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Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

This Is How You Lose the Time War is unlike anything I’ve ever read before. It’s a novella, written in an epistolary style, which a) was a term I wasn’t familiar with beforehand (epistolary means “of a literary work, in the form of letters”) and b) was a story style I’d never read before. It’s also a sci-fi story, and ...

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Review: Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

The third entry in The Murderbot Diaries series, Rogue Protocol, is another short and straightforward story centred on Murderbot, the media-obsessed cyborg. We continue the story shortly after the events of Artificial Condition, with Murderbot still lying low, masquerading as an augmented human...

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Review: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

The second entry in The Murderbot Diaries series, Artificial Condition, is another short and simple story centred on the socially awkward, soap-opera-loving cyborg, Murderbot. The story picks up where All Systems Red left off, with Murderbot seeking transport off-world ...

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