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tofuwabohu@wyrms.de

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German and English reading, commenting in the book's language

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Avatar is the planet Annarres from Ursula Le Guin's "The Dispossessed", drawn by Markus Weber

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Success! reading tofu has read 35 of 25 books.

Jasmin Schreiber: Im Schatten von Giganten (Hardcover, German language, 2025, Kosmos) No rating

Einige Käferarten gehen sogar noch weiter und produzieren Sekrete, die beispielsweise von Termiten gern aufgenommen werden. Diese "Bestechung" führt zu einer besonderen Beziehung, der sogenannten Trophobiose: Die Käfer werden von den Termiten gefüttert und geben im Gegenzug ein für die Termiten nützliches oder attraktives Sekret ab. Eine Win-win-Situation - zumindest auf den ersten Blick. Denn oft fressen die Käfer heimlich den Termitennachwuchs, was für die Termiten natürlich weniger vorteilhaft ist.

Im Schatten von Giganten by 

(Die Käfer leben im Termitenbau, wurde vorher erklärt)

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reviewed Freie Geister by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Universum-Reihe, #5)

Ursula K. Le Guin: Freie Geister (Paperback, German language, 2017)

Der große utopische Science-Fiction-Klassiker in kongenialer Neuübersetzung.

Ursula K. LeGuins ›Freie Geister‹ ist eine der …

Das realistische Utopia.

Content warning CW nicht einvernehmlicher Sex, Gender-Binarität

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A. E. Marling: Missing Mermaid (EBook, A. E. Marling)

A woman gave up her legs to become a mermaid, surgically. Then she goes missing. …

What is Solarpunk?

[...]

To be clear, cryptocurrency is not Solarpunk. Crypto will worsen the current inequalities by centralizing power in the hands of the rich, while wasting energy. You can fuck right off with that world burning Ponzi scheme.

Missing Mermaid by 

The story didn't even start and I already like it. Shoutout to the author @AEMarling@slrpnk.net

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Ryka Aoki: Light From Uncommon Stars (Hardcover, 2021, Tor Books)

Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …

A one of a kind book

This book had a unique feel to it, something like enthralling and enchanting. It brings together a number of strange characters and strange elements (the aliens who struggle with human concepts, an evil woman who delivers souls to hell but turns out to be nice, the nerding out about violins and certain music pieces) and that shouldn't work at all but it does. It's also cozy and affirming, at least most of the time. Unfortunately, the other 10% of the book are really quite grim. There's a lot of vicious anti-trans hate (a bit too much, in my opinion) by others against Katrina and there's also a rape scene and sexual harassment. The last one doesn't really get adressed. So, I can't recommend it unreservedly but still recommend it with those caveats.