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Barbarius@outside.ofa.dog

Joined 2 years, 8 months ago

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

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2026 Reading Goal

57% complete! Barbarius has read 30 of 52 books.

Sara Haddad, Baraa Awoor: The Sunbird (Paperback, University of Queensland Press)

Adapted for young readers from her critically acclaimed adult novel, Sara Haddad's middle-grade story about …

I stopped reading this at bedtime, as I felt like my kids might still have been on the young side (and, TBH, there's enough exposure in daily news already to the horrors of how some humans treat others). But this is truly excellent; a great reimagining of the original.

started reading Scorcher by Tim Ross

Tim Ross: Scorcher (Paperback, Modernister Books) No rating

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!

replied to enne📚's status

@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 …