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Great read. Really hits home the fact we're all just making it up as we go along.

Read this as a completely random pick and loved it. Main character is fun if not daft. Some heavy topics but I blasted through it in three days. It's what they call a “page turner” in the biz

Title story and one other great. The rest were a slog

Just incredible. I don't often read short story collections but this one is on every list in history so I thought should give it a go especially as Arrival is one of my favourite movies

What a book. Every one of the stories is completely unique and each one leaves you thinking about a world operating under its parameters, and that's exactly what science fiction should do.

A pure 5 stars

Was going to be a solid 5 stars until it dragged on slightly towards the end. Love the movie but this is even better

Really loved Diamond Dogs. Did not love Turquoise days. Diamond Dogs is worth the 5 stars alone

Gypsy is a really really special short story. There's a ton of passages that just make you pause for a second. The depiction of suspended animation that goes wrong is really memorable too

These just keep getting better and I don't know how that's possible

Feel like I need to read this three times and I mean that as a compliment

Lost its way by the end

I wanted to love this book and for about a third of it I did. It felt like a nailed on 5 stars. The core concept is amazing and completely fascinating. The issue is the structure they use to explore the idea is basically inscrutable. I'd love to see some other explorations around this idea

Good concept just didn't feel particularly well developed and was slightly dull

Enjoyed this much more than small gods.

Genuinely creepy. It's short and it feels slightly underbaked because of it but the core concept of a the victim of possession going through the process of realisation and then entrapment is really interesting

Action packed and full of interesting insights into the universe of these novels. Loved the hints towards historic religions and their ties to the chantry. Great development of Crispin.

The second book I've read from this author after the automatic detective and this one is just as fun. It's an easy breezy read but it got some laughs out of me and I blasted through it in two days. Can't wait to read more from the author.

A haunted house story where the house is the villain not some nebulous evil that resides in the house. It's genuinely disturbing and shocking in places with sections that made me wince. I won't forget this any time soon. One of the best I've read this year.

I really really enjoyed this. It's snappy, funny and the characters are all charming. For all the praise the murderbot series gets this deserves the accolades much more. I only wish there were more books featuring Mack but it's fair enough when the author says what keeps him writing is chasing new characters.

Really recommended.

Barely had a plot. No idea where the love for this series comes from. Even as a novella it dragged

Short story but one that's of the same high quality as the mainline novels.

Love the main character. Like the snappy writing style. Breezed through this. Will read more in the series

Absolutely phenomenal. I loved the first in this series but this went to another level. The universe is a really interesting blend of Dune, Star Wars, game of thrones and Gladiator which then gets passed through a blender of Warhammer 40k melodrama, scale and pomposity. It's brilliant.

I've never been one to hang on “prose” when it comes to reading. generally I only really notice it when it makes the flow of a story drag, when the author gets bogged down in attempts at grand prose. Here though I practically hung on every sentence. There were passages that genuinely made me go “wow this guy can write”

That blended with some genuinely brilliant characters and a universe which slowly feels less and less understood as the religious zealotry of the human race starts to face new realities, it's completely absorbing.

As another point I'm a reader that rarely thinks books (or movies) earn their epic lengths but here I am 1300 pages into the suneater series and still wanting more. Anyone who knows me knows that's about as high a compliment as I can give.

Note: I jumped between audiobook and kindle book here. The audiobook is fantastic. There is a change in narrator from the first books audiobook and it's welcome. This is one of the best narrated audiobooks I've listened to and I wasn't a huge fan of how the first book was presented as an audiobook

Started off great but final half was a monumental slog. Simply didn't care about any characters and the core idea wasn't well explained. Had tons of potential but didn't fulfil it

Held up as literary genius but it is not.

boring

Bafflingly dull. For all the hate 3BP gets for lack of character etc this is worse. Nothing but ideas. Good ideas yes, but that's all it is