optimist_prime rated A Civil Campaign: 4 stars
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles Vorkosigan launches a campaign to win the heart of Ekatarina, whose former husband died as a result of Miles' …
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optimist_prime rated The Night Masquerade: 4 stars
The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor (Binti, #3)
Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although …
optimist_prime rated Lilith's brood: 4 stars
Lilith's brood by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis, #Omnibus)
optimist_prime rated Doomsday Book: 4 stars
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning …
optimist_prime rated To Say Nothing of the Dog (S.F. Masterworks): 4 stars
To Say Nothing of the Dog (S.F. Masterworks) by Connie Willis
Connie Willis' entertaining comedy inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) …
optimist_prime rated Long Earth: 5 stars
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter: Long Earth (2012, HarperCollins Canada, Limited)
Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Terry Pratchett, other than lending his name to this book, wasn't a part of it. No humor and dark reading. …
optimist_prime rated A People's History of the United States: 4 stars
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is …
optimist_prime rated What the hell did I just read: 4 stars
David Wong: What the hell did I just read (2017)
What the hell did I just read by David Wong
Investigating the activities of a shapeshifting entity that is snatching local kids, the friends from This Book Is Full of …
optimist_prime rated Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2): 5 stars
Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Paladin of Souls is a 2003 fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold. It won the Hugo, Locus, and …
optimist_prime rated The Golem and the Djinni: 5 stars
The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker
The Golem and the Jinni (published as The Golem and the Djinni in the United Kingdom) is a debut novel …
optimist_prime rated 1824: the Arkansas war: 3 stars
optimist_prime rated The Many Selves Of Katherine North: 4 stars
optimist_prime rated Kindred: 4 stars
Octavia E. Butler: Kindred (Paperback, 2018, Headline Publishing Group)
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from …