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Shadrack Antwi
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Writer, reader, reviewer

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I reviewed Echoes of the Doyen by Barima Okyere-Darko: a historical biography of one of the men who helped Ghana to achieve independence from colonial rule.

Full Review: librbooks.com/2026/06/02/b...

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Book review – echoes from the doyen: j.b. danquah to ghana and africa by Barima okyere-darko
In the struggle for independence which swept across Africa and much of the global south from about the 1940s to as late as the 1980s, one of the men who played a more than significant role in build…
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June 2, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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I reviewed The Way to Dawn by Charles Lee: young adults who met at a sword fight competition then face each other in a magic world where dark forces threaten all

Full Review: librbooks.com/2026/05/06/b...

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May 6, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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I reviewed Aftershocks by Marko Kloos: a multi-planetary human system recovering from a brutal interplanetary war is beset by hit and run attacks by an unknown enemy.

Full Review: librbooks.com/2026/03/30/b...

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book review: Aftershocks by marko Kloos
The title Aftershocks says a lot about this novel which opens in a fairly luxurious prisoners of war (POW) residence, where the intransigent Grecians who had waged war against most of the other pla…
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March 30, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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‪I reviewed "Stigma" by Mark P. Haskins

Mysterious letter displays(stigmas) start appearing over the heads of people. As panic spreads, what are the crisis and opportunities?

Full review: librbooks.com/2025/12/29/b...

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December 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I reviewed "The Echo" by C. R. Wahl

Physicists with information-seeking algos discover beamed alien messages amidst the seeming noise of deep space. What's the message?

Full review: librbooks.com/2025/10/23/b...

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Book review: the Echo by c. r. wahl
A team of physicists in Amsterdam intercept an alien message sent 40 thousand years ago across the galaxy. Using advanced physics and information theory, they gradually decipher the message. Who ar…
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October 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I reviewed "Mickey7" by Edward Ashton

What happens when a mistake results two versions of an expandable on a limited resource interstellar colony with hostile alien species?

Full review: www.librbooks.com/blog/wcff4k1...

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Book Review: Mickey7 by Edward Ashton — Libary Books by Shadrack Antwi
A technology that allows a person’s consciousness to be transferred to a printed organic body enables the use of Expandables: persons who are basically guinea pigs for dangerous tasks. When an expanda...
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August 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I reviewed "Braking Day" by Adam Oyebanji

Competing visions of humans & technology, the human condition on a far flung fleet in outer space in a relatable way to our current world.

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June 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I reviewed Red Creek by Kyle Belote (A Booktasters review)
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Shadrack Antwi's review of Red Creek
4/5: Disillusioned Maro Prakk has decided to leave the military and the atrocities he’s witnessing, enabling, or partaking as sergeant in a military tasked to fight literal monsters, so-called hostile...
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May 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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May 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I reviewed Freedom by Daniel Suarez (Book 2 of the Daemon Series). Book 2 is more about the people who join the Daemon to employ it's Darknet to create an off-main-grid techno-utopia.

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Book Review: Freedom by Daniel Suarez (Book 2 of the Daemon Series) — Libary Books by Shadrack Antwi
I read Book 1 of the “Daemon” Series, about a year ago. It was good enough for me to get the sequel as soon as I learned about it. The Daemon series is about a daemon computer program, essentially a n...
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May 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I reviewed "Renegade" by Joel Sheppard. Space military novel.

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Book Review: Renegade (Spiral Wars Book 1) — Libary Books by Shadrack Antwi
This is a novel with stories and histories spanning thousands and millions of years and merchant and war ships traversing light year distances across galactic empires and diverse species of humans and...
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April 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM