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puercomal reviewed The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang (Tensorate, #1)
The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of standalone introductions to JY …
Review of 'The Black Tides of Heaven' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
puercomal rated Radical Candor: 5 stars
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time …
puercomal rated The fuzzy systems handbook: 5 stars
puercomal rated The Rediscovery of Man: 3 stars
puercomal rated Statistics Done Wrong: 5 stars
puercomal rated Microserfs: 4 stars
Review of 'Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun #1-2)' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
Finally gave up, it's just not getting better.
puercomal rated The Theory That Would Not Die: 4 stars
The Theory That Would Not Die by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get …
puercomal rated Inversions: 3 stars
Inversions by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #6)
In the winter palace, the King’s new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also …
puercomal rated The Refrigerator Monologues: 4 stars
Catherynne M. Valente: The Refrigerator Monologues (2017)
The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente
The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics.
A …
puercomal rated Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble: 4 stars
puercomal rated All Systems Red: 4 stars
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
puercomal reviewed The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts
Review of 'The Thing Itself' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Too smart for me, but it was well-written and pretty enjoyable. Dragged a bit towards the end when I felt that characters were starting to behave against their prior characteristics without justification. I enjoyed the vignettes more than the frame.
If you want to pick up your first Adam Roberts, I would recommend Yellow Blue Tibia over this.
puercomal rated The Delirium Brief: 4 stars
The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross (Laundry Files, #8)
Someone is dead set to air the spy agency's dirty laundry in The Delirium Brief , the next installment to …