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Die verdrängte Pandemie (Paperback, German language, 2025, Unrast Verlag)
Trailor Sparks: Das Wort für Zuhause ist Feuer (Paperback, German language, Paranoia City Verlag)
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Löwen wecken (Paperback, German language, 2015, Kein und Aber)

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Alice Hasters: Identitätskrise (Hardcover, hanserblau)
Lia Becker, Katharina Pühl, Atlanta Ina Beyer: Bite back! (deutsch language, edition assemblage)
Eleonora Roldán Mendívil, Bafta Sarbo: Die Diversität der Ausbeutung (Hardcover, Deutsch language, 2022, Dietz Verlag Berlin GmbH)

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Arne Semsrott: Machtübernahme (Hardcover, Deutsch language, Droemer/Knaur)
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Telling (Hainish Cycle #8)
Micaiah Johnson: The Space Between Worlds (EBook, 2020, Hodder & Stoughton)

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85% complete! reading crustacean has read 30 of 35 books.

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quoted A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)

Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Hardcover, 2021, Tordotcom)

It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …

“You don’t, if you believe that. You’re an animal, Sibling Dex. You are not separate or other. You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do things that are meaningful to others, fine! Good! So do I! But if I wanted to crawl into a cave and watch stalagmites with Frostfrog for the remainder of my days, that would also be both fine and good. You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live. That is all most animals do.”

— A Psalm for the Wild-Built by  (Monk and Robot, #1) (91%)

agender person and robot discussing about the absence of a purpose of life

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reviewed A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit (2017)

Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - …

I Cried

The dual stories, told in short, impactful chapters is such a powerful mechanism, and Becky Chambers wields it perfectly.

Both stories are riveting for their own, very different reasons. But both have to do with social justice, and personhood denied.

I found myself getting to the end of one chapter and being oh but I want to stay with this character! only to get embroiled in the other character's chapter immediately.

It's like an anti-cliffhanger. Rather than leaving you hanging, it pulls you in to the next segment, and then pulls you right back into the following.

If you liked The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - the previous entry by Becky Chambers, then I can super-recommend this.