TThis book is good for so many reasons, it manages to deliver very interesting ideas but always feels grounded in the characters. It has the most interesting imagining of non-human intelligence I've seen.
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ch1n3du rated Under the Udala trees: 5 stars
Under the Udala trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Ijeoma, a young Nigerian girl displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from …
ch1n3du rated The Real World of Technology: 4 stars
The Real World of Technology by Ursula M. Franklin (CBC Massey lecture series)
In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the …
ch1n3du rated Under the Udala trees: 4 stars
Under the Udala trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Ijeoma, a young Nigerian girl displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from …
ch1n3du rated Children of Ruin: 4 stars
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Thousands …
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Pet, #1)
The highly-anticipated, genre-defying new novel by award-winning author Akwaeke Emezi that explores themes of identity and justice. Pet is here …
ch1n3du rated The Death of Vivek Oji: 5 stars
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew?
One afternoon, in a town …
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism by Wendy Liu
Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why …
ch1n3du rated The order of time: 4 stars
The order of time by Carlo Rovelli
Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we …
ch1n3du reviewed Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find …
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5 stars
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the …
ch1n3du rated This Is How You Lose the Time War: 5 stars
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
ch1n3du rated Parable of the Sower: 5 stars
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Earthseed, #1)
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. …