Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too.
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34% complete! Barbarius has read 18 of 52 books.
The soft crash of waves that blissfully block out all other noise, the smell of …
Just rediscovered this on my desk. It was a gift from a friend that I had, truth be told, forgotten about entirely. Turns out procrastinating can really pay off!
Just rediscovered this on my desk. It was a gift from a friend that I had, truth be told, forgotten about entirely. Turns out procrastinating can really pay off!
This special and important photography book presents, for the first time, the very best contact sheets created by Magnum photographers. …
This special and important photography book presents, for the first time, the very best contact …
Well, that took me a long time, but it was thoroughly enjoyable to go back to every so often over two years.
In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new …
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
After leaving the life of a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger behind, Kimberly Hart finds herself pulled back into the fray. …
After leaving the life of a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger behind, Kimberly Hart finds herself pulled back into the fray. …
After leaving the life of a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger behind, Kimberly Hart finds herself …
I've never read a Power Rangers comic, but this one looks really interesting.
I've never read a Power Rangers comic, but this one looks really interesting.
@picklish@books.theunseen.city oh me too. I love a good SciFi AI, and I'm aware of the "AI" as a marketing term for LLMs, but I guess I was just surprised at my own sudden-and-now-different reaction.
When I thought about it longer, I even realised that I didn't think about it the same way with recent reads, such as ART in the Murderbot series.
What a time to be alive!
@picklish@books.theunseen.city oh me too. I love a good SciFi AI, and I'm aware of the "AI" as a marketing term for LLMs, but I guess I was just surprised at my own sudden-and-now-different reaction.
When I thought about it longer, I even realised that I didn't think about it the same way with recent reads, such as ART in the Murderbot series.
What a time to be alive!
@picklish@books.theunseen.city the anthropomorphisation of AI seems weird in a book published in 2026...
"The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories …
...a toy fish-tank (capable of firing real fish)...
— The Time Traveller's Almanac: The Ultimate Treasury of Time Travel Fiction - Brought to You from the Future by Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer (Page 93)
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"The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one …
Brilliant tells the story of a handful of college-age geniuses who challenge each other to …
Urgh, again with the stories that start and then just stop with no resolution...
