I listened to this recently on Audible, and it was not what I expected. Though this is marketed as a sci-fi, the setting is really more of a medieval/fantasy type world. The prose is also very dramatic, dark and flowery, which seems more fit to a fantasy novel. The main character being a torturer who …
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North
I just finished reading this, and though it was very clever, and a fresh idea and extremely well written with beautiful prose, identifiable characters and vivid emotions and exciting action, it was also incredibly irritating. It is another iteration of the timeless story of the villain trying to accomplish something, and the hero trying to …
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Week 15 and VALIS(and The Divine Invasion)
This week I wrote about someone resurrected in a future society where death has been outlawed. I don't like it and didn't really know where I was going with it, so I've broken my streak of good stories. I finished something though! I also read VALIS by Phillip K. Dick. It's about a man who …
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Week 14 and Reflex
This week's story was about someone trying to open a gate to a parallel universe. I had a prompt from a competition on a forum I frequent, I haven't seen how I rate yet, so you'll hear next week 🙂 I finished reading Reflex and it was really good, the writing seemed to improve a …
Week 13 and Jumper (and Ubik)
Another week, another story. This time I wrote about someone accidentally transporting himself into a motivational poster. I took inspiration from a novel I just finished: Jumper, by Steven Gould. I got it cause I saw that the new sequel, Impulse, was on the Nebula reading list. It's about a guy who learns he can …
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