This is a short and fast paced novel
with an interesting premise almost like an old school detective story but with
a murderer in the lead instead of a Private Dick.
‘Spademan
used to be a garbage man.
Before
the dirty bomb hit Times Square. Before his wife was killed. Before Manhattan
became a burnt-out shell.
Now
he’s a hitman.
It’s
not so different from his old job – waste disposal is waste disposal. He
doesn’t ask questions, he works quickly and he’s handy with a box cutter. But
his latest client hires him to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist, the
client’s sordid agenda brings chaos into Spademen’s uncluttered life.
Spademan
must navigate the wasteland of New York to finish the job, clear his own
conscience and make sure he’s not the one who ends up in the ground.’
This story has an epic scale story
with an intimate personal feel to it using a lovely turn of language to
demonstrate the alien culture (non-gender specific). I really enjoyed it.
‘On
a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing
her quest.
Breq
is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was Justice of
Toren–a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence
linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire
that conquered the galaxy.
An
act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile
human body. And only one purpose–to revenge herself on Anaander Mianaai,
many-bodied, near-immortal Lord of the Radch.’
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