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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

Some ebooks I've read since I moved up to Linux Mint 21

  • Red Team Blues, by Cory Doctorow
  • The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions, by Kerry Greenwood
  • The Every, by Dave Eggers
  • Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi
  • All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
  • Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells
  • Rogue Protocol, by Martha Wells
  • Exit Strategy, by Martha Wells
  • Obsolescence, by Martha Wells
  • Compulsory, by Martha Wells
  • Home, Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory, by Martha Wells
  • Network Effect, by Martha Wells
  • Fugitive Telemetry, by Martha Wells
  • The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal
  • The Power, by Naomi Alderman
  • The Lost Cause, by Cory Doctorow
  • The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
  • The Bezzle, by Cory Doctorow
  • Lock In, by John Scalzi
  • Tracers in the Dark, by Andy Greenberg

I have only listed stories I can recommend. They are listed in the order that I read them.

I'm still reading Tracers. I can also recommend his Sand Worm. These are non-fiction.

All the others in the list are fiction.

All the Wells stories listed here are part of The Murderbot Diaries.

The Greenwood book is part of her Phryne Fisher series. I have read all 22 Phryne Fisher novels. Great fun.

The Every is a sequel to The Circle. Don't bother with the movie of The Circle. It has a radically different ending that ruins it.

I can also recommend all the Lady Astronaut stories of Kowal.

Cory is probably my favorite writer these days, if I have one. I certainly read a lot of what he writes.

A few of these are part of series that I haven't finished yet.

I'll probably read System Collapse (Murderbot) next, followed by Head On (sequel to Lock In).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Earth%27s_Past (the Three Body series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phryne_Fisher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scalzi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Greenberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Robinette_Kowal

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Remembrance of Earth's Past - Wikipedia

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kennychaffin@diasp.org
Kenny Chaffin

Just finished Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Wonderful 4+/5 stars

In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range.

In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself.

As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51045613

Enjoy!

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Deacon King Kong

In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon…

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Kenny Chaffin

"I was born with the strange power to peer into the minds of those near me and see their recent moments, memories fresh and soft as paint on a canvas not yet dried. I had rarely used this skill on Hosea, rarely needed to, so open was he to me. I searched for him that morning, ..."

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Wild and Distant Seas

It took me some time to appreciate the smell of dead fish. When I arrived on Nantucket I was nineteen, claiming myself to be the niece of a businessman who was due to visit the island in search of …

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Kenny Chaffin

Dark Matter by Jason Crouch

https://www.bookofthemonth.com/all-hardcovers/dark-matter-139

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"Are you happy with your life?"

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.

Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.

Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend.'"

In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.

Is it this world or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could’ve imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.

Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human—a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch | Book of the Month

The author doesn't just build a world: he builds a whole multiverse, with a very singular love story at its core. Get yours when you join today!

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