Andreas Fuchs

This was really fun but you can tell the twist from miles away. I cringed a little at the awful German (“Frau!”).

It's quite a decent reportage of things that go on as very rich people justify taking even more while giving back scraps to those they deem deserving. But could this have done with a few fewer antisemitic dogwhistles, I wonder. “Protocols”? “Globalists”? Some of these words have taken on very specific meanings in this internet-poisoned age and maybe we could have done without seeing them be pounded on quite so heavily in this book.

Still pretty good, though I'd recommend “Debt” over this.

It's a fine sci-fi book (3.5 stars), but I was pretty dismayed to find that it's named after not-necessarily-a-war-criminal-but-not-not-a-war-criminal Kurt Waldheim's recording on the Voyager probe.

This was a really gripping story, pretty well told. Unfortunately the ebook edition had several misprints and grammatical errors that broke immersion...

One thing that never left me alone reading this was that this isn't a book, medium-wise - it's a role-playing computer game. Quite fun to read though, that rpg.

This was quite original; 3.5 stars. Unfortunately I got it as an audiobook, but the narration wasn't very fantastic, so I'm rounding down.

It's less of a book and more of a tweet storm. Chapters are short, quick bites of action. We know how it goes, he tells it. The plot is a fun caper, more or less (as fun as several hellworlds tied together over a pan-temporal internet exchange allow). Enjoyable, if only for the escapism from this particular hellworld. But not as great as The Peripheral.