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The Shape of Water meets Mexican Gothic in this sapphic monster romance novella wrapped in gothic fantasy trappings
The old …
Tuniriam lebt auf IZ211, einem großen Weltraumhabitat, wie es im Sonnensystem Tausende gibt. Seit einigen Jahren leidet sier an einer …
Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before …
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Pretty good, sweaty smut. A witch tries to summon Santa and summons Satan by mistake. It’s okay, though, because Satan and Santa are homies. Horny, bisexual, kinky homies.
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Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - …
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.
I loved Jonah's Gourd Vine -- thought some of her short stories very fine -- and feel that this measures …
Angriffe auf Geflüchtete nehmen zu, die AfD plant massive Abschiebungen und neonazistische Positionen sind vielerorts »normal« geworden. Staatliche Behörden, die …
Gad Beck, a half-Jewish German, managed to evade the Nazis and live illegally, underground, in Berlin throughout the duration of …
Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Though she might well have weathered …
Vor einigen Jahren ist in der radikalen Linken in Deutschland eine Strategiedebatte darüber entbrannt, wie …
Was die Aktivist*innen machen ist voll interessant, aber die haben so eine fürchterliche Funktionärssprache, baaaah. Ich würde gar nicht mit denen klarkommen und ich ertrag es auch kaum das zu lesen :D
In die Sklaverei geboren, wurde sie zur berühmtesten Schwarzen Anarchistin ihrer Zeit: Lucy Parsons (1851–1942) war Wortführerin der US-Arbeiter*innenbewegung und …
