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booklover3258
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Pickpick

Ah back to finishing my graphic novel series. In this volume, we learn more about Jayne's past and why he left his hometown and family. The crew of Serenity is in a bind to help monks that have been robbed and chaos ensues. Wonderful story and I even like the new characters. Good graphics as well.

Texreader There‘s a Firefly graphic novel series? I think I‘ve got a gift idea for the husband! He loves Firefly! 4d
booklover3258 @Texreader This one series of many Firefly graphic novels... plus there are awesome Firefly books as well with the characters on the covers. 4d
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Kristy_K
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Mehso-so

Displaying Ashton‘s signature humor, The Fourth Consort takes place in outer space in a sci-fi light comedy. A short and quick read. Enjoyable but I did wish for a little more substance.

⭐️⭐️💫

#arc

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TorieStorieS
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Mehso-so

Happy Publication Day! Staples‘ second novel is actually something of a sequel to THIS TOWN SLEEPS— which I wish I had known before diving into this one! I also wish that I had a physical copy instead… the audio performance is great, but with multiple narrators, dates to keep straight & some abrupt, fever dream feeling transitions, I would‘ve preferred being able to more easily flip pages back as needed for reference in this casino based Inferno.

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TorieStorieS
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Pickpick

Ashton‘s latest makes for a quick & fun listen! Dalton Greaves left a lonely life in WV to work for the Unity a space initiative run by a snail-like species looking for other intelligent beings. The book opens when they land on a planet with giant insect-like creatures at the same time as their space rivals, stick-bug like aliens. With humor & heart, this is a genuinely fun & well-performed listen! Can‘t wait for more from Ashton!

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Bookwomble
Fantastic Voyage | Isaac Asimov
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Pickpick

A fun novelisation of the 1966 movie by Asimov, who does what he can within the scifi premise to include realistic science as problems to be solved by the crew of scientists and technicians, miniaturised in a nuclear-powered submarine and injected into the bloodstream of a defecting physicist with an inoperable brain tumour to save his life and the knowledge he has in order to maintain a cold war stalemate.
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Bookwomble Some nods to the Manhattan Project, deconstruction of super-spy tropes, critique of sexism in science (which Asimov then forgets), wrapped up in a neat race-against-time adventure. 2mo
AmyG Such a fun movie. 2mo
The_Book_Ninja The old ‘Movster does like his women to be housewifey. He must have had a short circuit when he came up with Susan Calvin 1mo
Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Hmmm, I'm not sure "housewifey" is an adjective I'd apply to Raquel Welch ? Then again, Asimov was given her character to write about. But, yeah, he's of his time, and while Susan Calvin is a stand out female scientist in the genre stories of Asimov's day, she's still written by a man with the prejudices of that era. 1mo
Bookwomble @AmyG It is, and too long since I last saw it. 1mo
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catsuit_mango
Starman Jones | Robert A. Heinlein
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My sunday afternoon : reading the tagged book and building a book related lego :)

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Bookwomble
Fantastic Voyage | Isaac Asimov
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I love a "micronauts" story, and I guess this is one of the most famous (perhaps alongside Matheson's The Incredible Shrinking Man", oh, and Honey I Shrunk the Kids, oh, and Inner Space, ok there's loads!). The trope is ancient, though, being found in folklore tales such as Tom Thumb.
The front cover of my edition (1966 first UK edition, for what that's worth) is slightly boring, but I like the back cover Technicolour movie still.

Bookwomble What I did think of, though, was this song, although it isn't related to the book or film other than having the same title:
🎵 Fantastic Voyage
🎙️ David Bowie 👨🏼‍🎤
💿 Lodger
📽️https://youtu.be/FSCB_0SXFR4?si=v7gBJic_QlVujLdr

#BooksAndMusic #BooksAndBowie
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AmyG I loved this movie as a kid! 2mo
Bookwomble @AmyG It's been a while since I last saw it, but it made an impression on me, too. I've been fascinated by the idea of the micro world since seeing this film 😊 2mo
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Hooked_on_books
Rolltown: Bat Hardin #3 | Mack Reynolds
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I did pretty well with my first month of #Roll100 in January—2 books completed and I‘m 2/3 through the third book. Hopefully that bodes well for February! Here are my books corresponding to the numbers.

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 2mo
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GeorgiaBookLover
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Check out this book...

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The_Book_Ninja
Second Foundation | Isaac Asimov
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Pickpick

For me, Asimovs Robot stories sit comfortably in a unique stasis between its 1950s style, dialect & atomic age paranoia, & the speculative, future worlds in which they‘re set. It‘s kind of simultaneously antiquated & futuristic at the same time. The Foundation Trilogy doesn‘t always work the same way. It‘s more severely & noticeably trapped in its old attitudes & kind of ages badly in comparison. But the yarns are ripping & I enjoyed the journey