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Reap the Wild Wind

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{4.5/5} “Runners dared go beyond where Om’ray were tolerated. Never to trespass on the Oud — no one was that stupid — but where no others would go… Runners weren’t of one family, or one Talent,  though those with the ability to sense imminent change were persistently if quietly courted. They were risk takers, not […]

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (season 1)

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of TV shows

{4.5/5} “You missed this one. I knew it was there, but I didn’t tell you ’cause I hoped one day I’d be brave enough.” A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder season 1, aired in 2024 Pip has to do an in-depth project for school and she decides to revisit the murder of Andie, an older […]

Dollhouse: Epitaphs

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{4.5/5} “I’m used to being scared. I’ve been scared ever since my uncle got printed. But I killed people today. And now I feel like a bad guy. Just like the people who killed Uncle Wendall.” Dollhouse: Epitaphs by Andrew Chambliss, Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen, published in 2012 When the apocalypse happens most people […]

Mars Express

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4.5/5} “Your head never used to hover like that.” Mars Express, released in 2023 When Aline Ruby gets to Mars with the cybercriminal Roberta Williams, they find there’s no warrant for her arrest. Now she’s looking for two students who have gone missing after their robot was jailbroken. When she gets to the location of […]

To Trade the Stars

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{4.5/5} “The Hoveny… had spread itself that far and possibly farther before its interstellar empire collapsed — around the same time Humans were four-footed shrews. Study of the Hoveny Complex was one of the most highly funded fields of research among Trade Pact cultures, given that newer species were determined not to repeat whatever mistakes […]

Ties of Power

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{4.5/5} “There was, I granted grudgingly, reason for the Clan to be so desperate, to act with such disregard for individuals. It was at the root of every being’s existence: to have a living future. That, as Morgan would say, did not make it right. There had to be other choices, better methods. Some costs […]

A Thousand Words for Stranger

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{4.5/5} “You have touched the M’hir. Part of our unconscious selves is always there, mingling on some level with all other living Clan, as the air on your ship moves in and out of all our bodies. The M’hir is inseparable from the Clan; it gives us abilities and strengths your species needs machines to […]

Behold the Ape

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{4.5/5} “Somehow Isaac got a script into the hands of H.G. Wells himself, who wrote back, ‘…Because you’re aiming to distress Nigel and Desmond Rowen, I’ll see you the rights for a pittance — my way of thumbing my nose at their grandfather, who routinely tormented my old teacher, Thomas Henry Huxley. However, you must […]

Acts of Violet

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{4.5/5} “I’ve been immersed in the purgatory of my sister’s disappearance for the last decade. I think about her every… day. But since I prefer to avoid big emotional displays, I get criticized for not caring enough about her absence (mostly by people I don’t know, sometimes by the one I gave birth to). It’s […]

Chaos Terminal

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{4.5/5} “She had been served a plate of green leafy vegetables and was glad to finally have a salad, only to realize the greens were a shield so that the real, caterpillar-like creatures, would feel safe and not try to run off the plate immediately. When Mallory had tried to eat the greens, the waitstaff […]