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Book reviews and reader log for Science Fiction

Never Let Me Go

★★★★☆
Kathy H, a carer for donors, reminisces about her time at Hailsham, a private institution where she spent her formative years, and her friends.

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Under the Skin

★★★★☆
Isserley drives around in her car, and picks up big muscular hitch-hikers on the highways around Scotland. She talks to them, understanding their lives, where they are headed and whether they have families and relatives who will miss them when she is done with them.

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The Stars My Destination (Tiger! Tiger!)

★★★★★
In a far future universe where people travel by thought, a barely articulate menial survivor from an inter-planetary vessel escapes jail to wreak havoc, and change the world...

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

★★★★★
A deeply moving tale of a scientist forced to confront the ethical and moral implications of his research, and pay the price for disregarding those implications.

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Cloud Atlas

★★★★★
A thought-provoking tale spanning generations and eons, from the distant past to a post-apocalyptic far future, and examines how souls drift across time, and how the souls are interconnected

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I Am Legend

★★★★★
A plague has struck, and Robert Neville is the last man alive, and the rest of the world are undead vampires, thirsting for Neville's blood. He hunts them by day, and barricades himself by night. But how long will this continue...

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A Canticle for Leibowitz

★★★★★
A ruined post-apocalyptic world is slowly nursed back to civilization by a group of cloistered monks, following the teachings of a blessed Saint Leibowitz, a Jewish military engineer from before the fall.

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Binti: Home

★☆☆☆☆
Binti comes back home from Oomza for a break, with her Meduse friend in tow. But not everyone is thrilled, as she sets out to discover more about her father's side of the family, the nomadic desert people...

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Red Rising

★☆☆☆☆
A group of teens fight each other brutally in a gladiatorial contest on Mars

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Super Sad True Love Story

★★☆☆☆
A hopeless romantic navigates a one-sided love affair while America crumbles around him. The story evolves from his diary and her social media account.

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We

★★★★☆
The grand original O.G. dystopian novel, that influenced everything from 1984 to Brave New World, and everyone from Kurt Vonnegut to Ayn Rand. D-503 of the totalitarian OneState is a mathematician who thinks in numbers and equations. But he discovers he has a soul, and passions...

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Binti

★★★☆☆
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people to be offered a place at the prestigious Oomza university. But that would mean leaving her world behind forever and entering a world at war with the Meduse...

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Jurassic Park

★★★★★
Revolutionary new techniques in genetic engineering allow scientists to bring back long-dead animals. They choose to use the technology to make the most amazing theme park ever envisioned... until something goes wrong.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

★★★★★
Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, the story follows the life of Billy Pilgrim. as he reflects on the events of his life across time and space.

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The Giver

★☆☆☆☆
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.

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Divergent

★☆☆☆☆
Tedious and pretentious young adult novel set in an unrealistic dystopian Chicago

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