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Lia Swope Mitchell

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Lia Swope Mitchell is a translator and a writer of fiction with a speculative bent. She has a PhD in French from the University of Minnesota. Thanks to anyone who reads Lia's stuff. ...more

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KREE by Manuela Draeger: Reviews!

Reviews have been coming in for KREE, and I thought it would be nice to share a few here.

First, from Jake Casella Brookins at Locus Magazine: "besides Kree’s graphically violent action scenes, it is loaded with images of corpses piled deep in pits and trenches. [...] But there’s a kind of bizarro exuberance to Kree that somehow keeps it from being a downer"

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	Survival of the Fireflies by Georges Didi-Huberman, Lia Swope Mitchell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn by Brian Merchant (Editor), Claire L. Evans (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Solo Viola: A Post-Exotic Novel by Antoine Volodine, Lia Swope Mitchell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vastarien: Vol. 2, Issue 1 by Jon Padgett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gemma Files (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), David Peak (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.02 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apex Magazine Issue 92 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), James Beamon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Amanda Pekar (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2020 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nancy Kress (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), James E. Gunn (Contributor) 3.90 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asimov's Science Fiction, September/October 2022 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Greg Egan, Alastair Reynolds 4.38 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kree: A Post-Exotic Novel by Manuela Draeger, Lia Swope Mitchell (Goodreads Author) (translator) 3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Event Horizon 2017 by Jake Kerr (Goodreads Author) (Editor), George Nikolopoulos (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Victoria Sandbrook (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.06 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bonnie and Clyde 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Generally I appreciate the idea of a book about running by someone who is not an elite athlete, who sees it as a path to greater health and happiness for average people like myself. But this book felt disorganized and repetitious, and while I was int ...more
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Issues that a brave editor could fix: - reduce filtering (she saw, she thought, etc.) - cut scenes where characters tell each other about events that the author has just described - cut references to previous books in the series - liven up dialogue also: ...more
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