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Alex Ellermann

@alexellermann.bsky.social

Perfect vacation? Coffee, rain, and books. I only DM with people I know IRL.

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Review by alex_ellermann - Network Effect Books like ‘Network Effect’ are why I love science fiction.

On its face, ‘Network Effect’ is ...

'Network Effect' isn't just a rollicking science fiction adventure. It's a thoughtful take on the human condition disguised as a rollicking science fiction adventure.
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08.03.2026 02:32 — 👍 127    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Scottish Opera offers hugely discounted tickets to people under the age of 26. In fact most of the theatres here do, usually for around £10. Which means you could see a whole live show for less than the cost of a ticket to one of Timothee Chalamet’s films. Just saying.

06.03.2026 19:47 — 👍 3814    🔁 522    💬 50    📌 0
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Livesuit by James S.A. Corey The first novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey's epic Captive's War series.Humanity's...

‘Livesuit’ is a tight little sci-fi story with a Twilight Zone twist. I’m here for it.
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06.03.2026 23:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can dig it. It’s perfectly legit to not fall in love with a given work.

06.03.2026 18:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s a perfectly valid take. I thought it added depth. Better, it did so through exciting storytelling.

06.03.2026 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I feel like I haven’t truly finished a book until I’ve written about it.

How about you?
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06.03.2026 04:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You say you’re into literary fiction.

Middlemarch ranks among the greatest novels ever written.

Pride & Prejudice is up there, too.

Read them because they’ll entertain, delight, and challenge you.

06.03.2026 02:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Review by alex_ellermann - Fatale, Vol. 3: West of Hell Volume Three of ‘Fatale,’ the horror noir comic from the team of writer Ed Brubaker and artist...

If you aren’t reading Brubaker & @seanphillips.bsky.social, I don’t know how we can be friends.
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06.03.2026 02:18 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Review by alex_ellermann - The Mercy of Gods ‘The Mercy of Gods,’ Book One of the new series ‘The Captive’s War,’ is nerd manna.Author Jame...

‘The Mercy of Gods’ is a page-turning science fiction adventure, sure. It’s also a masterpiece of speculative xenobiology.

If the nerds in your life have birthdays coming up, you know what to get them.

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04.03.2026 23:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a great title!

03.03.2026 16:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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February was a good month for reading. The best of the bunch? ‘The Bad Weather Friend,’ by Dean Koontz.
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Review by alex_ellermann - The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb ‘The Winter Fortress’ is a true story well told.Though billed as the story of one particular r...

‘The Winter Fortress’ makes an excellent companion to ‘American Prometheus.’
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27.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War by Rick Claypool There are hideous mutants on the Moon. Their bodies are messed up in weird ways and they live in ...

Well, that and the title.

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26.02.2026 22:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I love it. Rock on.

25.02.2026 12:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What is AWP?

25.02.2026 02:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Star Trek Prometheus: Fire with Fire by Bernd Perplies, Alec Newman, Christian Humberg The Federation races to discover the culprits of several terrorist attacks, sending their flagshi...

This Star Trek novel makes me want to stop reading Star Trek novels.
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25.02.2026 00:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Review by alex_ellermann - The Bad Weather Friend I loved ‘The Bad Weather Friend.’In a literary landscape littered with despair and drudgery, ‘...

‘The Bad Weather Friend’ is a joy.
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24.02.2026 07:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Review by alex_ellermann - The Midnight Line This is a remarkably good Jack Reacher novel.Yes, it has all the Reacher staples: the man show...

A Jack Reacher novel that doubles as a sensitive exploration of opioid addiction? I did not see that coming.
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19.02.2026 08:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Review by alex_ellermann - Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War I will never not eat the jerk goat from the roadside stand.Once, on vacation in Jamaica, I pul...

How can a book titled 'Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War' possibly miss?

This book finds a way.
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15.02.2026 04:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When your first officer tells you he's reading "Children of Time" and you think, 'Yeah. This is going to be a great trip.'
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14.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Review by alex_ellermann - The Great Bridge Eat your vegetables.‘The Great Bridge’ is a doorstop history about the building of the Brookly...

Engineers in general will love ‘The Great Bridge.’  Technically literate readers will find it admirable.  Poets may want to give it a pass.

Recommended for: engineers, New Yorkers, and engineers from New York.

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14.02.2026 00:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would listen.

12.02.2026 16:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A seaside resort in Dakar

A seaside resort in Dakar

Just like Bono,
I am Africa!

12.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Review by alex_ellermann - Nightshade Michael Connelly delivers another winner with his latest mystery, ‘Nightshade.’With this outin...

Looking for a detective novel to while away a winter’s evening or two? ‘Nightshade’ fits the bill.
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11.02.2026 11:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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10.02.2026 12:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You aren't in RI, are you? My wife is a lawyer and a classicist. She'd probably love it.

10.02.2026 12:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not a lawyer. Would take that class.

10.02.2026 04:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Was I the only one watching that Matthew Broderick Super Bowl commercial and thinking, "All of these people will be unemployed by the end of the decade?"

10.02.2026 02:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I have the physical books lined up on a shelf in my bedroom. They're among the first things I see every morning.

09.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0