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A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun
In …
A captivating fantasy world built with Latin or central American elements. This felt a little like Game of Thrones in the Americas, but we'll written and without all the shittiness. The various stories pulled through to the climax, but there is much more to learn in the rest of the trilogy. I look forward to it.
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. …
The second adventure with the self-styled murderbot was a quick, fun read. This had echoes of the hilarious depressed disinterested yet obsessed with observations of the humans around it. With the help of a new ship AI ally ART, we find out more about murderbots past.
Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an …
Very funny.
Sci-Fi oddity in a couple of ways. While this was mostly set on a space ship headed to a new planet. The focus was on human relationships, Quaker process, and nature. I enjoyed this focus, but it was a little frustrating that the book didn't have a clear protagonist or much of a plot beyond the basic setup.
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San …
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going …
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but …
On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly …
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very …
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society …
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying, but before …
克拉拉是一个专为陪伴儿童而设计的太阳能人工智能机器人（AF），具有极高的观察、推理与共情能力。她坐在商店展示橱窗里，注视着街头路人以及前来浏览橱窗的孩子们的一举一动。她始终期待着很快就会有人挑中她，不过，当这种永久改变境遇的可能性出现时，克拉拉却被提醒不要过分相信人类的诺言。
在《克拉拉与太阳》这部作品中，石黑一雄通过一位令人难忘的叙述者的视角，观察千变万化的现代社会，探索了一个根本性的问题：究竟什么是爱？
