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a rough ramble

Review from The Ministry for the Future →

Cool ideas; crap story. Kim can’t seem to integrate good ideas into the story, so we ultimately don’t remember the ideas or care about the story. Excellent interludes, introducing sci-fi ideas that truly feel logical and inevitable. Given that the setting is our world and the topic is climate change, that’s impressive. However, the story..

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It’s Alright…

Review from Financial Sorcery →

I love Jason Miller’s books for the most part. As for this one… it’s a decent read if you’re new to his work I suppose. My issue with this particular book is that I’ve heard / read all of this information in his other works. Specifically, if you’ve read “The Sorcerer’s Secrets”, you read 90%..

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Struggled

Review from Brink of War →

You have to suspend reality completely to read this book. Normally I can do that for the sake of a great story. I just couldn’t get there with this one. Not enough of the plot seemed remotely plausible for me to enjoy this book.

Kept me interested

Review from The New Neighbor →

I listened to this book during a long drive, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It kept me unsure about what would happen next. The characters were flawed and interesting. Highly recommend.

Distracting narration of a solid fictional eco socialism case study

Review from The Ministry for the Future →

Extremely distracting and at times confusing having eleven different narrators sometimes performing the same characters but with different accents and cadences. But if you can get past that, the book itself is pretty good, with a well-thought and vividly realized portrayal of near future climate collapse. some may say the human solutions are overly optimistic,..

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