Tak! a commenté The Water Knife par Paolo Bacigalupi
In a future hammered by climate change and drought, mountain snows have turned to rain, …
There has never been a better time to read The Water Knife
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Tak! a commenté The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses par Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #3)
When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin—who’s up for …
I love the variety of loanwords from different settings, and it seems even more ramped up in this installment, but I have to wonder how comprehensible it is to more monolingual folks
Tak! a publié une critique de The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles par Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to …
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
4 étoiles
A solid followup to The Mimicking of Known Successes. Reading these gives me the same feeling as reading a Witness for the Dead.
I like that Pleiti had a little more independent role in this one, so she's on more of an equal footing with Mossa and isn't just Lesbian Watson in Space. (Lesbian Watson in Space is fine as a concept, but I feel like this series has more potential than that.)
Tak! a publié une critique de Feed Them Silence par Lee Mandelo
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s …
Feed Them Silence
4 étoiles
Avertissement sur le contenu Feed Them Silence review with spoilers, because I can't figure out how to do it without
This was a hard read.
I identified quite a bit with Riya from the beginning, particularly including the criticism that the researchers were literally objectifying an animal for their own purposes, which did not happen to include helping the animal.
I'm glad that the brain pattern anomalies turned out to be from brain damage instead of something like a two-way connection - it's much more fitting from scientific, literary, and justice perspectives.
I'm missing a sense of finality in the end, feeling a little like Sean's own frustration - Sean didn't grow or change, the corporation keeps on corporating, the research doesn't go anywhere, the wolf pack is going to agonizingly peter out. We just get a snapshot of a bleak slide along an unchanging trajectory from not great to less great, just like real life.
For what it's worth, I'm glad they didn't go all in on the wolf sex.
Tak! a commenté Feed Them Silence par Lee Mandelo
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s …
Avertissement sur le contenu Feed Them Silence chapter 1
It would be pretty hard to be married to somebody that I felt like their whole career was unethical
Tak! a commenté Spread Me par Sarah Gailey
Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, after a routine …
😨 a new sarah gailey
Tak! a commenté The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 par Nnedi Okorafor (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, #2025)
The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s …
THE BEST AMERICAN Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by me and the amazing John Joseph Adams, is now available.
These stories are profound, hilarious, thoughtful, unsettling... stories that stay with you. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did and congrats to all the contributors ! 👻👀👣🤖👽🧙🏾♀️🐈⬛🫂
Tak! a commenté Feed Them Silence par Lee Mandelo
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s …
The #SFFBookClub selection for November 2025
Tak! a noté The Tusks of Extinction : 5 étoiles
The Tusks of Extinction de Ray Nayler
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but …
Tak! a commenté You Weren't Meant to Be Human par Andrew Joseph White
Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White …
This is the most fucked up thing I have ever read
Tak! a commenté Time Shelter - a Novel par Georgi Gospodinov
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
Ok, I think I'm putting this down now - it has become a slog. I took a little break, thinking maybe I just needed a change of pace, but I'm just not into it.
I'm reminded a bit of when, having loved The Historian, I picked up The Shadow Land, also by Elizabeth Kostova. I spent much of the novel anticipating how the surreal elements were going to be introduced, only to eventually realize that it was just a "normal" mystery story (coincidentally also set in / revolving around Bulgaria).
Some of the concepts are intriguing, but they don't seem to be going anywhere (so far).
Tak! a publié une critique de A House With Good Bones par T. Kingfisher
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones …
A House with Good Bones
5 étoiles
Another solid T. Kingfisher messed-up horror story. It has everything: a relatable protagonist, great writing, weirdos, and a twist.
It was obvious to basically everyone but the protagonist what was going on the whole time, but I feel like the point wasn't a big reveal of what was going on, but going along on her journey of discovery with her.
Tak! a publié une critique de Chaos Terminal par Mur Lafferty
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to …
Chaos Terminal
3 étoiles
Chaos Terminal didn't reel me in like Station Eternity did, and I'm not quite sure why.
It could be that it mainly revolves around Mallory and the visiting humans instead of weird aliens, or that we already met all the weird aliens and CT doesn't give us much of anything new, or it could be that I just didn't like it as much. 🤷
Tak! a commenté Star Sword Nemesis par Christine Love
Eris is stylish, cute, and currently in training to be the next wielder of the …
My beautiful and talented wife Christine Love has published a science fiction novel!! It's about girls in space, doing hot girl shit (murder and revolution, I think? I haven't read it, I was waiting until it was finished. I'm gonna go read it). There are swords.
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For launch week the book is on sale, but it was only $5 USD to start with.
Tak! a publié une critique de A Season of Monstrous Conceptions par Lina Rather
Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, monstrosity, …
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions
3 étoiles
An interesting mix of victorian(?) midwifery and eldritch mysticism. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't as groundbreaking as Our Lady of Endless Worlds.