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This is a post about all the books I have read in 2025. Each time I publish a review on HIVE, I will add one to the counter :)

#### Currently Reading: (Audio) Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
#### Currently Reading: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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### Books Read: 18

What a fantastic novel. I am looking forward to the others in the series. 


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/review-annihilation-by-jeff-vandermeer-a-poignant-and-beautiful-book-about-decay

### Books Read: 17

*A Cancticle for Leibowitz* is a tough novel to digest. It follows an order of monks through a post-apocalyptic setting on the future Earth and speculates upon whether man is committed to repeat history, or if, they perhaps can derive some sort of salvation.

https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/review-a-canticle-for-leibowitz-by-walter-m-miller-jr

### Books Read: 16

Cixin Liu's Anthology, *Hold Up the Sky* surprised me with its profound beauty and parable like nature. While the science fiction stories took a technical, universal scale, there was still human emotion.


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/complete-review-to-hold-up-the-sky-cixin-liu-anthology




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### Books Read: 15

<em>The Difference Engine</em> is meant to the birth place of steampunk novels. as far as I am concerned, it is the birthplace of a really unexciting book.


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/review-the-difference-engine-by-bruce-sterling-and-william-gibson


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### Books Read: 14

An incredibly intellectual story that sticks with you for a long period of time. It isn't easy to read, but it is profound, deep, interesting, and very good.


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/review-the-city-and-the-city-and-why-i-now-have-a-headache


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### Books Read: 13

A story I read as a child, reread as an adult. A completely different story with the wisdom of having aged.


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/enders-game-fiction-that-isnt-exactly-science-y-but-very-sci-fi-due-to-its-themes


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### Books Read: 12

One I regret reading.


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/for-us-the-living-a-comedy-of-customs-heinlein-an-alleged-master-of-sf


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### Books Read: 11

Over rated. A page turner, but so very shallow and full of silly, outdated stereotypes. 


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/project-hail-mary-is-popular-science-fiction-good-science-fiction


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### Books Read: 10

As the title of my review suggests, a story worse than the TV adaptation. 


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/altered-carbon-a-book-worse-than-the-adaptation


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### Books Read: 9

When "give me more of the universe" turns out to work really well. 


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/the-redemption-of-time-when-fan-fiction-becomes-official-and-is--good


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### Books Read: 8

A fantastic conclusion to an incredible trilogy.


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/deaths-end-the-conclusion-to-the-three-body-problems-trilogy-is-thrilling-and-life-changing


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### Books Read: 7

Quite possibly the best of the series, <em>The Dark Forest</em> is the Three Body's Problem's glamorous and intellectual middle child. 


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/review-the-dark-forest-sequel-to-the-three-body-problem


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### Books Read: 6

Where it all began. One of the most "life changing" books I've read, in terms of the approach it takes on the way we see the universe. 


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/review-the-three-body-problem-by-cixin-liu


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### Books Read: 5

Arthur C Clarke delivers a lengthy masterclass in storytelling and exploring an alien psyche. 


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/rama-revealed-the-final-rama-saga-book-reviewed-at-last


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### Books Read: 4

A sad book about the human condition, and the "end" of hope, everything goes wrong, and you're powerless to stop it. 


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/arthur-c-clarkes-and-gentry-lees-garden-of-rama-is-a-sad-place


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### Books Read: 3

Better than the original. Lots to explore. So many memorable characters. 


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/rama-ii-by-arthur-c-clarke-even-better-than-the-first-in-the-series


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### Books Read: 2

A story so filled with wonder and exploration, and suspense, but where nothing really happens. A classic, and one that should be read multiple times.


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/arthur-c-clarkes-rendezvous-with-rama-the-second-reading


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### Books Read: 1

A fantastic story at the intersections of science, religion and engineering. With a dash of politics and a space elevator. 


https://peakd.com/hive-180164/@holoz0r/the-fountains-of-paradise-arthur-c-clarke-tells-us-about-a-space-elevator