An interesting set up to tell a story that connects and carries through real events in the history of rocketry development. I've greatly enjoyed looking up more details on characters, places, and incidents. Recommended so far.
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mira🦇 rated Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea: 4 stars
Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne (Folianten und Tee, #1)
Das Büchercafé lädt zum Träumen ein, doch Magie und Abenteuer ruhen nie!
Als ein Attentäter Reynas Leben in Gefahr …
mira🦇 rated The Curse in Their Veins: 4 stars
mira🦇 rated Middlegame: 4 stars
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (Alchemical Journeys, #1)
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power …
mira🦇 reviewed History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel
historical sff about space rocketry
An interesting set up to tell a story that connects and carries through real events in the history of rocketry development. I've greatly enjoyed looking up more details on characters, places, and incidents. Recommended so far.
mira🦇 rated History of What Comes Next: 5 stars
mira🦇 rated Wyrd Sisters: 5 stars
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (6))
Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Maigrat have fairy godmother-dom thrust upon them.
mira🦇 rated Glass and Gardens: 4 stars
Glass and Gardens by Wendy Nikel, Andrew Dana Hudson, Commando Jugendstil Tales from the EV Studio, and 15 others
​This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, …
mira🦇 rated Stone Butch Blues: 5 stars
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as a butch lesbian in 1970s …
mira🦇 rated The Unspoken Name: 5 stars
The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood (The Serpent Gates, #1)
What if you knew how and when you will die?
Csorwe does. She will climb the mountain, enter the …
mira🦇 rated Hammers on Bone: 3 stars
Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw (Persons Non Grata, #1)
"John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He's been hired by a ten-year-old …
mira🦇 rated House Of Earth and Blood: 4 stars
mira🦇 reviewed Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
Navigational Entanglements
5 stars
Content warning wordbuilding and story spoilers
Four troubled souls, each with their failings and differences, pushing up against their space communities' machiavellian and violent politics, and growing closer together along the way. The text is short and pretty quick to action; even if built from some elements already known from the genre, very well constructed. I enjoyed the way the dynamics happening between the characters were described, in a big part through show through lenses of an overthinking, extremely avoidant woman that feels quite relatable; and how the characters' emotions showed not only in words and internal dialogues, but were also proxied to more senses through their Shadows. Their small but substantial personal progress feel real and inspiring. So do the politics, with different groups typical in- and out- fighting around prestige and economical gain...
mira🦇 rated Navigational Entanglements: 5 stars
mira🦇 rated The Tower At the Center of Infinity: 5 stars
The Tower At the Center of Infinity by Jess Sebastian
April has had an idea that could be the end of the Infinite City. As she explores the endless metropolis, …