Aneel finished reading Babel : Or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang
Babel : Or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort …
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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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From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort …
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I was worried that it was going to lean YA after the main characters returned to Oxford, but it pulled no punches.
Are there really only a handful of professors in Oxford colleges?
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort …
Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities — handling …
Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities — handling …
Content warning Reveals my takeaway
Masterfully constructed, like Cloud Atlas or Use of Weapons. Utterly willing to kill off characters just as they're getting interesting (I put the book down after it killed one off just a handful of pages after she was introduced, but picked it up again).
After reading How Infrastructure Works, which has the message "We have the tools we need to build sustainable infrastructure for everyone", this book seemed to reply "Yeah, but we won't", but also "But that's okay. We're not so special. Life will go on after we kill ourselves as part of the Sixth Extinction."
Will there be another race
To come along and take over for us?
Maybe martians could do better than we've done.
We'll make great pets!
My friend says we're like the dinosaurs
Only we are doing ourselves in
Much faster than they
Ever did.
We'll make great pets!
— Porno For Pyros, Pets
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us
Infrastructure …