There had been some turnover among the Newbury Street Irregulars since we'd come west. Some of them had gone west as well... But computers kept getting faster, cheaper, and more interesting, and the Irregulars didn't lack for members....it was so crowded some nights that there was talk of closing off membership and starting a waiting list. The diehards hated this idea, because they had spent their whole lives being picked last for sports teams...
When the office door opened suddenly, I knew the game was up.
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This has an interesting time-travel aspect that doesn‘t get bogged down with the science of it. So it‘s perfect for someone who gets tripped up by too much technical jargon. It also leaves you feeling like it‘s completely feasible in the near future. I may have hoped for different fates for some characters, but ultimately everything worked out exactly as it should.
pickI read a lot of reviews after this that thought it was halfassed but I had a good time with it. There is a bit of learning curve as there are no traditional chapter breaks and a fair bit of timeline jumping but once I settled into that I was engaged. I also really liked the Dwellers.
so-so92/100 Interesting first contact story, undercut by a disappointing ending. It had potential, but ended up being pretty meh, with too much left unexplained. 3/5 ⭐ #Read2025
pickBeautiful and sad and hopeful and everything Star Wars is to me. I was deeply moved and touched by it and now of course wonder where it'll go. I'd love to stay with the characters longer, get to know them better. Honestly, I don't want to say goodbye. And also - Ember ❤ ❤
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pickWritten in 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War, this starts out as good-guy-vs-evil-robot Heinleinian military sci-fi, but through flashbacks we quickly see that the human MC is a symbol for US imperialist aggression, & the "good guy" is as much a Killing Thing as the robot, which is reacting (albeit with overwhelming violence) to threats made to its existence.
There's a general styled on Curtis "bomb them back into the Stone Age" LeMay, who ⬇️
"There was the desert, glittering white sand that shifted like talcum when touched, cottony white sky, a quarter of it glaring with the white heat of the sun."
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Although it's not a comedy or satire, this is hitting the same anti-militarisation vibe for the Vietnam War that Dr. Strangelove hit for the nuclear arms race and Mutually Assured Destruction. I'm about ⅓ through and really enjoying it so far.
