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I just finished a back to back read/reread of The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley. I really enjoyed it. It’s a first novel. She is an author I hope will keep on writing!
At first I thought you were referring to this series, which I started but never finished, though iirc wasn’t bad:
This sounds good - I may try it after I finish Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety, her novel of the French Revolution
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I’m re-reading some Neal Asher — Dark Intelligence, now on War Factory, then on to Infinity Engine.
The Polity Universe is like a dark mirror to The Culture. A Banks/Asher collaboration would have been amazing, but sadly, never to be.
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I’m re-reading some Neal Asher — Dark Intelligence, now on War Factory, then on to Infinity Engine.
The Polity Universe is like a dark mirror to The Culture. A Banks/Asher collaboration would have been amazing, but sadly, never to be.
I think the last Asher I read was The Warship a few years back. Not sure now why he fell off my radar - I'll check out what he has been up to.
And I agree with your point about the Polity and the Culture. I'd love to see Asher's Sniper character go up against a Murderer or Psychopath class ROU. 
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Star, I loved A Place Of Greater Safety, and I am remembering the night at the theater with you, Starlady and my spouse when we saw Wolf Hall. AND said Hello to the author
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One of the books I received last week is The Poppy War by Rebecca Huang, author of Babel. I was not impressed. It was her first, I guess. But it seems very derivative. Interesting tho the way she wove in The Art Of War, and other classic Chinese works and so on. Also The Rape of Nanjing. But after I read that book many years ago I didn’t really want to revisit the horror
. I am more in the mood these days for escapist happy fiction 😳 or at least escapist!
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Star, I loved A Place Of Greater Safety, and I am remembering the night at the theater with you, Starlady and my spouse when we saw Wolf Hall. AND said Hello to the author
I remember it well. I was all the more saddened at her passing having met her with you!
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Re: What have you been reading lately?
One of the books I received last week is The Poppy War by Rebecca Huang, author of Babel. I was not impressed. It was her first, I guess. But it seems very derivative. Interesting tho the way she wove in The Art Of War, and other classic Chinese works and so on. Also The Rape of Nanjing. But after I read that book many years ago I didn’t really want to revisit the horror
Agree about Poppy War. I didn’t continue the series. Babel is much better.
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It's not yet July 1, but I've just finished what may be the best book I'll read this year. And it's not fiction.
I need to do some serious thinking.
I'll get back to you shortly.
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It's not yet July 1, but I've just finished what may be the best book I'll read this year. And it's not fiction.
I need to do some serious thinking.
I'll get back to you shortly.
Waiting with bated breath. What is this mystery book?
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Okay. It's the book I found sitting unread for five years in my kindle TBR, that I had no idea was in there in the first place.
I'm going to kick it out to its own thread in the next few days with a piece I've already started drafting, because I want to be able to find it and build on it later. It's very much connected to something I wanted to discuss last year about a certain fiction title but couldn't properly get into words at the time.
It's called The Music of the Future by Robert Barry and it's a very deceptive book. It is not what it seems to be.
It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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