Sue Burke
Author of Semiosis
About the Author
Series
Works by Sue Burke
Spiders 3 copies
Healthy Wealthy and Wise 2 copies
Aliens Love Oranges 1 copy
Summer Home 1 copy
Life From the Sky 1 copy
Associated Works
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Presents Flush Fiction: 88 Short Short Stories You Can Read in a Single Sitting (Uncle… (2012) — Contributor — 29 copies
Castles in Spain: 25 Years of Spanish Fantasy and Science Fiction (2016) — Lead translator — 19 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1955
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Madrid, Spain
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Education
- University of Milwaukee
- Agent
- Jennifer Goloboy
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Reviews
Semiosis: A Novel (Semiosis Duology, 1) by Sue Burke
I wanted to like this book but I just couldn’t. There were several Serbs that I found completely off putting and while I like it in theory I just found myself not caring about anyone.
What a great book! It's hard to really write about it without any spoilers though...
Let's just say it wasn't quite what I thought it would be and turned out to be much better than expected. There were times that really gripped me and I could hardly put it down.
I'm looking forward to the sequel and can only hope that it's at least as good as this one.
Let's just say it wasn't quite what I thought it would be and turned out to be much better than expected. There were times that really gripped me and I could hardly put it down.
I'm looking forward to the sequel and can only hope that it's at least as good as this one.
What an incredible book! A truly engaging, unpredictable plot, great character development, but most importantly a deep exploration of the notion of civilization, the nature of communication (both its limits and how it is less limited than we might think), individual ethical choices when balancing short vs. long-term goods in a crisis, sentience (what does it mean to be sentient, to be aware, to be intelligent), family structures, the conditions in which humans/human-like beings can and can't live peacefully with each other.
In a fun coincidence, I just came across this book exploring vegetal life and pushing on our framing and understanding of it.Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World. You can buy it and/or download a free PDF, which is what I'm going to do.… (more)
In a fun coincidence, I just came across this book exploring vegetal life and pushing on our framing and understanding of it.Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World. You can buy it and/or download a free PDF, which is what I'm going to do.… (more)
A good story that mostly deserves 4 stars but fell flat toward the end and left me feeling unsatisfied. 3 stars overall.
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