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Aneel

aneel@outside.ofa.dog

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He/Him. In the USA... for now. Mastodon

I only track books that I read for pleasure, mostly SF/Fantasy. I've fallen out of the habit of actually writing reviews beyond giving a star rating. It would be nice to get back into that habit.

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R.F. Kuang: Babel : Or the Necessity of Violence (Hardcover, 2022, Harper Voyager)

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret …

Nice use of Chekhov's Gun

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Guillermo Martínez: The Oxford Brotherhood (2019)

Depressing, compelling, uplifting

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Deb Chachra: How Infrastructure Works (2023, Penguin Publishing Group)

A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, …

Paints a somewhat hopeful picture. After an examination of what "Infrastructure" means, it argues that we already have the tools we need for sustainable infrastructure, we just need to use them.

reviewed Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (The Founders Trilogy Book 1)

Robert Jackson Bennett: Foundryside (2018, Jo Fletcher Books)

Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a …

Fun adventure

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