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What are you Reading (September 2023) (i.imgur.com)
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Aside from Project Hail Mary which I assume every /c/sciencefiction subscriber is going to read what have you been reading or plan to read?

Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (August 2023)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I read the first 4 Murderbot Diaries a long time ago and the other day I learned there are at least 4 more. 🤖☠️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I adore the Murderbot Diaries. It's weird how something so violent can be so, I dunno, calming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I fucking love the Murderbot books. They got me back into reading novels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They're great fun.

I was disappointed with Martha Wells' most recent book though. I won't spoil it, but it came down to me never emotionally connecting to the main character, and too much worldbuilding having been done for one book...a lot of build-up that goes nowhere.

I haven't read her non-Murderbot books, so at some point I imagine I'll be curious enough to go back and see if Murderbot was just something that hit a zeitgeist, the right topic at the right time, or if Witch King simply a weaker offering even compared to the pre-Murderbot stuff she's done.