A being of word given flesh who loves rats, trees, and escaping the hellworld of ecocidal capitalism in which she lives - when she's not plotting its decimation and replacement.
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Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin. Give them weapons, carnivorous tattoos, …
A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not the start of a joke, …
A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not the start of a joke, …
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological …
pretty white and institutional but otherwise it's fine ig
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of …
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of …
Midway through her career, Le Guin embarked on one of her most detailed, impressive literary …
Two words: holy fuck.
Midway through her career, Le Guin embarked on one of her most detailed, impressive literary projects, a novel that took …
Midway through her career, Le Guin embarked on one of her most detailed, impressive literary projects, a novel that took …
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet …
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet …
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It's rare that I read poetry, but yesterday I stumbled across Grolier Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I popped in and had a look around, and I picked up and read a bit from this book. It blew me away; I bought it; and this morning I read it cover-to-cover.
Wow.
It manages to capture the ephemeral eternity of love with the knowledge that it will end in a beautiful, consuming, compelling narrative framed as night-time wondering while a lover sleeps.
It's transcendent.
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, …
I was pretty frustrated by some early sociopolitical commentary in this book, particularly along racial lines, but that lessened immensely after a couple chapters. It's still dripping with imperial core pretention and high academic elitism. Still, the story has some fun beats, the setting - when it stops being imminently self-congratulatory and Liberal - raises some interesting questions, and the analysis of weaknesses in electoral democracy demonstrates a material experience and theoretical familiarity that would be expected of a storyteller with the author's background. The story really picks up about halfway through; until then it's a bit of a slog. All in all, I wouldn't advise buying the book, but if you have access to it and no compelling reads besides, you could do much worse.
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of …
From time to time, humanity is gifted the formation of a writer of such unimaginable capability and spirit that their work may reorient our past and reshape our future. Science fiction has had no shortage of such writers: Verne, Asimov, Le Guin, to name only a few — and now Tesh.
While this is her debut novel, it is obvious that Emily Tesh has refined her craft for much longer than the writing of one novel. This book is a finely-wrought masterwork with the precision and efficiency of Traviss, the soul and insight of Le Guin, and a creativity and compassion all her own. I cannot wait to delve into her prior work and to see what she creates next.
Heed the content warning at the beginning of this book, though it's not as bad as it could be. But if you have any interest in antifascist military sci-fi, in …
From time to time, humanity is gifted the formation of a writer of such unimaginable capability and spirit that their work may reorient our past and reshape our future. Science fiction has had no shortage of such writers: Verne, Asimov, Le Guin, to name only a few — and now Tesh.
While this is her debut novel, it is obvious that Emily Tesh has refined her craft for much longer than the writing of one novel. This book is a finely-wrought masterwork with the precision and efficiency of Traviss, the soul and insight of Le Guin, and a creativity and compassion all her own. I cannot wait to delve into her prior work and to see what she creates next.
Heed the content warning at the beginning of this book, though it's not as bad as it could be. But if you have any interest in antifascist military sci-fi, in what it means to fight injustice in a hopeless world, or just a good damn book, give it a read.
And if, by some twist of fate, Emily Tesh ever reads this review: thank you. I didn't even realize there was still a Gaea inside me, and now I know what to do about it.