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I love this book SO much!! It‘s the 2nd book in Brin‘s Uplift series and I enjoyed it even more than the 1st, and I loved that one too! This story is set centuries later with an entirely different cast of characters. A spaceship with a crew of humans, dolphins and a chimp, stumbles upon a history altering find out in space. Now it finds itself the focus of countless dangerous galactic enemies. An epic science fiction adventure follows that⬇️
pickCatching up with reviews. I'd finished this a couple of weeks ago with #ClassicLSFBC and enjoyed it very much. It's a well-paced and thought-provoking read with themes typical of sci-fi from the Cold War era.
@RamsFan1963 @Ruthiella
A bit too romancy for my tastes. Otherwise a good start to a series. But I won't be continuing it.
“He could not force himself to understand how banks functionaled and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaboratr, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistskrn and terrible beauty; in the rites of moneychangers, where greed, laziness and envy were assumed to move all men‘s acts, even the terrible became banal.”
I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude.
From "Johnny Mnemonic"
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
Well, this is a serious WTF moment. Keanu Reeves and China Miéville have written a book together (?!) and I (?!?!) have been invited on NetGalley to read an early copy?!? What is happening? Am I in the Matrix?
This will be an ultra-rare double reread for me. According to Litsy, I read and panned Snow Crash 6 years ago, but I'm reading it again for #ClassicLSFBC. I don't remember much about it except it was chaotic. I originally read Burning Chrome around '88-'89, so it's been long enough for it to feel new again.
Finally found a copy!! Book 2 in the Liliths Brood series. It‘s taking a lot of willpower to not stop reading my current book to start this 😭👽🐙 I can‘t wait!
Getting some much needed heavy rain and I don‘t have to work until this afternoon. So I am taking an extra hour to read in bed. What a cozy treat!
This was one of my #Roll100 picks for March. 2d