Barbarius started reading Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella …
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Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too.
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Barbarius commented on Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story (original German title: Glennkill: Ein Schafskrimi) is 2005 …
Amateur hour over here...
I waited to long to try and reserve this from the library, and now there's a movie out and the reserve list is insanely long 😩
I have only myself to blame...
Amateur hour over here...
I waited to long to try and reserve this from the library, and now there's a movie out and the reserve list is insanely long 😩
I have only myself to blame...
Barbarius started reading When He Calls Your Name by Catherynne M. Valente
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 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 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 …
Barbarius finished reading The Space Cat by Nnedi Okorafor
Life for a cat doesn’t get much better than Periwinkle’s. By day, his loving humans …
Barbarius reviewed The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo
Everyone in the neighborhood was getting ready for the party. Everyone knew somebody on the …
Wonderful
5 stars
The Invisible Parade is a truly beautiful picture book about Día de Muertos and a little girl grieving her recently passed grandfather. The artwork is phenomenally beautiful and touching, and the story provides a message of hope and humanity.
Barbarius finished reading The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo
Everyone in the neighborhood was getting ready for the party. Everyone knew somebody on the …
Oh wow... That was very good. And now I'm emotional.
Oh wow... That was very good. And now I'm emotional.