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Barbarius@outside.ofa.dog

Joined 2 years, 6 months ago

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

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32% complete! Barbarius has read 17 of 52 books.

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@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!

Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer: The Time Traveller's Almanac: The Ultimate Treasury of Time Travel Fiction - Brought to You from the Future (Paperback, Head of Zeus) No rating

"The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories …

Joe Madureira: Battle Chasers Anthology (2011, Image Comics)

Off to a great start

This was a great series. Brilliant world-building, engaging characters, interesting backstories. But the whole thing just kind of stops all of a sudden, with not many of the storylines are resolved. Which is a real shame.

This reason for this is that the creator transitioned into video game design (and created the Darksiders series), but as a result it left us with only the briefest of glimpses into this universe.

What brief glimpse you get is wonderful, and I'm glad I read it, but it mostly feels like just the start of what could have been a great series.