Luke reviews the classic novel Gateway by Frederick Pohl.
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Luke reviews the classic novel Gateway by Frederick Pohl.
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A shorter episode about a second book in a series… how will Luke review The Temporal Void without spoiling four other novels by Peter F Hamilton? Luke was very tired when recording this, so hopes his words are understanderbubble.
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Luke talks about 2008, about his own attempts at writing a novel, and offers listeners a chance to read it. He then looks back at all the books he reviewed in 2008 to give quick summaries and to see if he agrees with his original ratings.
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Luke experiences inverse synergy with Nightfall, a book by science fiction greats Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg.
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“How the hell did this book win a Hugo award?” asks Luke, then has a rant about Robert J Sawyer’s Hominids. Multiple rants, in fact.
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A spaceship the size of Jupiter traveling at half the speed of light battles with a nebula… Luke reviews The Well of Stars by Robert Reed.
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Luke reads Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, a story about a dirty, bedraggled, begrimed, black, contaminated, cruddy, crummy, defiled, disarrayed, dishabille, disheveled, dreggy, dungy, dusty, filthy, foul, fouled, greasy, grimy, grubby, grungy, icky, lousy, messy, mucky, muddy, mung, murky, nasty, pigpen, polluted, raunchy, scummy, scuzzy, slatternly, slimy, sloppy, slovenly, smudged, smutty, sooty, spattered, spotted, squalid, stained, straggly, sullied, undusted, unhygienic, unkempt, unlaundered, unsanitary, unsightly, unswept, untidy, unwashed, yucky city called New Crobuzon.
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Luke enjoys getting interesting feedback far more than he enjoys reading non-canon Dune books such as Paul of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
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Luke reviews a childhood favorite, the John Wyndham classic post-apocalyptic tale: The Day of the Triffids.
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In a continuing exploration into early cyberpunk, Luke reads and reviews the book that started it all, William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
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