Reviews and Comments

Mostly enjoyed this, the book is getting quite cozy over time.

The bots are interesting, I especially liked Staybehind's ambitions in interior design and how Robles got into the gang.

Below stuff sounds rather negative but isn't as bothersome:

Technical stuff was very 2020, not sure if people will still be identified via their IP address on 2063, but that didn't affect the story. The group chat element was cool.

Am a bit annoyed how this book greatly contemplates the rights of sentient robots and even their perception of "dumb" robots, but repeatedly mentions animals (lambs) exclusively as a source for food without any consideration regarding their life circumstances. This or similar blind spots has been bothering me in several progressive books now.

Also there was a Graeber reference (chapter called "Debt: The first 5000 seconds"). Not that I read that book but still nice to spot. Maybe there's more that I missed.

Gute Übersicht darüber, was die AFD an welcher Stelle schon tut oder tun kann, wenn sie in die Regierung kommt und auch, wie sie da aufgehalten werden kann.

Es geht auch viel um die CDU, welche bereits viel Arbeit für die AFD erledigt und deren Positionen übernimmt. Das Buch ist jetzt zwei Jahre alt und vieles, was hier prophezeit wurde, wurde bereits umgesetzt - von der CDU.

Gibt auch einiges an Einordnung, wo und warum die Presse die AFD so hofiert, wie sie es tut und warum der öffentliche Diskurs so mies ist. (Spoiler: viel Angst davor, bei einer AFD Regierung benachteiligt zu werden).

Bisschen repetitiv, aber durch die kurzen Kapitel leicht zu lesen. Dadurch wird nicht jedes Thema in Tiefe behandelt, aber das würde wohl auch den Rahmen sprengen.

Als vermeintlicher Widerspruch taucht "wir können uns auf den Staat nicht verlassen" neben diversen Forderungen an den Staat auf, aber es wird auch benannt, dass wir auf deren Erfüllung eben nicht warten können/dürfen und dass wir eben mit dem arbeiten müssen, was wir haben.

The intro really got to me: the author mentioned a lack of utopian anarchist imagery and asked people to send them positive art incorporating the circle A. I've been looking for this as well, I enjoy the occasional burning cop car, bolt cutter and black bloc art as much as "everyone else", but anarchism has so much more to offer and there's not enough of it.

People created and sent those images and they are published in this book, along with the artist, a quote of theirs, and a short accompanying text by the author. I really like the art and hope that more of it will make it's way out of this book into the world.

The texts also focus on beautiful aspects of anarchism - not the utopian society we are working towards, but delightful aspects of common anarchist praxis. Most of it was put very well, some mentioned some interesting ideas to follow, but some also felt a bit iterative, especially with the examples that were provided.

Not super convinced from the blurb, but it's Margaret Killjoy and I got it cheap with her other book so let's go

This one is quite different from it's predecessors. The anarchist demon hunters lie low and are telling each other stories of different kinds of magic. It even has some drawn images!

It's basically three prequels woven into a story. I wanted to know more about the other magicians from the first book anyways, especially Rebecca, so this was quite the right book for me. The stories and the discussion of "real" magic and magic magic (nor sure how to put it better) were quite nice.

This is a bit of a "default" Murderbot story, where some of the last books had a way more confusing storyline. (It's also a bit of a repetition (threatening murderbots' humans to get it to rescue other humans)). The outline of what's supposed to happen is known quite early and murderbot is doing murderbot things the murderbot way, as we all love it. The interactions with humans were exquisite, probably even better than in the last books. Often funny, pretty emotional this book, generally good. Murderbot hating that torus this book is set in becomes a running gag but isn't overdone.

Some characters I liked a lot were returning and played roles with different levels of satisfaction (RIP). Also some interesting new(ish) characters. I want to see more of Naya!

Murderbot has a new module doing emotional checks which had some moments but didn't do so much for me in general. Though it's been accompanied by some more of it's thoughts about it's mental health which I liked.

Just noticed this was the 100th book I finished and tracked on wyrms.de! 🎉

I still love this thing. I'm getting almost all my recommendations on bookwyrm. Running this instance feels pretty rewarding.

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Almost missed there's a new murderbot!

This was even better. The characters got developed further, new insights into the whole magic thing including witchfire and some more.

So fast paced it's almost stressful, but there's still time for contemplations and a little romance.