Reading notes
What I've been reading.
Books I've finished, with a short synopsis and what I actually took away from each one.
Read in 2022
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
A crew goes to inspect a new planet for colonization, a small crew. Our protagonist is a woman, and she discovers an old alien ship ( humanity hasn't encountered aliens yet ) a...
Rule 34
A strange murder that includes a sex toy happens in Edinburgh and we follow 3 people linked to that murder.
One is a petty criminal who's trying to reform and the other person ...
The Water Knife
In Phoenix Arizona, a man get killed and somehow it moves around a lot of people.
This in the USA where water has become a scarce resource. Not so scarce as everybody struggles...
The Delirium Brief
An old enemy of The Laundry, a preacher from the USA, is coming to British soil.
The Laundry is already not going well because of the invasion of elves (alfars) that made it p...
Dead Lies Dreaming
Eve Starcky and Imp are brothers and sisters, children of mages from mages family. They followed both different path, Eve being high in the corporate world and Imp being a vaga...
The Labyrinth Index
Mhari used to work for the Laundry Service. The UK, in a previous book, has now a God ( the black pharao) as a PM and he is directing the Laundry Service, which he kinda dissol...
The Relentless Moon
This time we follow a side character of the Calculating Stars. She is a pilot that is also the wife of a senator. She's on the moon as the colonization keeps on working. There ...
The Fated Sky
We keep on following our Pilot-Computer. The equivalent of the NASA has accepted women being pilots, especially at the end of the last book. Here though, it's about the Mars Mi...
The Calculating Stars
A meteorite crashes close to Washington DC in the early 1950's and the USA's east coast is devastated. The only long term solution for humanity ( because of the coming Climate ...
Redshirts
Ensigns on a spaceship are aware that something is wrong, as no one wants to go down on missions. Why ? Because ensigns going on missions die often. So often that the new ensig...
Heaven's River
Fourth Volume of the "We are Bobs"
Bobs find a superstructure were a species seem to be lightly controlled. In parallel, some Bobs are hacking 3D printers and routers, as Bobs...