trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Digital Degrowth by Michael Kwet
Heard a short bit about this on Future Tense podcast
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trochee@bookwyrm.social started reading Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
This is a SF novel embedded within a roman à clef about a SF novelist who resembles at some distance the author herself
But not exactly, all the way through. It's a rich text, and I'm only 10% through
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Black Software by Charlton McIlwain
Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the …
Recommended via @inquiline@assemblag.es and @natacha@s10y.eu
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
Read when discovered at a Little Free Library near my beach cabin.
A fluffy and delightful SF comedy.
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie
Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the …
Ah, dang I love these stories.
I get a kick out of the extended Radch stories with their heavily cliquey diplomatic politics
But I Just Can't Get Enough
of the Raven Tower universe, with its very specific rules about how gods work and live with humans. Some parts of the Raven Tower stories even feel a little bit like the old Asimov (I, Robot) or Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) stories, because they're an exploration of possible conduct under certain very confined rules of politics and promises.
Do Not Make Promises To Gods is clearly the best operating procedure, but gah it seems so interesting.
Want to hear more about the Auditors of Narendra, though.
trochee@bookwyrm.social started reading Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie
Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the …
Hooray libraries, and hooray Leckie.
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …
slow and meditative and almost entirely free of plot, even as Dex and Mosscap find their way through being famous in this Always Coming Home world
Nothing too surprising to me here but lots of good stories about how weird our minds are , especially in groups
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston
Took me a long time to get through this, but it's because the simultaneous stories of... probably fifteen different main characters, three of which are robots and two of which are dogs
At least one is a dimension-hopping alien and a veteran at the same time. It's a chewy, rich cast and there are no truly bad guys in it (well, maybe one).
A solarpunk triumph
trochee@bookwyrm.social started reading Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston
Libraries are the luxury space utopia we deserve
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem
Oh I never knew he'd written this entire masterpiece and it's available in English now!
Non fiction about magical thinking
Looking forward to this
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
Definitely a debut novel; feels sort of like a handbasket full of plots, mostly strung together
Feels like the missing volume in the middle of SEVENEVES, though, in a lot of ways that Stephenson could learn from (but won't)
trochee@bookwyrm.social started reading The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
I still believe that libraries are a flowering of a free republic. Thank you White Center KCLS
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death …
Another sweet romance book about broken paladins — this one gay. Full of darkly funny T. Kingfisher gnole humor that is very much reminiscent of DIGGER.
Like the other (straight) romances in this series, hot and sweet.