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Judge Dredd Year One

Abaddon Books paperback edition of Judge Dredd Year One

I know these 2000AD novels aren’t what you would call mainstream reads for book lovers, since their origins were established in comics, but I love this world. So I’m indulging myself.


Lock In by John Scalzi (2014)
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Lock In by John Scalzi (2014)

This book feels quite different right from the opening, from a reading point of view. With a heavy focus on character interaction and dialogue, and almost no mental insight of character emotion. It all feels very unique and intriguing, at first.

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Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement (1954)
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Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement (1954)

I didn't get exactly what I was expecting here. But then, do you ever with lesser-known classic Sci-Fi books? Mission of Gravity doesn't follow the first contact formula we usually see today.

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Street Freaks by Terry Brooks (2018)
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Street Freaks by Terry Brooks (2018)

I was quite jazzed about this book for the first couple of chapters, I thought there was a lot of potential for the world and happenings within it. Unfortunately, things went downhill incredibly quickly.

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Network Effect by Martha Wells (2020)
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Network Effect by Martha Wells (2020)

This is a tough one to write.
I absolutely loved all four Murderbot novellas, and desperately wanted this full-length novel to be as good, or even better. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.

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