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The Core Dump

The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.

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    Book roundup, part 40

    Includes American Gun, I Want to Burn This Place Down, Blood Royal, Scorpio and Corvus.

    Sunday, March 08, 2026

    Book roundup, part 39

    Includes Empire of AI, Crossroads of Ravens, The Tainted Cup, and A Drop of Corruption.

    Sunday, October 26, 2025

    Book roundup, part 38

    Includes Dark Wire, The Crusaders, Dominion, The Mercy of Gods, Livesuit, and Weaponized.

    Sunday, March 16, 2025

    Book roundup, part 37

    Includes Doppelgänger, Be Useful, Rose/House, System Collapse, and Empire of the Wolf.

    Saturday, May 11, 2024

    Book roundup, part 36

    Includes Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Extremely Online, Number Go Up, Mercury Rising, The End of the Myth, and The Big Break.

    Friday, November 03, 2023

    Book roundup, part 35

    Includes Hello World, A Frozen Hell, Powers and Thrones, Dead Country, Blitz, The Hope that Kills, and Worth Killing For.

    Monday, June 05, 2023

    Book roundup, part 34

    We pour one out for The Expanse and Sandman Slim, and we raise our glasses for a sequel to Malazan. Also, an extra-bleak Holocaust tour and a discussion of how cults control their members through language. Includes Cultish, Nein, Nein, Nein, Driven, Happy-go-Lucky, The Nineties, Fargo Rock City, The Scholast in the Low Water Kingdom, King Bullet, The God is Not Willing, and Leviathan Falls.

    Sunday, October 30, 2022

    Book roundup, part 33

    Why your body hurts, lots of politics, and some truly demented grimdark fantasy in this installment. Includes Reign of Terror, Evolution Gone Wrong, The Cruelty is the Point, How to be a Liberal, The Splendid and the Vile, Deep Work, A Desolation Called Peace, Black Stone Heart, and She Dreams in Blood.

    Monday, September 06, 2021

    Book roundup, part 32

    Includes Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You), Pappyland, Backstory, and Medallion Status.

    Saturday, February 20, 2021

    Book roundup, part 31

    Some very good history, some very strange novels and some slick space opera. Includes Enemy of all Mankind, A Very Punchable Face, Confederates in the Attic, Ballistic Kiss, Harrow the Ninth, The Library at Mount Char, Children of Time, The Last Emperox, and Cage of Souls.

    Sunday, September 20, 2020

    Book roundup, part 30

    Back once again with the sci-fi and general calamity. Includes The End is Always Near, Eat the Apple, A Memory Called Empire, Gideon the Ninth, Infinite Detail, Permafrost, Fallen, and The October Man.

    Monday, January 20, 2020

    Book roundup, part 29

    A sci-fi and fantasy heavy installment that includes The Valedictorian of Being Dead, The Mastermind, Broadsword Calling Danny Boy, Tiamat’s Wrath, The Raven Tower, The Liberation, The Light Brigade and Cryptonomicon.

    Tuesday, May 14, 2019

    Book roundup, part 28

    Includes The Incomplete Book of Running, Aching God, The Murderbot Diaries, Lies Sleeping, The Consuming Fire, and Rendezvous with Rama.

    Sunday, February 17, 2019

    Book roundup, part 27

    Includes Hollywood Dead, Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, The Court of Broken Knives, and Port of Shadows.

    Friday, October 19, 2018

    Book roundup, part 26

    Includes The Storm Before the Storm, White Trash, Calypso, Tell the Machine Goodnight, Prince of Fools, and Provenance.

    Friday, August 03, 2018

    Book roundup, part 25

    Mostly excellent non-fiction in this installment. Includes Fantasyland, The Miracle of Dunkirk, Das Reich, The Undoing Project, Waiting for the Punch, Vacationland and Points of Impact.

    Saturday, March 03, 2018

    Book roundup, part 24

    Lots of sci-fi in this installment. Includes Retribution, Boomerang, The Collapsing Empire, All Systems Red, and Ninefox Gambit.

    Monday, November 27, 2017

    Book roundup, part 23

    Includes a mea culpa, Hillbilly Elegy, Gulp, The Stars are Legion, and The Kill Society.

    Sunday, July 16, 2017

    Book roundup, part 22

    Lots of fiction series in this one. Includes Grunt, 1177 B.C., Louder Than Hell, Smarter Faster Better, The Hanging Tree, Death’s End, Chains of Command, and Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?.

    Thursday, December 15, 2016

    Review: Kindle Oasis

    The Oasis is Amazon’s best e-ink reader to date, but it’s not good enough for the price.

    Friday, August 05, 2016

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