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Setting is reminiscent of “A Deepness In the Sky” by Vernor Vinge. A depressed but highly technological anthropologist helps save a lost colony fallen to medieval tech. I couldn’t help buying some tarot cards after reading.

A little slow in parts, but feels like working through a magnum opus. Great characterization of different types of people. Writing style is reminiscent of Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde, but thematically modern. Historical fantasy following two magicians as Fae magic returns to 19th century England. I want to see a realistic, flawed, yet optimistic vision of the future, but this wasn’t it. I really loved the Stone Sky books, and my politics almost totally align with the author but this one was a bit too much of a political polemic for me. Clueless drone from a libertarian billionaire civilization returns to a solarpunk earth. I admire greatly the way he imagines a flawed but idealistic civilization, dealing with the chaos and cruelty of reality. I have never read a not-great book by Ian M Banks, may he RIP.

The interpersonal interactions are sharp and intelligent, and I loved the characters and the Aztec/flower/blood sacrifice world building. Many science fiction authors nail the technology but appear utterly clueless when it comes to the mechanisms of culture (KSR, looking at you). An ambassador to a stellar empire navigates between her love for the imperial culture and loyalty to her native station state. A Memory Called Empire / A Desolation Called Peace – Arkady Martineĥ/5. The setting is novel and interesting but could have been a little more internally consistent and solid. Loved the costume and visual descriptions, especially learning many new words (Kaftan? Jambiya?).

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An investigator unravels a sinister plot in a WW1 era Cairo Egypt full of of djinn, clockwork, angels, and magic. There are plot holes, which are admittedly probably impossible to avoid in a story of this scope. Thematically the lack of agency for the quadrillions of non-space-billionaires in the story is a little disappointing but not unexpected. I had trouble putting it down and enjoyed the characters, plot and the every-technology-but-FTL setting. Space aristocrats uncover a terrible secret about their past in this galactic epic spanning millions of years. In the order of reading House of Suns – Alistair ReynoldsĤ/5.

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