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Bay Area programmer guy. Lifelong comic book reader, also a big fan of comic strips and webcomics. In prose I mostly read science fiction with a smattering of fantasy, horror, mystery and the occasional nonfiction book. My cats help.
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Michael Rawdon rated Tiassa: 4 stars
Tiassa by Steven Brust (Vlad Taltos, #13)
Long ago, one of the gods fashioned an artifact called the silver tiassa. To Devera the Wanderer, it's a pretty …
Michael Rawdon rated Under Fortunate Stars: 5 stars
Michael Rawdon rated Iorich: 3 stars
Iorich by Steven Brust (Vlad Taltos, #12)
House Jhereg, Dragaera's organized crime syndicate, is still hunting Vlad Taltos. There's a big price on his head on Draegara …
Michael Rawdon rated The Tainted Cup: 5 stars
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. …
Michael Rawdon rated Jhegaala: 3 stars
Jhegaala by Steven Brust (Vlad Taltos, #11)
Michael Rawdon rated Babel-17: 2 stars
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns …
Michael Rawdon rated Word by word: 4 stars
Word by word by Kory Stamper
"Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word …
Michael Rawdon rated Dzur: 3 stars
Dzur by Steven Brust (Vlad Taltos, #10)
Michael Rawdon rated The Siege of Burning Grass: 3 stars
The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
The Empires of Varkal and Med’ariz have always been at war.
Alefret, the founder of Varkal’s pacifist resistance, was bombed …
Michael Rawdon rated The Butcher of the Forest: 5 stars
Michael Rawdon rated Sethra Lavode: 2 stars
Sethra Lavode by Steven Brust (Khaavren Romances, #5)
Michael Rawdon rated Millennium: 3 stars
Michael Rawdon rated Dark Water's Embrace: 4 stars
Michael Rawdon rated Replay: 5 stars
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his …