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Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and …
digging this a lot. sometimes in a "i don't know what take this is even going for?"-way
often in an "octopods are freaking cool"-way
as sci-fi goes, plenty of interesting perspectives and ideas and parallels getting thrown your way, liking the structure as well
Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves …
looking fwd to this!
slowly re-reading a favourite, which feels oddly cosy given the uhhh source material
In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel …
A standalone novel in the fantastic world of Katherine Addison's award-winning The Goblin Emperor.
When …
this is so good, addison's a fantastic writer eh?
Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet
It …
slowly starting this in jet-lag comedown mode (typically pass out within 3 sentences X)
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …
As the title says: queer solarpunk first-contact sci-fi!
Recommended for anyone that liked:
It definitely has some weird bits, not necessarily in a negative sense. I enjoyed this a bunch and kept telling people about during my travels in the past weeks—so that's probably a better recommendation indicator than anything!
The author even coined a potential subgenre in describing the book: diaperpunk!
In this alternative version of J.K. Rowling's famous tale, Petunia Evans marries the biochemist Michael …
had this recommended—not sure if i'll read or not! opinions really very welcome
“You are the next step in human evolution.”
At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if …
started reading yesterday while camping out an airport for an early flight
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife …
it gets better approximately 30% (100 pages) in—i feel inclined to make the controversial suggestion that some readers could skip right there and have a more enjoyable experience by puzzling together some of what had already happened
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife …
started reading this yesterday. the prose isn't great and it's written like the author anticipates it being picked up for a movie
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON made its first appearance as a short story which was rapidly and …
Goodness gracious. So many themes are touched on in this book, and I think I'll be haunted for some time to come by the ideas raised.
I'm a sucker for both an epistolary-style novel (which this classifies as, given the diary format) and the bildungsroman genre which I can also see reflected in the type of story it is, albeit not perfectly—so if either of those butter your biscuits well dangit bring out the tea cause these biscuits are ready to be eaten, buttered and all!!
Recommended read for many reasons, and not only because it's hard to let go of once started.
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal …
started on this proper yesterday while seeking shelter from the heat in my hammock in the park!
For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as …
Oh, tree! Eat the fish!
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing …
so
good