This novel offers a bit of context on why Grand Moff Tarkin is the way he is (well, was the way he was I guess).
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This is a first-hand account from Lawrence Anthony, a conservationist who ran the Thula Thula game reserve in South Africa.
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I enjoyed the “New Hope” edition of From a Certain Point of View.
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Written by Dr. Katie Mack, a witty cosmologist with a nice writing style, this book outlines a number of ways the universe might end.
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I had the wrong impression about “Dune.”
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The story of how Orson Krennic duped Galen Erso into helping construct the Death Star is not a story that needed to be told.
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Alphabet Squadron is the first in a three-book “Star Wars” series that’s set after the Battle of Endor.
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This is the final book in John Scalzi’s Interdependency trilogy.
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A great what-if question gets my mind turning.
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This is the final book in Alex White’s Salvagers series.
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This book has decent reviews and it was compared to “The Expanse,” and that’s catnip for me.
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This is the third book in the “Themis Files” series.
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This is a silly and frivolous continuation of the mystery-robots-and-ancient-aliens nonsense introduced in Sleeping Giants.
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It’s been a little while since I read a book I hadn’t read before. It was nice to get back to it.
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This is the second time I’ve read the fourth book in the Red Rising series.
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This is the final book in the first Red Rising trilogy.
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This is book No. 2 in the Red Rising series.
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I’m re-reading Pierce Brown’s Red Rising series.
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I listened to this because reviews noted that it addressed some of the story holes in “Rise of Skywalker.” Those holes bothered me.
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This is the follow up to The Forever War.
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This is a well regarded science fiction novel that was written by Joe Haldeman in the 1970s.
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This book is set between “The Last Jedi” and “The Rise of Skywalker.”
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This “Star Wars” book follows Ahsoka about a year after Order 66.
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This is another book of stories from John Hodgman.
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I’ve always liked John Hodgman.
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This book is set a few years after “Return of the Jedi.”
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I started reading this book because it was sitting on a table at home. I kept reading it because it’s touching.
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This is the third Thrawn book I’ve read. They’re all interesting enough, but the story is spinning its wheels.
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Reading Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book Wherever You Go, There You Are was an important part of my initial embrace and exploration of mindfulness. I remember being struck by the simple, yet profound, perspectives.
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This book takes place in two time periods.
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I picked this book up on a whim at the library. It’s a collection of 40 short stories covering secondary characters during “A New Hope.”
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This is the second book in John Scalzi’s Lock In series. It’s fun, but it’s not as good as the original Lock In.
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John Scalzi writes quick reads that are thoughtful and have depth. I’m not sure how he does it.
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Yes. I like to read “Star Wars” books like Thrawn. No, I am not embarrassed about that.
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This book took me a little while to get into, but once I did I was all in.
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I adore the “Expanse” series. I re-read this book–the fourth in the series–in advance of season four of “The Expanse” TV show coming to Amazon in December.
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I’m having a hard time understanding how I feel about this book, and about Dan Simmons’ writing in general.
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Shea Serrano is someone I’d like to hang out with.
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The subhead on this book hints at a hopefulness that isn’t really in the book.
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John Scalzi is my kind of writer (I read all of the Old Man’s War series and Red Shirts was a phenomenal one-off).
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I don’t usually love hyper-literate sci-fi / pop-culture books.
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This is the second book in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series, by Cixin Liu. Like the first book, there is some widlly imaginative stuff in here.
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This is the fifth book in the Red Rising series and it is quite the epic (750 pages).
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It was very interesting to enter into a universe where Earth encounters an alien society but it’s filtered through a Chinese perspective.
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This is the third Wayfarer book.
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This is the second book in Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer series.
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This is the second book in Alex White’s Salvagers series.
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The cover of this book says something like, “If you miss Firefly you’ll love this.” And that is 100% correct.
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I got 90% of the way through this book waiting for the plot to kick in. But it didn’t.
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