Category: Reading List
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Virtual Light by William Gibson
This is the first book of The Bridge, a newer trilogy by Gibson which reintroduces many of his earlier ideas within the context of the new technologies that had come out since the Sprawl Trilogy. In this first book, he ties together the ideas of existential and interstitial sociology and introduces a concept he calls…
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Ready Player Two by Earnest Klein
This book was really bad. It manages to somehow be worse than the first one. Honestly I wish I had never read either of them. It’s basically just exactly the same story as the first book but somehow also a rip-off of Neuromancer without any of the good parts. 0/10. Do not recommend.
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
This was a great read. I read it for a class on Race, Gender, and Science Fiction as part of my degrees in Queer Ethnic Studies and Racial Resistance. Afro-futurism is a super interesting literary space with very different perspectives from mainstream science fiction. This story was also adapted into a graphic novel. I read…
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Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 0)
How to describe how this book fits into the story of Thrawn? So this was the first Thrawn book which was published. I became aware of it after I finished the first Thrawn trilogy. So I’m ironically reading it last, but probably it should come first. There is a special sadness knowing this is the…
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Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising (Thrawn 9)
First of all, having now finished the ninth book in this series, I can’t tell whether Zahn loves communism or hates it. On the surface, I am offended by Zahn’s unfiltered contempt for syndicalism and admiration for imperialism. But is that really the point? I find myself agreeing with his every critique of ancom as…
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Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 8)
I had assumed this book would be about Thrawn’s exodus. In fact,as you may expect, there is a twist. Just as I was about halfway through this book and dreading the end of the Thrawn series, I head the news that a new Thrawn book has just been released and that it’s the beginning of…
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Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 7)
This book reminded me a lot of the Tarkin book. Thrawn and Vader go on an adventure. It’s very interesting to see the way Palpatine is trying to get them working closer together, and the way Thrawn accomplishes the same discovery Tarkin made about Vader’s origins. This story is an A/B story. We jump back…
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Thrawn by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 6)
This is the first book of the third and final Thrawn series. This series is a prequel to the first series. This book, Thrawn, is an origin story. It starts when he first joins The Empire and ends with him as a Grand Admiral in The Imperial Fleet. It also follows the story of his…
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Vision of the Future by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 5)
This book is REALLY great. Having just finished the first Thrawn trilogy and now the Hand Duology, this book is the best, the pinnacle of the story so far. I really liked the focus on many interesting characters and the way the stories all tied together. [Spoilers] It seems safe to say at this…
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Our History is the Future by Nick Estes
I wrote at length about each chapter of this excellent book. It is both a primer on the history of the struggle of native people and also a vision of the future. Estes shows many examples of what white settler colonialism is, how it has been successfully countered, and what a possible future might look…