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Roy Adams

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I mainly read sci-fi, mystery, some suspense/horror and the occasional non-fiction.

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reviewed The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear (White Space, #3)

Elizabeth Bear: The Folded Sky (EBook, 2025, Gollancz)

Information doesn’t want to be free. Information wants to vanish without a trace.

Sunya Song’s …

Excellent continuation of White Space series

(Read this early as an ebook ARC from Goodreads giveaway.) An excellent continuation of the White Space series. Sunya and her research are the main contributors to the story progression but many other characters have important roles and contributions. Also, a little discussion about functioning societies and the obligations they entail.

Terry Pratchett: Night Watch (Paperback, 2007, Corgi)

One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath …

Excellent story and character development

Excellent story all round. Vimes develops even more as a character and we get history of the Watch and the city. Along with a good exposition about how the many parts of a society work together despite the deprecations of self-interested fools. I needed that reminder amidst the chaos and deliberate pain of this Trump administration in the US.

Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time (2008)

In Discworld, time is a resource managed by the highly capable Monks of History. Everybody …

A tale of Time

DEATH, Death of Rats, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Auditors, Susan, chocolate and Time. What more could you need in a great story? (Perhaps the Luggage too if you're greedy?)