Laage rated Trail of Lightning: 4 stars
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse, Tanis Parenteau
"While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo …
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"While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo …
With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress …
Excellent idea, but lacking in execution.
The idea of using stories as examples of algorithms is good, but I feel that the author tends to get too focused on the details of the algorithms discussed and therefore risks losing the intended audience.
The accompanying PDF is mostly useless if you're not listening to the audiobook near a computer or has a hard copy accessible at all times where you can refer to it directly. I'm listening to the audiobook while driving which makes this impossible. Most of the diagrams are just listed with number and no accompanying text. A simple paragraph explaining each example or diagram would make it useful as a reminder/lookup at a later time as well.
Using the concept of music as a language is a good idea and a natural for an audiobook - and completely squandered as not a single note is played. I understand …
Indiana Jones meets Jack Reacher meets Superman. Fast paced but I had trouble feeling engaged with the characters since they - and especially Jack West Jr. - were so superhuman that there was never any real feeling of danger.
I would have loved it when I saw the original Indiana Jones movies, but it just feels silly now.
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the east coast …
"She answered the Emperor's call.
She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.
In victory, her world …
Pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn …
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
In an alternate England in 1958, Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain seek the Black Dossier, which contains the history of …
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned …