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Mervi2012
Posted 2018-09-25 3:06 AM (#18339 - in reply to #17322)
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I finally started reading the Expanse series. I've watched the first two seasons of the show (only two are available here) and the show is very faithful to "Leviathan Wakes" by James S. A. Corey. Great world-building and a mystery plotline. The first book has only the POVs of detective Miller and James Holden.

I also read Hannu Rajaniemi's collected short fiction "Invisible Planets and other stories". I quite liked his Quantum Thief trilogy. Some of these stories are similar to the trilogy: in other words, has science so advanced that it's pretty much magic. But the collection has stories in other styles as well, near-future, mix of science fiction and Finnish mythology and a couple are even modern-day fantasy or horror. I enjoyed them and it's a good place to start reading Rajaniemi.

I enjoyed the Martian by Andy Weir quite a lot a couple of years back, so of course I had to get his next book "Artemis". It's a thriller and a heist story sent on the (only) domed city in the Moon. It's told in the first person so a lot depends on if you like the main character who is an opinioned, prickly, and foul-mouthed. I ended up enjoying it a lot.

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