anticonnor rated The Name of the Wind: 3 stars
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
"The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan …
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anticonnor rated The Blind Assassin: 2 stars
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story …
Barsk: the elephants' graveyard : an anthropomorphic novel by Lawrence M. Schoen
"An historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the past. A child who feels no pain and who …
anticonnor rated Roadside Picnic: 3 stars
Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
A troubled man leads a writer and a scientist into "The Zone", a mysterious area where the laws of physics …
anticonnor rated Sandman Slim: 3 stars
Richard Kadrey: Sandman Slim (2009, Eos)
Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
Working as a sideshow gladiator in Hell after being snatched by demons at the age of nineteen, James Stark escapes …
anticonnor rated The sparrow: 2 stars
The sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (Ballantine reader's circle)
The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes …
anticonnor rated Blood Music (Ibooks Science Fiction Classics): 2 stars
Blood Music (Ibooks Science Fiction Classics) by Greg Bear
In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of …
anticonnor rated Lexicon: 3 stars
anticonnor rated Babel-17: 4 stars
Samuel R. Delany: Babel-17 (1976, Gregg Press)
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (The Gregg Press science fiction series)
anticonnor rated Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1): 3 stars
anticonnor rated Raising Stony Mayhall: 3 stars
Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory
After a zombie attack, Wanda Mayhall rescues a near-dead infant on the side of a frozen Iowa highway and decides …
anticonnor rated The Martian: 5 stars
The Martian by Andy Weir (The Martian, #1)
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one …
anticonnor rated You: 4 stars
anticonnor rated The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3): 3 stars
Stephen King: The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3) (2003)
The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3) by Stephen King
Part III of an epic saga. Roland and his companions, Eddie and Susannah Dean, find the Path of the Beam …
