of halfway through it. I'm really enjoying it, except for where the fact that it's from the early 1960s comes screaming to the foreground with things "but we can't expect the women folk to use logic." Otherwise loving the plot about trying to use an almost religious devotion to a falsity to motivate a community to improve

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Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc
Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc  ·  2 months ago

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Memory fails me. Time for wisdom of crowds.

What is this #scifi book/series from the 70's or early 80's?
▪ human ship encounters alien ship, which ejects its occupants in fear upon detection
▪ humans zoom in on ejected aliens, find they are different sizes, morphologies, two thumbs in each hand.
▪ turns out they're rather teddybear-looking, & with sharp teeth, I think.
▪ books deal with two alien races being puzzled and learning about one another ...

Edit: see title in thread! \o/
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Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:
Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:  ·  3 months ago

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Finished audiobook The Lost Fleet: Courageous by Jack Campbell. #3 in series. Pretty formulaic military space adventure. Captain John "Blackjack" Geary has come back from the dead, or suspended sleep anyway, and has to take control of an Alliance battle fleet in its war against the Syndics. Ambitious fleet commanders try to one-up him at every turn. Cheesy love interest with a politician who for some reason was on the flagship of the fleet. Many battles. Sneaky strategery. Mil-Pulp, if that's what you're looking for. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ #scifi #bookstodon
RanaldClouston
RanaldClouston  ·  4 months ago

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#FinishedReading this great mess of a book. The first act is a nearly plot-free wall of exposition that I only stuck with because I've enjoyed other #NealStephenson before. The second act, with its focus on the character of Nell and her 'magical' book, really clicked me for me and sucked me in. And then the final act was an avalanche of plot developments and the characters went missing. Disappointing. #Bookstodon#SciFi @bookstodon
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