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James P. Hogan: Inherit the Stars (Paperback, 1981, Del Rey)
James P. Hogan: The Two Faces of Tomorrow (Paperback, 1997, Baen)
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James P. Hogan: Voyage from yesteryear (1982, Ballantine Books)

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Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tor.com)
John Scalzi: Starter Villain (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)
Daniel Abraham: Blade of Dream (2023, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

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75% complete! AlienBOB has read 9 of 12 books.

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started reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tor.com) 4 stars

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …

Light reading, good humor and still full of tension and excitement. I started reading the Murderbot Diaries mainly to be prepared for the upcoming Apple TV+ streaming series. I did not have high levels of anticipation, but the first book in the series is actually quite entertaining. With less than a hundred pages, it is also quite short, but I do not consider that as a negative.

finished reading Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

Yoon Ha Lee: Ninefox Gambit (2016) 4 stars

Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle …

This book is the first in a series by an author who is new to me. I am impressed by the world building, it's inventive and goes deep. Bits and pieces of history are revealed throughout the book, giving insight into the main characters' motivations and decisions. This is tense story-telling from the first to the last page, never obvious, never boring. Also, military action thriller front to back. There's still a lot of mystery left for me to think of and to explore in the other books of this "Machineries of Empire" series.