Still not reading enough, just not in the mood most of the time. And when I did read, the only thing I wanted to read was science fiction.
Hammered, Scardown, Worldwired — Elizabeth Bear
This is Elizabeth Bear’s debut trilogy of novels, which starts out as streetlevel cyberpunk but quickly evolves from that. Each novel in the series ups the stakes and opens up the stage in which the story takes place through the sort of conceptual breakthrough science fiction does best. Apart from this, Bear is also very good at creating believable, realistic characters including the main protagonist Jenny Casey, a disabled middle age war veteran with a cyborg left arm and eye.
Dragondrums — Anne McCaffrey
Third in the Harpers Hall trilogy. An entertaining read but nothing more than that.
Remnant Population — Elizabeth Moon
Moon usually writes well done mil-sf or fantasy, but this is more ambitious. A failing human colony is recalled, but Ofelia, who has grown old there, does not want to leave. When the ships have left she’s the only remaining human on the planet, but then it turns out there is indigenous sentient life…
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