I've been trying to listen to this as an audiobook but it's too complex, I don't know most of the ideas and so I'd need to read at a much slower pace than the audiobook is narrated. Stopping and trying again in print-form another time...
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reading crustacean rated Ancillary Justice: 5 stars

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she was …
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reading crustacean commented on The long way to a small, angry planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #1)
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.
reading crustacean commented on The long way to a small, angry planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #1)
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”
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inspiring
4 stars
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