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Barbarius started reading When He Calls Your Name by Catherynne M. Valente
Barbarius finished reading The Millay Illusion by Sarah Pinsker
Barbarius started reading The Millay Illusion by Sarah Pinsker
Barbarius finished reading The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For by Cameron Reed
In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to …
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Barbarius finished reading Kaiju Agonistes by Scott Lynch
Barbarius quoted Kaiju Agonistes by Scott Lynch
It has a stage magician's sense of timing; its creators have imbued it with razzle-dazzle from beyond the stars.
— Kaiju Agonistes by Scott Lynch (Page 16)
Barbarius started reading Kaiju Agonistes by Scott Lynch
Barbarius rated Never Eaten Vegetables: 4 stars
H. H. Pak: Never Eaten Vegetables (EBook)
Never Eaten Vegetables by H. H. Pak
Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue #220
Barbarius finished reading Never Eaten Vegetables by H. H. Pak
Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue #220
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Barbarius wants to read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. …
Barbarius reviewed The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers by Kieron Gillen (The Power Fantasy, #1)
It’s 1999. Six indescribably powerful people each have the destructive capability of America’s nuclear arsenal.
…If mutually assured destruction were people
4 stars
I had no idea what this was about when I started reading this, but I really enjoyed it.
It's probably easiest to consider the idea of mutually assured destruction: the idea that because a bunch of countries have nukes and could destroy each other, so therefore no one uses nukes. This only exists however due to a delicate balance that needs to be maintained constantly. Now imagine that that destructive power resides in people. People, with all their emotions, flaws, ego, and issues... And still that delicate balance needs to be maintained... along with all their emotions, flaws, ego, and issues...
So then, who gets to make the rules and maintain the balance?
I had no idea what this was about when I started reading this, but I really enjoyed it.
It's probably easiest to consider the idea of mutually assured destruction: the idea that because a bunch of countries have nukes and could destroy each other, so therefore no one uses nukes. This only exists however due to a delicate balance that needs to be maintained constantly. Now imagine that that destructive power resides in people. People, with all their emotions, flaws, ego, and issues... And still that delicate balance needs to be maintained... along with all their emotions, flaws, ego, and issues...
So then, who gets to make the rules and maintain the balance?
Barbarius finished reading The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers by Kieron Gillen (The Power Fantasy, #1)
It’s 1999. Six indescribably powerful people each have the destructive capability of America’s nuclear arsenal.
…OOhh, that was really good!
Barbarius started reading The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers by Kieron Gillen (The Power Fantasy, #1)
It’s 1999. Six indescribably powerful people each have the destructive capability of America’s nuclear arsenal.
…Barbarius commented on A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin's timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea reimagined for the first …