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Book Review: Artemis by Andy Weir

July 29, 2023 by Joe Gray in Book Review, Fiction, Sci-Fi

Jazz soon becomes the city’s most wanted criminal after she takes a sketchy job for a rich businessman named Trond. This job goes sour quickly and the aftermath uncovers a city-wide conspiracy that might lead the city into ruin. It is up to Jazz and an assortment of her motley friends to sabotage the conspiracy to save the city from the gangsters that want to turn it into an industrial dictatorship.

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July 29, 2023 /Joe Gray
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Book Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

February 25, 2023 by Joe Gray in Book Review, Fiction, Sci-Fi

It is hard to express the love I have for this book without showing a gif of me just waving my arms around.

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February 25, 2023 /Joe Gray
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Book Review: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

December 17, 2021 by Joe Gray in Book Review

I had almost zero expectations going into reading this book other than that Michael Crighton is a great writer and I enjoyed Congo a lot and I enjoyed the Jurassic Park movies. I could tell that it was about some kind of virus as the term "strain" usually means something bad and biological and there are lots of strains of viruses and viruses are on the mind of late. Based on the previous titles I was expecting some kind of action-adventure story but that is not what I found with this book. Instead, I was slowly taken on a cerebral journey through a subtle world of science fiction in a way that I haven't experienced before.

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December 17, 2021 /Joe Gray
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