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Robot Uprisings
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Lena
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Cycles by Charles Yu ★★★★★
That was an emotional journey! The story started deadpan with the promise of violence, then turned humorous, but ended so heartwarmingly I was verklempt...
talk amongst yourselves...
I need a minute.

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We Are All Misfit Toys In the Aftermath of the Velveteen War by Seanan McGuire ★★★★½
Mira Grant, goddess of the gut punch. Mira Grant, queen of Dark and Clever SciFi. (view spoiler)
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Canavan
Aug 04, 2020 rated it liked it
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“Complex God”, Scott Sigler (2014) ✭✭✭½
“Cycles”, Charles Yu (2014) ✭✭✭½
“Lullaby”, Anna North (2014) ✭✭✭
“Eighty Miles an Hour All the Way to Paradise”, Genevieve Valentine (2014) ✭✭✭
“Executable”, Hugh Howey (2012) ✭✭
“The Omnibot Incident”, Ernest Cline (2014) ✭✭
“Epoch”, Cory Doctorow (2010) ✭✭✭✭½
“Human Intelligence”, Jeff Abbott (2014) ✭½
“The Golden Hour”, Julianna Baggott (2014) ✭✭✭½
“Sleepover”, Alastair Reynolds (2010) ✭✭✭½
“Seasoning”, Alan Dean Foster (2014) ✭✭½
“Nanonauts! In Battle with Ti
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Shomeret
Jul 21, 2020 rated it liked it
I read this because a science fiction and fantasy anthology group is discussing it. I expected to like it better than I did.

I had to push myself to read through the first story when nothing about it particularly interested me. I decided that I couldn't afford the time to read more of stories like that one. On the other hand, I really loved "Spider the Artist" by Nnedi Okorafor despite it being dark. I was inclined to like it because she is a favorite author. One of the reasons why she is a favor
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