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My name is Kvothe.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned …
I don't usually read much fantasy, but I enjoyed this. The analog to Harry Potter comes from the first book focusing on the main character studies in magic.
Former naval doctor Peter Crane is urgently summoned to a remote oil platform in the …
The book reminds me of Prey by Michael Crichton. The hero goes to an underwater facility, trying to solve what's wrong with the people getting sick, while at the same time unearthing what they in the facility are actually doing and what consequences it has.
Read it in 2 or so days, definitely a page turner.
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Themes revolve around the meaning of life for individuals, which resonated with me. The book is really heavy on the technobabble.
Alien: Out of the Shadows is a 2014 novel written by Tim Lebbon and published …
The book is in between Alien & Aliens and the way it's set up, requires quite a bit of suspension of belief.
An interesting story about a a group of colonists moving to a different star system, but there has been changes in the target planet during the time of the travel.
Often short stories pack a punch due to their short form, but this felt kind of lackluster in that sense.