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Susanna Clarke's Piranesi meets Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler in this …
Esi is turning into water. This is the only way Jinn knows how to describe it— like they are all floating on a lake that was once a pond and that will grow into a sea. Like nothing knows how to be solid anymore.
I definitely feel this one
Susanna Clarke's Piranesi meets Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler in this …
The first time I realize my sister wants to leave, we are in the White World.
Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether …
The Gilded Ones is a fantasy epic set in a Handmaid's Tale esque dystopia where women and girls are subject to strict social rules, on pain of physical punishment and death.
The tone is very YA, although the subject matter is full of graphic violence and (thankfully nongraphic) rape.
The setting is interesting, but the plot is kind of nonsensical and the author goes hard on the chosen one trope.
The Gilded Ones is a fantasy epic set in a Handmaid's Tale esque dystopia where women and girls are subject to strict social rules, on pain of physical punishment and death.
The tone is very YA, although the subject matter is full of graphic violence and (thankfully nongraphic) rape.
The setting is interesting, but the plot is kind of nonsensical and the author goes hard on the chosen one trope.
Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether …
Today is the Ritual of Purity.
— The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna (The Gilded Ones, #1)
She might win the throne. She might destroy an empire. Either way, it begins with …
I thought The Raven Scholar was refreshing and original.
It has some familiar tropes (the unappreciated, hypercompetent loner; multiple factions competing in a deadly tournament), but does a great job of avoiding cliches and subverting expectations.
There were a couple of places I was annoyed by the narration seeming to jump between character-limited and omniscient, but this is a minor quibble.
Despite apparently being the opener of a trilogy, it does a good job of telling a complete story and wrapping up the first phase of events.
She might win the throne. She might destroy an empire. Either way, it begins with …
There were many things Neema might do, in an emergency. Stealing from a library was not one of them.
She might win the throne. She might destroy an empire. Either way, it begins with …
“Sorry,” she said to the book, and pressed the torn segments together.
She might win the throne. She might destroy an empire. Either way, it begins with …
Once they made sacrifices here, to appease the Eight.
From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella …
Automatic Noodle was short and flavorful.
The story of a group of sentient robots who start a noodle restaurant after California secedes from the US, it's primarily about autonomy, identity, and chosen family.
Automatic Noodle was short and flavorful.
The story of a group of sentient robots who start a noodle restaurant after California secedes from the US, it's primarily about autonomy, identity, and chosen family.
From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella …
Still, humans were humans. They wanted you to know their opinions about your body, even if you hadn’t asked.
From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella …
Thanks. I really don’t want to get sent back to America. Fuck that place. It’s a hellhole run by garbage cans.
When I was a kid, I had an old copy of The Three Musketeers, an english translation, and it was loaded with verbose, repetitive phrases that didn't really add any meaning. Kid Me decided that this was just how old-timey people talked (and wrote). Later I read a french edition and decided that the translation I had gotten was just overly literal. Now, having read "The description of a new world, called the Blazing-World, and other writings", I'm back to thinking that Kid Me had the right of it.
I read this because it was proposed as potentially the first science fiction novel, and while it's kind of interesting in a historic and linguistic way, it falls pretty solidly in the "I read this so you don't have to" category. In modern terms, I'd file it under fantasy - a noblewoman gets kidnapped and then isekai'd to another world, …
When I was a kid, I had an old copy of The Three Musketeers, an english translation, and it was loaded with verbose, repetitive phrases that didn't really add any meaning. Kid Me decided that this was just how old-timey people talked (and wrote). Later I read a french edition and decided that the translation I had gotten was just overly literal. Now, having read "The description of a new world, called the Blazing-World, and other writings", I'm back to thinking that Kid Me had the right of it.
I read this because it was proposed as potentially the first science fiction novel, and while it's kind of interesting in a historic and linguistic way, it falls pretty solidly in the "I read this so you don't have to" category. In modern terms, I'd file it under fantasy - a noblewoman gets kidnapped and then isekai'd to another world, of which she immediately becomes empress. She spends about half the book grilling her new followers, various types of anthropomorphic animals, about how things work on their world, and they reply with reams of pseudoscientific waffle. She also becomes "Platonic Lovers" with the literal soul of the author. It is nonsensical, extremely verbose, and rambling.
and truly their meeting did produce such an intimate friendship between them, that they became Platonick Lovers, although they were both Femals.
— The description of a new world, called the blazing world and other writings by Margaret Cavendish
I'm kind of fascinated by some of the linguistic differences - for example, she repeatedly uses "onely" for "only", and also "several" to mean separate or distinct (as in "on three several occasions I saw…")
I'm kind of fascinated by some of the linguistic differences - for example, she repeatedly uses "onely" for "only", and also "several" to mean separate or distinct (as in "on three several occasions I saw…")
But said the Empress, there is some likeness between Maggots and Cheese; for Cheese has no blood, nor Maggots neither; besides, they have almost the same taste which Cheese has.
— The description of a new world, called the blazing world and other writings by Margaret Cavendish
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