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hawkwing_lbBooks 2016: 74-79
74. David D. Levine, Arabella of Mars. Tor, 2016. Copy courtesy of Tor.
Reviewed for Tor.com.
75. Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit. Solaris 2016. Copy courtesy of Solaris.
This is so great. SO GREAT. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic space opera territory, with undead generals and friendly robots and horrible people and relatively decent people doing horrible things and it is just so readable and compelling that despite the INCREDIBLY HIGH BODYCOUNT I want MORE NOW PLEASE.
76. Laydin Michaels, Bitter Root. Bold Strokes Books, 2016. Ebook.
Romance featuring queer women set in Louisiana. Dark pasts, lots of talk about food. It is okay, I guess.
77. Adrian Tchaikovsky, Spiderlight. Tor.com Publishing, 2016. Copy courtesy of Tor.com.
Read for review for Tor.com. I enjoyed this IMMENSELY, though at first I didn't expect to.
Nonfiction
78. James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 2011.
This is an incredible book, part history and part anthropology. I read it in snatches, two and three pages together as time allowed. Scott argues that marginal peoples living at the edges of settled state civilisations have, in the main, made choices about the composition of their societies, their cultural toolsets, their subsistence regimes, and so on, deliberately in order to avoid incorporation into settled states.
It is a really interesting work, and a really interesting argument, and a fascinating overview of Southeast Asia's non-state peoples. I recommend it extremely.
79. Robin Waterfield, Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014.
The US paperback edition is coming out this autumn and I hope to get to review this somewhere. But basically it is what it says on the tin.
74. David D. Levine, Arabella of Mars. Tor, 2016. Copy courtesy of Tor.
Reviewed for Tor.com.
75. Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit. Solaris 2016. Copy courtesy of Solaris.
This is so great. SO GREAT. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic space opera territory, with undead generals and friendly robots and horrible people and relatively decent people doing horrible things and it is just so readable and compelling that despite the INCREDIBLY HIGH BODYCOUNT I want MORE NOW PLEASE.
76. Laydin Michaels, Bitter Root. Bold Strokes Books, 2016. Ebook.
Romance featuring queer women set in Louisiana. Dark pasts, lots of talk about food. It is okay, I guess.
77. Adrian Tchaikovsky, Spiderlight. Tor.com Publishing, 2016. Copy courtesy of Tor.com.
Read for review for Tor.com. I enjoyed this IMMENSELY, though at first I didn't expect to.
Nonfiction
78. James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 2011.
This is an incredible book, part history and part anthropology. I read it in snatches, two and three pages together as time allowed. Scott argues that marginal peoples living at the edges of settled state civilisations have, in the main, made choices about the composition of their societies, their cultural toolsets, their subsistence regimes, and so on, deliberately in order to avoid incorporation into settled states.
It is a really interesting work, and a really interesting argument, and a fascinating overview of Southeast Asia's non-state peoples. I recommend it extremely.
79. Robin Waterfield, Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014.
The US paperback edition is coming out this autumn and I hope to get to review this somewhere. But basically it is what it says on the tin.
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Date: 2016-07-12 10:56 pm (UTC)Yes! I want this novel (and its sequels and associated short stories) to win all the things! They are just that good!
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Date: 2016-07-13 06:35 am (UTC)