Category: Reviews

Review: Mass Effect Andromeda: Annihilation by Catherynne M. Valente

  • On: 11th May 2024
  • Category: Reviews

There are three tie-in novels for Mass Effect Andromeda, so naturally, I started with the third and final entry into that trilogy of stories. If you’ve read my Thoughts on the Lore of Mass Effect blog post, you may recall that I mentioned how Mass Effect Andromeda had a lot of unresolved plot lines...

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Review: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

  • On: 2nd Nov 2023
  • Category: Reviews

Story number four in The Murderbot Diaries, Exit Strategy sticks to the series formula of being short and focused, delivering another quick and entertaining entry in the Murderbot’s adventures. The narrative continues on shortly after where Rouge Protocol left off, where Murderbot had acquired evidence...

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

  • On: 23rd Oct 2023
  • Category: Reviews

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

  • On: 22nd Aug 2023
  • Category: Reviews

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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