![]() ![]() Time after time, the reviews say that the book is really difficult to read. ![]() You look at a few reviews to make extra-sure that it’s a Good Book. Before you buy something, you want to make sure it’s worth your hard-earned money. Remembering hours and hours of bloody desperate battles between space marines and chaos heretics, you are pretty convinced this is the book for you.īut you aren’t rich. Powell are, but you played Warhammer 40k in high school. Powell) You don’t know who the hell Cordwainer Smith or Gareth L. You look at amazon and there’s a quote that says the book is “As if Cordwainer Smith had written a Warhammer novel.” (Gareth L. ![]() You liked Starship Troopers and Old Man’s War and The Forever War. Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee piques your interest. You enjoy science fiction - not exclusively, there’s too much other good shit out there for you to limit yourself solely to one genre - so you look to the Hugo nominees, normally a solid indicator of quality. A book of profanities written in every futile shade of red the human body had ever devised, its pages upended over the battlefield from horizon to horizon.” Gape-jawed, twisted skulls with eye sockets staring out of their sides and strands of tendon knotted through crumbling teeth. Black-and-gold Kel uniforms braided into cracked rib cages. Feet scraped inside-out next to unblemished boots. “Cheris was unable to organize her first heart-stop impressions of what had been the rest of the battalion. ![]()
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