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Becky Chambers: The long way to a small, angry planet (Paperback, 2015, Hodder & Stoughton)

When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, …

i really really like this book is so imaginative and it questions so many things we take for granted. but so far it hasn't even once questioned capitalism. and it is implied that everybody believes the earth became uninhabitable was because of human overpopulation... yuck!

the thing that tells us becky chambers did not forget, but decided not to write about other forms of living together, is that the ansible is commonly used for communication.

Becky Chambers: The long way to a small, angry planet (Paperback, 2015, Hodder & Stoughton)

When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, …

I really like the social structure of the Aandrisk, a reptilian sapient species.

Throughout their lifespan, they have a hatch family, a feather family, and a house family.

The hatch family raises the young. When the young are old enough, they leave the hatch family and join a feather family. The feather family consists of lovers and friends. In later life they join a house family and take in hatchlings.

“I’ll never understand how the rest of you expect brand new adults to be able to teach kids how to be people”

Isabelle Fremeaux, Jay Jordan: We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself (Paperback, 2021, Pluto Press)

In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan …

inspiring

the foreword was, to me, just a collection of buzzwords and had no real meaning, but the main body of the book was really nice. it gave me ideas of why the zad was able to win, not only in the physical space but maybe also on the way of developing other imaginaries that can help us leave capitalism, patriarchy and white supremacy behind. I loved the focus on ceremony. especially worthwhile for people trying to defend forest and village occupations e.g. #LütziBleibt