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“Your insolence is disproportionate to your potency,”

"a trick that broke so many laws of physics, Eva was surprised the reality police hadn’t rolled up to write some tickets."

"The design was otherwise similar—bipedal, four-fingered hands, animal-skull-shaped head—"

"animal-skull-shaped head—"

"animal-skull-shaped"

o_0

"Her damage meter read 69% now. Nice."

"with a deliberateness that had to be intentional"

I think deliberateness implies intention.

"Also, she told herself, you’re naked and rotating in a stasis field, so your options are limited anyway."

"Eva’s hope vanished like a fart on a breeze."

"She told that part of her to eat nails and shit blood."

"they formed up in three single-file lines and turned in unison to face Sue."

This sounds a lot like a triple-file line to me. o_0

"Eva sat on her bed and watched her fish swim in their tank, bright and oblivious."

"She had never signed a nondisclosure agreement before, but she didn’t think that death or imprisonment was a normal repercussion."

A little more action than the first one and a lot more drama so far.

"It was about two feet long, and ugly."

I've just finished the original short story and I'm going to read the expanded story now

Characters have grown on me a bit now and I think I'm enjoying this more overall than Freedom's Landing.

"Sentiency implies both loyalty and treachery."

Hrm.

"I want to know what we know now, not what my parents might have heard when they were children. What difference does it make if someone in the distant past thought there were canals on Mars?"

This has been very good! Guess who'll be throwing Ringworld (and the rest of the 'Known Space' series) back in the current pile? Me! It's me!

Having the same problem that I always do with collections.... my review, built out of a few brief notes for each story, has grown into a monstrosity.

"It is a supremely cruel thing to have your mind conjure a desire which it is functionally unable to realize. No one teaches you how to handle the death of a dream."

I am determined to finish this today!

Let's say I'm enjoying this more than I was two days ago, but not enough to say I'm loving the experience and I am definitely done for the day. At least I've passed half way now, although I plan to skip a day tomorrow again and read something else to break it up. As for the rest of tonight, I've got four episodes of Strange New Worlds left and I intend to get through them all before pass out time.

ATTENTION READERS! I NEED SOME HELP.

I'm currently experimenting with tags to try to organise myself a bit better on GR but every time I add a tag it adds the book to my updates feed and I'm doing hundreds of books at a time so this is going to completely flood everyone's feeds. Is there a way to do it and avoid spamming everyone??

Toothache, can't concentrate and can't read. Has been pretty good so far with a few oddities.

That's how far I made it yesterday and then I woke up this morning and decided that I'm going to read something else today, ha! So I think I'll read this every second day and squeeze some fun stuff in between.

I think this is more a matter of my taste and not an indication of the quality of the writing, which has been good enough to make me laugh and scream in equal measure so far.

Ok. Alright. I'm calm. And I'm glad that I drove on, not long after my earlier hissy fit the narrative had me laughing out loud. It's still not exactly my cup o' tea, being not at all scifi, but, well... I'm almost a seventh of the way in so I suppose I'm committed now.

I don't know if I can do this. I've just watched a kid get castrated and I'm thinking wtf am I doing here?! Because I'm a douche I often pick up a book just because of the title or author or cover and fail to check the blurb and now I'm reading a goddamn alt history by accident instead of the scifi I thought I was starting..... I am going to persist a little longer, but pray for me folks. I'm in deep.

Home stretch. End in sight.

Alright, alright.... I'm back on track. ETA is under 10 hours.

Ok, I'm done with this.... for a minute. Still having fun but I need a break. I usually knock out a book in a day easily enough and this is now crossing over into a third day so, a couple of short stories will suffice to refill my cup.