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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: Foundation by Asimov

July 07, 2023 by Joe Gray in Book Review

I recommend this book to those that want a more subtle look at how people obtain power on large scales and the tools that people use to manipulate others.

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July 07, 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: Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert

October 26, 2022 by Joe Gray in Book Review

This book had all the intrigue and complexity of the previous books but with some subtle differences in the pacing and focus. After the events of Heretics of Dune, Arrakis is gone and the Bene Gesserit have hidden away the last known sandworm on their home planet known as Chapterhouse.

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October 26, 2022 /Joe Gray
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Book Review: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert

March 15, 2022 by Joe Gray in Book Review

Heretics of Dune is the fifth entry into the epic Dune saga and boy this was a difficult one to get into. Heretics takes place 1500 years or so after the events of God Emporer of Dune and all the main characters are long dead. But they are not forgotten. The prophecies and prognostications of Leto II are still at the heart of everything that moves human activity. With the God Emporer's death, humanity lacked direction and took to exploring new parts of the universe. This is called The Scattering and from the splintered pieces come new and powerful factions that are returning to the old realms to take power away from those that have ruled since The Tyrant's long plunge into the watery grave he accepted.

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March 15, 2022 /Joe Gray
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Book Review: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

October 23, 2021 by Joe Gray in Book Review

This book sat on my shelf for quite a while and I was planning on letting it sit. My aunt gave it to me and I figured it was a book that was more suited to a 60-year-old woman. I thought it was some kind of spiritual journey biography or some kind of allegory for the ills of modern capitalism. I don't know why I thought this and I was very wrong. It is one of the most engaging fantasies I have ever read. It was a surprise to find out that it takes place in a fictional future where the earth has turned on its inhabitants by way of violent tectonic activities. Volcanoes, lava flows, earthquakes, and tsunamis are the real enemies to humanity and can take out an entire city with hundred's of thousands of inhabitants in a moment and every once in a while the earth becomes completely covered in ash forcing humans to hide and survive in the ancient ways outlined by rules called stonelore.

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October 23, 2021 /Joe Gray
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