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The First Murder On Mars
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Review to follow ... should have taken a star off for the many typos and sloppy editing in the first half. But this really wrongfooted me just when I thought I knew where it was headed. A 'modern' SF novel that riffs off Paul McAuley, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Frank Herbert in a phlegmatic manner quite typical of South African SF.
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Reading Progress
October 12, 2024
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Started Reading
October 12, 2024
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October 12, 2024
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7.17%
"In the north, above Olympus Mons, is the word Outliers. And in the south, where they now live, is the warning Here be corporates."
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35
October 12, 2024
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10.25%
"‘I've been picking up the news from Earth,’ he says. ‘You know there's a conspiracy theory that life on Mars is a hoax?’"
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50
October 12, 2024
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14.34%
"Dylan has never been to Rand Town before. All she knows is that it was founded by a group of libertarians shortly after the Collapse. There’s a joke that every Rand Town citizen owns their own life-support system, because using a big one for the whole base would be communism."
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70
October 12, 2024
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21.11%
"‘Is that a radio frequency? Can't they use wi-fi?’ says Dylan.
‘Their computer’s probably burned out. But they've got radio, the hottest technology of the nineteenth century.’"
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103
‘Their computer’s probably burned out. But they've got radio, the hottest technology of the nineteenth century.’"
October 23, 2024
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2024
October 23, 2024
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sf-fantasy
October 23, 2024
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Finished Reading