Ranking the 21 Books I Just Read (Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Lit Fic)

if you already like Kafka I think you will like this if you've never read Kafka before I would start elsewhere but thumbs up for America

Margaret stclair is an amazing writer and she's a writer that doesn't get nearly as much attention as I think that she deserves

it is way above average way above the cut solidly an a I would give it an S if it was more like constructively plotted it was really Meandering

this is my favorite example of that kind of material that I've ever read I think it is great it's two noas the first Nolla is very good the second Nolla is unbelievably weird

it reads like a high action political thriller as much as like a science fiction book and it's rather exciting and it works really well the writing is great

Gypsy is great this was published in 2015 and this is the best Peter Watts book that Peter Watts never wrote

this is my favorite crime fiction that I've ever read I haven't read that much crime fiction so I guess take that with a grain of salt Grim Bleak and gorgeously written

then it gets a little more discursive and a little bit more directly religious those parts didn't grab me quite as much I had sort of mixed feelings about it

it just wasn't there for me in the same way as it was I don't think I had read it for quite a while before I included it on that list I was running off of memory and reality does not live up to my memory unfortunately

this is a contender for best book on this list it's a contender for the top 15 I was stunned by this I was amazed by it I think it's one of the best pieces of writing not just in science fiction but in fiction period

I Tried reading a book that he co-wrote called palum sests that was his first you know proper novel he mostly wrote short fiction I didn't like that one so much I dnfed it

I don't think anybody will really be shocked to hear that I hated this book sorry yeah it's joining lob say massive bestseller

Howard was a good writer the cosmic horror elements of it were a surprise to me I didn't realize how close to Lovecraft this material actually is those bits I really loved

we are starting off strong that's an S tier it's a second wave radical feminist piece of time travel science fiction written in a really postmodern difficult and meta self-aware satirical and biting style

I thought it was a mixed bag blindsight still one of my favorite books ever and Peter Watts's writing style really serves that material quite well here I think it was every once in a while kind of a stumbling block

I thought Return of the King was not quite as good as two towers Two Towers is the best part of Lord of the Rings

it's pretty harrowing it's you know as you could imagine pretty violent and really dark and one of the saddest books that I've read

it is a bad plotless piece of fantasy fiction or historical fantasy and I said I think in the patreon review that might be an apt description for most new age books bad fantasy and I don't recommend reading it

it got obnoxiously repetitive and redundant and it gets into some Rogers alas territory towards the end of this big like overarching plot meeting its resolution but I just was underwhelmed by this

it's my first Bailey it's about two civilizations in space I thought it was good I would say it's definitely in the elevated pulp category

this is the most difficult science fiction novel that I've ever read it is the strugatsky at their most impenetrable and in some way they're most essential

I thought it was middling it had high points it had really low points you know it's PKD writing in his paranoia mode