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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 Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3): 3 stars
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games ; #3)
Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger Games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well …
Michael Rawdon rated American Gods Volume 3: 4 stars
Michael Rawdon rated A Talent For War: 5 stars
A Talent For War by Jack McDevitt (Alex Benedict, #1)
Michael Rawdon rated A Fire Upon The Deep: 5 stars
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #1)
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined …
Michael Rawdon rated Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1): 3 stars
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) by Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas, first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the …
Michael Rawdon rated The City & the City: 2 stars
The City & the City by China Miéville
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …
Michael Rawdon rated A Canticle for Leibowitz: 5 stars
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred …
Michael Rawdon rated Singularity Sky: 4 stars
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross (Eschaton, #1)
Singularity Sky is a science fiction novel by author Charles Stross, published in 2003. It was nominated for the Hugo …
Michael Rawdon rated The Armageddon Rag: 4 stars
Michael Rawdon rated Red Mars (Mars Trilogy): 3 stars
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars (1))
Red Mars is the first novel of the Mars trilogy, published in 1992. It follows the beginnings of the colonization …
Michael Rawdon rated The Peace War: 3 stars
The Peace War by Vernor Vinge
First in a quintessential hard-science fiction adventure, Hugo Award-winning author Vernor Vinge's The Peace War follows a scientist determined to …
Michael Rawdon rated The Demolished Man: 5 stars
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (A Kangaroo book)
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder?
Ben Reichs heads …
Michael Rawdon rated Chasm City: 5 stars
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space, #2)
The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has been overrun by a virus known …
