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Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds - Brandon Sanderson, Urban Science Fantasy, 2012-2018
I read the first of these three works around when it was published in 2012. This is the sort of Urban Science or Fantasy, though it's basically in a "Lite" form, that I want to read more of, but I seem to have difficulty in finding. In the preface Sanderson writes that these are probably the most personal stories he's ever published, especially the third, and I believe that. Above anything else, I found them fun and enjoyable to read, and didn't have any other considerations other than that. I don't think they have that much to say other than perhaps insight into why Sanderson does as he does and is who he is. The premise is that Leeds has almost 50 other people, called aspects, living in his head that are the externalized manifestations of his knowledge that function as advisers to him. He's only able to actively imagine a few of them at a time however. Each one has their own personality and don't always behave how he would prefer them to and the aspects are often uncomfortable with being self-aware that they are imaginary. The stories mostly function as a detective doing investigations, which seems prevalent in this subgenre.

Legion;Skin Deep;Lies of the Beholder
A camera may be able to take pictures of the past
DNA as data storage and people as biological computers
Self-Apocalypse

4.5 overall maybe, but I'm rounding down to 4 in this case though I usually round up. Perhaps I ought to round down more often or change those I've previously rated.

TL;DR: A fun urban science fantasy