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When you're at the peak of your powers, there's only one way to go. The question becomes - how many …
Not as much happens as the other ones, but it's a well written and competent war book. I do wish there was more about the Lankies.
"The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden …
Pretty great. The steampunk premise is not nearly as important as the AI question. Which is “what if the only way we could get AI to work for us would be to have another program torture them until they did what we say?”
The resulting society and underclass and uprising writes itself. Pretty neat.
The Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? So he heads …
Overly portentous narrator. Like Wes Anderson wrote a comic book.
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the …
This is a lovely book, although it does not deal as directly with the arcane / occult as the previous book. Also, similar to the last book, there are tidbits which are dropped earlier i.e. "fruit" which are never fulfilled in the conclusion.
For all of that, the writing is clear and the plot is refreshingly unpredictable.
Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case-the hunt for a …
Okay, so... yes, there are dangling plot threads, the initial hook is never explained, and for all the text, Carter and Lovecraft never end up with a whole bunch of agency and derring-do... but it works. It's creepy as hell, and it establishes just how little control humanity has over its own fate.
Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, …
Get ready to change the way you think about economics.
Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical …
