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The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard
Sherlock Holmes with a space opera twist…it works! An entertaining novella! This is one of the most refreshing Sherlock Holmes-inspired tales. The space opera setting was such fun! The Watnsonesque character here is The Shadow’s Child, a transport ship that lost its crew in a traumatic experience and now earns a living by brewing drugs…
3.5 STARS, 3rd pov, Adult, adventure, Aliette de Bodard, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DETECTIVE, female authors, French American Vietnamese author, futuristic, LGBTQ+ Author, light reads, MYSTERY, NOVELLA/SHORT STORY, published in 2018, read in 2022, RETELLINGS, SCI-FI, sherlockiana, SPACE, SPACE OPERA, spaceships, SPECULATIVE FICTION, The Tea Master and the Detective, Vietnamese inspired setting -
Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki
Perhaps I should be more lenient towards these stories as they were written in the 1970s but alas I did find them rather dated.Most of these stories are set in near-futures. The first portrays an all-female society in which men are seen as less than human. Other stories present readers with different shades of bleak…
1970s, 2 STARS, ALIENATION, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, dystopia, ennui, existentialism, feminism, futuristic, Izumi Suzuki, japan, JAPANESE AUTHOR, Kafkaesque, lesbian side characters, lgbtq+, loneliness, My reviews, navel gazing, near future/alternate reality, published in 2021, queer, read in 2021, reading, SCI-FI, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, SPECULATIVE FICTION, terminal boredom, Terminal Boredom: stories, TRANSLATED FICTION, weird -
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
“Fear of death is a powerful weapon.” Remote Control is Afrofuturism at its best. Nnedi Okorafor seamlessly blends folklore elements and aesthetics with sci-fi ones, delivering a unique and intriguing piece of speculative fiction. Set in Ghana, Remote Control opens in medias res: the appearance of Sankofa, a fourteen-year girl, and her companion, a fox,…
3.5 STARS, 3rd pov, Adult, afrofuturism, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Black & Black heritage authors, Booklr, curses, DEATH, dystopia, FANTASY, female authors, FOLKLORE, futuristic, Ghana, KIDS WITH POWERS, myths, nigerian american author, NNEDI OKORAFOR, NOVELLA/SHORT STORY, POWERS, published in 2021, read in 2021, Remote Control, road trip, SCI-FI, SPECULATIVE FICTION, survival, TOR novella, travel, witchcraft -
Luna & Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald
LUNA A review by The Guardian of Luna perfectly captures the novel’s content by calling it a ‘cut-throat soap opera in space’ in which ‘Mafia-style mining families’ clash with one another. Ian McDonald’s has written a vicious and intense story populated by an array of brutally fierce families that compete against each other to exploit…
3rd pov, 5 STARS, action, adrenaline fuelled reads, Adult, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, British author, family, futuristic, hard sci-fi, IAN MCDONALD, lgbtq+, Luna, Luna #1, Luna #2, male authors, moon, political intrigue, politics, queer, read in 2017, SCI-FI, SPACE OPERA, SPECULATIVE FICTION, survival, violence, WOLF MOON
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