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- #JustFinished Quantico by Greg Bear (I’m a huge GB fan). A well-paced, near-future (for its 2005 publication date) technothriller. Fun read but not up to Bear’s scifi best. More prescient than comfortable in 2025 as to the dismantling of federal agencies. Worth it! #booksky 💙📚 #scifibooks 🪐📚 #scifi
- #JustFinished The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton. Closed-room mystery/horror on a ship, set in 1634. Read it for the zigs and zags and great cast of characters, not for its historical or seafaring accuracy. Keeps you guessing! Genre-bending and lots of fun. #booksky 💙📚 #mysterybooks
- #JustFinished Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds, which is book 2 of the Revenger series. Another fine addition to this pirate-themed space opera, although the action is dialed back for a more introspective set of character studies. The world-building is the real draw! #booksky 💙📚 #scifibooks 🪐📚
- #JustFinished The Jugger by Richard Stark. Book 6 of the 24 Parker novels, The Jugger differs from the previous books in that there’s no heist—this is a murder mystery through-and-through. Rural setting and a small-town cop that gives off a great Jim Thompson vibe! #booksky 💙📚 #mysterybooks
- #JustFinished Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty @mightymur.bsky.social A fantastic locked-spaceship mystery with a unique premise, perfect pacing, and slippery, multi-faceted characters. Twists and turns abound, but it concludes in a way that respects the reader! #booksky 💙📚 #scifibooks 🪐📚 #mystery
- #JustFinished Tomorrow’s Kin by Nancy Kress and I’m impressed by the premise, the hook, and the hard science. I admit to struggling a bit with the characters and the pacing, which is fast but contrived. A good read and I’m compelled to seek out the sequel nonetheless! #booksky #scifibooks #scifi
- #JustFinished London Match by Len Deighton, the conclusion of the first Bernard Samson trilogy. Thrilling espionage and complex maneuvering keeps one guessing righ to the last page. 80s late Cold War spy stuff done right. Samson makes a great protagonist. #booksky 💙📚 #spyfiction #thrillers
- #JustFinished Reentry by Peter Cawdron @pcawdron.bsky.social This sequel to Retrograde follows astronaut Liz Anderson back to Earth after her harrowing ordeal on Mars. A stunning reunion, a world-wide chase, and unexpected revelations ensue. Thrilling and satisfying! #booksky 💙📚 🪐📚 #scifibooks
- #JustFinished Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social This novel is dense and fecund like its jungle setting, in the best way. An elegy for the last vestige of humanity and its hubris, still hitting hopeful notes. Stellar characters and world-building. #booksky 💙📚 🪐📚 #scifibooks
- #JustFinished The Score by Richard Stark. Book 5 of the Parker series sees Parker throw in with a dozen other men for a heist that’s bigger than anything he’s done before. Things inevitably go sideways. These books are so damn fun to read! #booksky 💙📚 #crimefiction #noirfiction #thriller
- #JustFinished Revenger by Alastair Reynolds. 18th-century pirate aesthetic meets gripping space opera in this absolute triumph of compelling world-building and blistering plot. Rich characters abound in this imaginative wonder by a true master of scifi! #booksky 💙📚 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction
- #JustFinished Mexico Set by Len Deighton. In the second of the Bernard Samson novels, the aftermath of the explosive twist of the last book plays out with a threat of double-cross at every turn. Deighton is a master of dialogue, pacing, and character! So much fun! #booksky 💙📚 #thriller #spyfiction
- #JustFinished Retrograde by Peter Cawdron @pcawdron.bsky.social Tense thriller about a Martian colony beset by increasingly dire straits with a couple of really great twists. Hard sci-fi with lots of excellent detail. A page-turner with brains! #booksky 💙📚 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #thriller
- #JustFinished Rose/House by Arkady Martine @byzantienne.bsky.social This novella hits SO many of my sweet spots: evocative prose, Gibson-esque musings on the nature of intelligence, a small-town cop perhaps too smart for her own good, and a smug AI. Fun! #booksky 💙📚 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction
- #JustFinished The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social Uplifting, comfortable space opera with a great heist angle that still manages big themes around trust, understanding, sense of place, and found family. Warm and engaging! #booksky 💙📚 🪐📚 #scifibooks #sciencefiction
- #JustFinished Berlin Game by Len Deighton, the first (in publication order) of the Bernard Samson spy novels. Spends some time getting going (worth it), but builds to a crazy twist that Deighton pulls off with aplomb and finesse. A Cold War great! Excited for more! #booksky 💙📚 #spyfiction #thriller
- #JustFinished State Tectonics by Malka Older @older.bsky.social The concluding novel in The Centenal Cycle brings it home with excellent political intrigue and deep-dive details that never once slow the pace or distract from the wonderful characters! #booksky 💙📚 #scifibooks 🪐📚 #sciencefiction
- #JustFinished Null States by Malka Older @older.bsky.social and I encourage everyone to read the excellent Centenal Cycle. More importantly, please check Malka’s bio and keep up with her articles/opinion pieces. She is a most important voice in today’s world! We need her! #booksky 💙📚 📚🪐 #scifibooks
- #JustFinished The Practice, the Horizon, and The Chain by Sofia Samatar, a beautifully-written novella that elegantly and forcefully makes the case for empathy and understanding across all the barriers we impose and are imposed on us. Uplifting! #booksky 💙📚 📚🪐 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #readers
- #JustFinished Null States by Malka Older @older.bsky.social and I encourage everyone to read the excellent Centenal Cycle. More importantly, please check Malka’s bio and keep up with her articles/opinion pieces. She is a most important voice in today’s world! We need her! #booksky 💙📚 📚🪐 #scifibooks
