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Matt Addis
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Adam Roberts
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The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship Sß Oubliette were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon... by the end of the day, the crews of both starships were dead, victims of a single killer: Captain Alpha Raine.
Raine claims he's acting under the command of a voice emanating from the black hole: Mr Modo. No one believes him.Everyone knows that things go into black holes; nothing comes out.
But something inexplicable has been happening to Raine, and whatever it is seems to be spreading. An historian studying serial killers from the 21st century interviews him... and then nearly kills someone herself. It becomes increasingly undeniable that there's something inside that black hole... and it's found a way out...©2024 Adam Roberts (P)2024 Orion Publishing Group Limited
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Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The ever present battle between past and future.
- By Kindle Customer on 03-14-25
By: Ben H. Winters
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When the Moon Hits Your Eye
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For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wil Wheaton is torture
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By: John Scalzi
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.
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I love Wil Wheaton but why not R. C. Bray?
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Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- By C. White on 09-19-23
By: John Scalzi
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- Richard
- 11-26-24
In the spirit of the best science fiction
I love when science fiction is a vehicle for pondering what people would do in unusual/futuristic circumstances. I found this an entertaining and different perspective on various tech and society trends that might be in our future. I loved the book!
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- DrEHarris
- 02-10-25
Simple prose, mind bending plot
Easy to read
Simple characters
Black hole stuff
Not super hard sci fi, more cosmic horror, cosmic void
Some parallels to remembrance of earths past but different
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- Michael
- 01-03-25
Loved all the science stuff about black holes
Not sure about the way the story moved to a religious explanation. The science stuff was great.
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- Andrei Pankov
- 12-11-24
Not sure what to make of it. Love the premise.
I love the premise. I feel like the book did not go anywhere interesting as far as characters are concerned. Conceptually, would have been better as a mystery.
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- MP Janssens
- 12-04-24
Terrible abominable narration
Some aspects of the story was ok, but Almost everything was unlikeable in the extreme. Not recommended.
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