I'm going to try to post brief reviews of everything I read in 2019. If I finished the book, that means I liked it.
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THE IRON DRAGON trilogy by
@robkroese. The best "impossible odds" story I've read in years. Equal parts culture, military history, and engineering. I enjoyed the detailed look at catapult technology in Book 2, and the engineering focus and ever-increasing stakes of Book 3.1 reply 3 retweets 13 likesShow this thread -
NETHEREAL by
@BrianNiemeier. A spaceship crew stranded in Hell has to travel through different planes of existence to get home. Sinister, quasi-Gnostic mythos. The only thing I can compare it to is CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK.2 replies 3 retweets 13 likesShow this thread -
A MOON FULL OF STARS and BARBARIAN EMPEROR by
@NotJonMollison. Compact, mythic stories that hint at much larger worlds. A+ for style, almost nobody writes this well anymore. He's only written a handful of short books, I hope to see an epic someday.1 reply 1 retweet 12 likesShow this thread -
THE HIDDEN TRUTH series by
@AetherCzar. A young physicist, a computer hacker, and a guerrilla warfare expert team up to fight the Deep State. Portrays the worlds of academia, cutting-edge science, and spycraft with equal ease. A great, unique series.1 reply 4 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
SANITY by
@neovictorian23. Imagine if L. Ron Hubbard went legit and became a spymaster in the vein of Heinlein's Kettle Belly Baldwin, combining esoteric philosophy with fighting and survival techniques. New Wave SF with arch-reactionary politics.2 replies 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
DOPAMINE by Mikhail Voloshin. Hacking, biotech, and gunfights. It's like John Wick if the writers had 1000% more brains and originality. Deserves way more attention, it's tragic that the author has only written 1 book.
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The Aristillus series by
@MorlockP. Best hard SF series of the decade. DIY space travel, DIY moon colonization, and DIY government. The best portrayal of light industry since Atlas Shrugged. The Catholic Space Doggos meme sums up everything great about dissident SF.2 replies 6 retweets 15 likesShow this thread
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