Tak! quoted Library of Broken Worlds
Content warning library of broken worlds ~50%
You are a creature built from a dream, designed for deicide.
A real Abbott & Costello exchange
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Tak! quoted Library of Broken Worlds
“What did they make you forget?” “I’m not allowed to remember!”
Tak! quoted Library of Broken Worlds
“But they can’t reject queries on political grounds! That’s against the Treaty.” Aragonite just patted me on my shoulder.
"The government can't do that! It's illegal!"
"The government can't do that! It's illegal!"
Tak! quoted Library of Broken Worlds
“Most people don’t trouble themselves with philosophy, disciple,” Vaterite said. “It’s the degeneration of our modern age.”
Tak! quoted Library of Broken Worlds
Content warning library of broken worlds chapter 1
They didn’t understand that a creature like you, who had constructed such a fantasy of his ideal woman, wouldn’t even want a real one.
incels irl
enne📚 reviewed Luminous by Silvia Park
Luminous
4 stars
A messy but enjoyable book about robots, grief, and memory set in a post-war unified Korea.
The plot, pacing, and characters meandered a bit too much for my taste, but it was made up for by the texture in the world and its threads of philosophy. I do also love a story that is engaging with both disability and transness through the lens of robots and robotics.
enne📚 quoted Luminous by Silvia Park
The robot understands that how we love isn’t divine. It is meager, selfish, exquisitely cruel. Think of any time a war erupts—who among us would not sacrifice the lives of many to save the one person we love?
— Luminous by Silvia Park
Tak! reviewed Luminous by Silvia Park
5 stars
Luminous: 100/100
Luminous is a book about death, loss, and self-loathing, told via the universal medium of robots.
I love the way the connections between the lives of the different characters are gradually revealed as the story unfolds. I also really appreciate the complexity and depth of the characters, even when they seen stereotypical seen from one angle.
The author wrote in the acknowledgements that she started out to write a children's book and kind of got derailed by personal circumstances into this thing that is much darker and more complex, but I'm very glad she did, Luminous is extremely good.
Luminous: 100/100
Luminous is a book about death, loss, and self-loathing, told via the universal medium of robots.
I love the way the connections between the lives of the different characters are gradually revealed as the story unfolds. I also really appreciate the complexity and depth of the characters, even when they seen stereotypical seen from one angle.
The author wrote in the acknowledgements that she started out to write a children's book and kind of got derailed by personal circumstances into this thing that is much darker and more complex, but I'm very glad she did, Luminous is extremely good.
Tak! quoted Luminous by Silvia Park
PLEASE LEAVE YOUR ROBOTS OUTSIDE. ROBOTS, NOT HAVING A SOUL, ARE UNABLE TO WORSHIP GOD AND HAVE NO PLACE IN THE CHURCH.
— Luminous by Silvia Park
new instance rules
Tak! quoted Luminous by Silvia Park
You know Dad doesn’t do autocabs or auto-anything. And his driver’s license expired a gazillion years ago.
— Luminous by Silvia Park
this is going to be my kids talking about me
Tak! quoted Luminous by Silvia Park
When it was still active and nimble, it was a house of horrors from whose impenetrable womb wave after wave of bladed robots would emerge, whipping through the air, keen to slice and beep and blow.
— Luminous by Silvia Park
Tak! quoted Luminous by Silvia Park
That summer was immortal.
— Luminous by Silvia Park
enne📚 reviewed The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror …
The Bewitching
4 stars
This was on the #SFFBookClub poll but never got picked.
The Bewitching is three intertwined stories that all revolve around witchcraft. In 1998, struggling grad student Minerva is researching Beatrice Tremblay who wrote a novel the Vanishing roughly based on the disappearance of her friend Virginia. The second thread is that Minerva gets a chance to read Beatrice's journals, and so we hear Beatrice's perspective of mysterious and traumatic events of 1934. The final thread is Minerva's great-grandmother Alba who tells Minerva a story on her deathbed about events from her childhood in 1908.
At night the three of them talked on ICQ about meaningless and profound topics.
I am a sucker for parallel stories, but I especially love how rooted each of these different narratives are in highly specific times and places.
As a horror story, the pacing reminded me a lot of …
This was on the #SFFBookClub poll but never got picked.
The Bewitching is three intertwined stories that all revolve around witchcraft. In 1998, struggling grad student Minerva is researching Beatrice Tremblay who wrote a novel the Vanishing roughly based on the disappearance of her friend Virginia. The second thread is that Minerva gets a chance to read Beatrice's journals, and so we hear Beatrice's perspective of mysterious and traumatic events of 1934. The final thread is Minerva's great-grandmother Alba who tells Minerva a story on her deathbed about events from her childhood in 1908.
At night the three of them talked on ICQ about meaningless and profound topics.
I am a sucker for parallel stories, but I especially love how rooted each of these different narratives are in highly specific times and places.
As a horror story, the pacing reminded me a lot of her previous book Mexican Gothic. There's a slow foreshadowing of creeping horror where things are going slightly awry (or maybe it's coincidence). And then, very late, there is a mask off moment where it's explicit what is happening. Having three intertwined stories that each have their own arc of tension only makes this stronger.
Content warning the navigating fox plot discussion / spoilers
@Tak@gush.taks.garden Reading between the lines, my conclusions were: Quintus was (probably) made by Toosa who taught Quintus about the roads, since multiverse Toosa is there right at Quintus's first moments of self-consciousness. I think it's possible that Quintus was traveling the roads prior to meeting Toosa as well. Toosa also made Cynthia promise to save Quintus (which happens off-page, right?), which also makes me feel like Toosa was in the know about the future (which lines up with the old/young Toosa appearance earlier). Maybe I'd guess that the "why" of Quintus was something around sabotaging the resurrection plan to thwart the incursion of the empire somewhat? That's what I got.
Tak! commented on The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe
Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an …
Content warning the navigating fox plot discussion / spoilers
I respect that so many things were left ambiguous: Quintus's origin, what's happening with the Empress, how did Quintus and Cynthia's crew come to their understanding, etc. - but maybe some of them could have been resolved? just one?