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Um... What happened last night? Ella wakes on the morning after a house party at …
I forgot to mark this as finished! It's really good! If you liked Roaming, I'd recommend this
I forgot to mark this as finished! It's really good! If you liked Roaming, I'd recommend this
The revolution will be green, growing, and non-motorized When you plant the seeds of bicycle …
They kinda sniped me with that subject. Book made specifically to get me
is this the first time im reading a solarpunk book on books.solarpunk.moe?
They kinda sniped me with that subject. Book made specifically to get me
is this the first time im reading a solarpunk book on books.solarpunk.moe?
Award-winning author Ken Liu returns with his first scifi thriller in a brand-new series following …
This didn't really connect with me, to be honest. I often found that the rules and tools that characters resolved challenges with felt unclear, or they'd resolve a puzzle / clue in a way that just didn't feel right. It ends up with the characters not really feeling as clever as the book wants you to believe that they are. Basically I had trouble keeping up keyfabe.
It's also a little hard to avoid the fact that the author is really really insistent that the AI that all the characters make use of (and which the main character specializes in) is a direct descendant of LLMs. Repeatedly. And in ways you can't really ignore. But also rarely actually addresses what the consequences of this might look like in any manor other than offhand.
There's definitely still some good parts, and several scenes really are clever, but I just …
This didn't really connect with me, to be honest. I often found that the rules and tools that characters resolved challenges with felt unclear, or they'd resolve a puzzle / clue in a way that just didn't feel right. It ends up with the characters not really feeling as clever as the book wants you to believe that they are. Basically I had trouble keeping up keyfabe.
It's also a little hard to avoid the fact that the author is really really insistent that the AI that all the characters make use of (and which the main character specializes in) is a direct descendant of LLMs. Repeatedly. And in ways you can't really ignore. But also rarely actually addresses what the consequences of this might look like in any manor other than offhand.
There's definitely still some good parts, and several scenes really are clever, but I just don't think it resounded with me.
Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the …
Good!
Award-winning author Ken Liu returns with his first scifi thriller in a brand-new series following …
By recommendation of a trusted friend
From World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri comes The Isle in the Silver Sea, a …
By the strong recommendation of @sashanoraa
To cope with rising misogynist violence, the US government offered people a golden opportunity: any …
I went into this expecting goofy comedy dunking on incels (and was looking forward to it), but was delighted to find fleshed out characters and nuance?? and also goofy comedy dunking on incels.
Recommended for almost anybody tbh. It's a short novel and it's engaging right from the start. A delightful experience.
I went into this expecting goofy comedy dunking on incels (and was looking forward to it), but was delighted to find fleshed out characters and nuance?? and also goofy comedy dunking on incels.
Recommended for almost anybody tbh. It's a short novel and it's engaging right from the start. A delightful experience.
Severely trope-y, but cute sometimes
It's Samhain and Danielle and her friends are laying low in the wilderness of Idaho, …
I cried a little,,
Short stories don't normally move me that much, but three for three these were touching, and the final story is really really moving.
I cried a little,,
Short stories don't normally move me that much, but three for three these were touching, and the final story is really really moving.
Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits traveling anarchist Danielle …
Mwah mwah mwah!! Keeps the energy from The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion going without faltering! Go read TLWStL right now, then read this if you like it!
Mwah mwah mwah!! Keeps the energy from The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion going without faltering! Go read TLWStL right now, then read this if you like it!
In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret …
Not as heart pounding as Gearbreakers nor as tearjerking as Pet, but still a really good YA novel! The world building and magic system are both excellent, and it's got Margaret Killjoy's signature commentaries on power, in a new light for its new form.
I'd recommend for anyone into YA fantasy, though probably not more broadly than that.
Not as heart pounding as Gearbreakers nor as tearjerking as Pet, but still a really good YA novel! The world building and magic system are both excellent, and it's got Margaret Killjoy's signature commentaries on power, in a new light for its new form.
I'd recommend for anyone into YA fantasy, though probably not more broadly than that.
Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, …
This is one of those books that's been hugely influential on modern leftist discourse, and you'll probably recognize a lot of its tenets if you read it. I think it's best treated as a 101 on reciprocity, the gift economy, animism, and indigenous worldviews.
If you do read this book, I strongly recommend AGAINST trying to read it cover-to-cover. Pick a couple chapters you think are interesting and read them. Read something else. If you liked it the first time around, come back and read a few more chapters.
A couple of chapters I liked: - Learning the Grammar of Animacy ― A really cool look on the embeding of animist worldviews into indigenous language - The Consolation of Water Lilies ― A little philosophically boring, but a very cool plant metaphor - Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass ― An excellent anecdote exploring the importance of braiding …
This is one of those books that's been hugely influential on modern leftist discourse, and you'll probably recognize a lot of its tenets if you read it. I think it's best treated as a 101 on reciprocity, the gift economy, animism, and indigenous worldviews.
If you do read this book, I strongly recommend AGAINST trying to read it cover-to-cover. Pick a couple chapters you think are interesting and read them. Read something else. If you liked it the first time around, come back and read a few more chapters.
A couple of chapters I liked: - Learning the Grammar of Animacy ― A really cool look on the embeding of animist worldviews into indigenous language - The Consolation of Water Lilies ― A little philosophically boring, but a very cool plant metaphor - Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass ― An excellent anecdote exploring the importance of braiding new worldviews and ways of knowing into science. Also an excellent primer on Kimmerer's philosophies of reciprocity - The Sacred and the Superfund ― Philosophies of relationship to land
We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead...
The shadow …
What it says on the tin, an angsty lesbian slow burn enemies to lovers mech story. The addition of the titular gearbreakers is definitely a really cool twist, and shines at a couple of different points, though it has the side effect of turning some of the mech combat to human-scale combat with nameless "guards" set inside the mech.
Still, it has some excellent action sequences, and it was engaging enough that I stayed up late to keep reading more chapters.
I might recommend it if you're into mech yuri, but keep in mind that it's meant for teen audiences, with all the tropes and caveats that come with that, including so much angst. A side effect of this that I appreciated is that it's a romance story that doesn't use the language of sex to communicate beats in the relationship, which can sometimes be hard to …
What it says on the tin, an angsty lesbian slow burn enemies to lovers mech story. The addition of the titular gearbreakers is definitely a really cool twist, and shines at a couple of different points, though it has the side effect of turning some of the mech combat to human-scale combat with nameless "guards" set inside the mech.
Still, it has some excellent action sequences, and it was engaging enough that I stayed up late to keep reading more chapters.
I might recommend it if you're into mech yuri, but keep in mind that it's meant for teen audiences, with all the tropes and caveats that come with that, including so much angst. A side effect of this that I appreciated is that it's a romance story that doesn't use the language of sex to communicate beats in the relationship, which can sometimes be hard to find.
We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead...
The shadow …
@sashanoraa that sounds cool as fuck. straight to the reading list
@sashanoraa that sounds cool as fuck. straight to the reading list
Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian …
This was good!! The kind of punk that's clearly grounded in lived experiences, made just magical enough to be able to discuss themes of power in a very cool way! It's a very short book, but engaging and worth it the whole way through.
Recommended for the other anarchist and punk organizers and activists in my life
This was good!! The kind of punk that's clearly grounded in lived experiences, made just magical enough to be able to discuss themes of power in a very cool way! It's a very short book, but engaging and worth it the whole way through.
Recommended for the other anarchist and punk organizers and activists in my life