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Cordillera

Cordillera@wyrms.de

Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

linktr.ee/cordillera.goes Manila-based weirdo. Needs to read less AO3 and read more books. Loves science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Enemy of the Save the Cat plot structure.

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commented on The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber (Paperback, 1990, Penguin Books) No rating

Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey …

I read four #books at a time and take forever to finish one because the internet broke my brain. Anyway the one I'm closest to finishing atm is Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. Extremely horny and creepy takes on folk tales, generally treated as literary fiction and not genre #fantasy, but I dgaf, it rules hard. It has the kind of rich prose you don't see in much contemporary fiction anymore. Gothic vibes to the max.

reviewed Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) (2017) 3 stars

All politics and science, zero vibes or character. Still important. Fuck Elon Musk.

4 stars

Prose could have more vibes & it dragged in some parts but it's a must read about how Mars colonization is going to solve jack shit and develops a global capitalist resource extraction hellfest.

Includes migration politics, migrants going off grid to escape their shitty companies, new ways of warfare like destroying domed cities by increasing oxygen levels and setting the air on fire, new levels of geological terror only it's not "state" terror. Instead it's space UN working on the behalf of the interest of giant companies benefiting from mining the shit out of Mars as Earth destroys itself with continuous warfare. Yeah this tracks.

finished reading Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) (2017) 3 stars

Prose could have more vibes & it dragged in some parts but it's a must read about how Mars colonization is going to solve jack shit and develops a global capitalist resource extraction hellfest.

Includes migration politics, migrants going off grid to escape their shitty companies, new ways of warfare like destroying domed cities by increasing oxygen levels and setting the air on fire, new levels of geological terror only it's not "state" terror

Instead it's space UN working on the behalf of the interest of giant companies benefiting from mining the shit out of Mars as Earth destroys itself with continuous warfare. Yeah this tracks.

finished reading The twenty days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria

Giorgio De Maria: The twenty days of Turin (2017) 5 stars

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a …

Unsettling cosmic horror that feels uniquely online despite being written in the 70s

1970s cosmic horror about a creepy Italian town. Has a library that predicted the insanity of the internet, self-censorship and social atomization leading to insomnia, weirdo correspondences, and fascism.

Maybe a whack comparison, but imagine The Plague by Camus but make it good sicko shit.

reviewed The twenty days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria

Giorgio De Maria: The twenty days of Turin (2017) 5 stars

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a …

Unsettling cosmic horror that feels uniquely online despite being written in the 70s

5 stars

1970s cosmic horror about a creepy Italian town. Has a library that predicted the insanity of the internet, self-censorship and social atomization leading to insomnia, weirdo correspondences, and fascism.

Maybe a whack comparison, but imagine The Plague by Camus but make it good sicko shit.