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The Empire has fallen, but its remnants cling to power on the Outer Rim of the galaxy. The job of mopping up these remnants has been left to Republic Colonel Sigourney Weaver, and she’s gonna need all the bounty hunters and their adorable sidekicks/surrogate alien children she can find to…
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Trapped in a meaningless cycle of work, commuting, and isolation, a young worker in a busy Japanese city notices a man on his subway car brutally berating a young mother for her baby’s crying. Disturbed by the display, but paralyzed by fear and inertia, he turns away and blocks out…
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A Guest In The House by E.M. Carroll I loved the art. The careful use of color in the protagonist’s mostly black-and-white world conveys emotions powerfully. I like how ambiguous the ending was, both in not spelling out fully what happened as well as leaving a huge mystery about who…
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Stories about characters like Punisher that dig deep into the grimmest, darkest grim darkness are, Frank-ly speaking, a dime a dozen. It takes a writer like Garth Ennis, with a vile and blackhearted sense of humor and a grotesquely sprawling imagination, to make one of these stories feel like something…
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Team-up books can be a lot. Morrison leans hard into the just-too-muchness of an all-in Justice League story by following news broadcasts and other mass communications from place to place and character to character, creating a pulsing rhythm that kept me engaged where I sometimes find my interest drifting in…
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Sarah Wynn-Williams began her career in diplomacy and international relations. At the UN, she found herself working with other bureaucrats who got into their line of work because they care – about peace, about climate and our environment, about improving quality of life for people around the world. She also…
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I love to read a time travel story that’s as well thought out as this one. While tearing through the fast-paced plot, you’ll notice over and over again that something that was set up earlier without even appearing to be foreshadowing thunks perfectly into place. Using the inherent limitations of…
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A strong second outing for forensic accountant/shaggy neo-noir hero Marty Hench. Doctorow writes with a passionate point of view and a strong social conscience. He is mad about the private prison industry and its abuse of human rights in the name of profit, and he illustrates how the whole ugly scam plays…
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This book meanders its way through Cleveland’s history and episodes from Pekar’s life with the rambling cadence of a stroll through an old neighborhood. Even with so much of the focus on historical facts, Pekar finds plenty of moments to delight in the splendor of being alive. He was a…
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This book plays out like an exciting transitional episode of a serialized TV show, and I mean that as a compliment. Murderbot finally catches back up with its primary crew of humans, and Wells does a fantastic job revealing important elements of Murderbot and Dr. Mensah’s personalities through moments of…
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