stinkingpig rated Hexarchate Stories: 2 stars
Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee (The Machineries of Empire, #3.5)
The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit.
An ex-Kel art thief has to save the …
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stinkingpig rated Trafalgar: 4 stars
Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer
Nobody knows if Trafalgar Medrano actually travels to the stars, but whenever he is in town he stretches his stories …
stinkingpig rated Sea of Tranquility: 5 stars
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
stinkingpig rated Nettle & Bone: 4 stars
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally …
stinkingpig rated Dragon's egg: 3 stars
Dragon's egg by Robert L. Forward
In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms--the cheela--living on Dragon's Egg, …
stinkingpig rated Agency: 3 stars
stinkingpig rated Last Exit: 4 stars
stinkingpig rated Elder Race: 3 stars
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet …
stinkingpig rated Shards of Earth: 4 stars
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #1)
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the …
stinkingpig rated Piranesi: 5 stars
Piranesi
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set …
stinkingpig rated 克拉拉与太阳: 5 stars
克拉拉与太阳 by Kazuo Ishiguro, 宋佥
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？
stinkingpig rated Hammers on Bone (Persons Non Grata, #1): 4 stars
Hammers on Bone (Persons Non Grata, #1) by Cassandra Khaw
ohn Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He’s been hired by a ten-year-old …
stinkingpig rated Catalyst Gate: 3 stars
stinkingpig rated Nudge: 3 stars
Nudge by Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness is a book written by University of Chicago economist and Nobel Laureate …
stinkingpig rated Project Hail Mary: 4 stars
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …