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Barbarius@outside.ofa.dog

Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too.

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commented on System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells: System Collapse (EBook, 2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.

Everyone's favorite lethal …

I'm four chapters in and, I have to be honest, all this repeated "redacted" is getting quite annoying. The pay-off better be soon and/or worth it.

Mat Groom, Bear McCreary, David LaFluente, Simone Ragazzoni, Danilo Beyruth: The Singularity (GraphicNovel, 2023, Image Comics) No rating

How much loss can one soul endure?

Blue Eyes can't stop being reborn. He …

Interesting. Great plethora of artists and styles. It certainly didn't feel like a media tie-in; it had a story to tell and it told it independently and well. ...but now I wonder what the album's like?

commented on The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1)

Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem (Paperback, 2016, Head of Zeus)

1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. …

Wow... This Netflix series has been completely white-washed... How very disappointing...

commented on All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tordotcom)

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring …

You can tell that the author is American, as she abbreviates kilometres to "kilos", which to the rest of the metric world is the very common abbreviation for kilograms, not kilometres.

But, hey, good on her for realising that it would be the system of measurement used for interstellar humans.