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Death’s End – Cixin Liu

On October 20, 2021October 16, 2021 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

All good things must come to an end, or at least so they say. And so does the trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past. This final installment is the most daring in terms of scale. Cixin Liu shows that imagination knows no limits. He deftly navigates between the infinitely small, only to propel us to the …

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Contact – Carl Sagan

On July 19, 2021July 18, 2021 By bookskepticIn Reviews3 Comments

My only explanation why I read this classic of sci-fi only now is that I rarely dabbed in the sci-fi space. Recently this has started slowly changing and when someone recommends a book to me I tend to try it and usually with a good outcome. It was the same with this one. A book …

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The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu

On May 19, 2021May 21, 2021 By bookskepticIn Reviews5 Comments

I’m no expert on sci-fi, but for me, this was one of the eeriest reads recently. Pushing me out of my comfort zone and making me consider other, foreign to me perspectives. I always believed that good sci-fi asks the question about what does it mean to be human. This one asks many even bigger …

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