Critiques et Commentaires

This is a novel so Australian that it goes from Milo to "no worries" to lamington in the course of a single paragraph.

Apart from that, it's kind of a typical crime novel following the investigation of a young teenage girl's disappearance.

The most interesting thing it does, in my opinion, is, among the chapters following various characters' viewpoints, adding "we" chapters that are meant to be kind of a combined viewpoint of the town's kids.

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My forthcoming novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR (Jan 2025) is about death, disability, ability, the complexity of culture, immigrants & the next generations, machines, AI, gun ownership, creative writing, the space race, so much more. At its heart, it's about the power of STORYTELLING. And it has a hell of an ending.

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What a rollercoaster!

Navola could not be more different than Bacigalupi's excellent despairpunk scifi, with the exception that it is also excellent.

The #SFFBookClub pick for October 2024

I really like "kloms" as a shortening of kilometers

Read it at asteriskmag.com/issues/07/sins-of-the-children

Cascade Failure is an action-packed scifi novel about a ragtag spaceship crew of misfits that gets involved in Significant Events. It's snappy and engaging, but it's not heavy on horizon-expanding content - it feels a bit like a space-opera version of a Tales of the Ketty Jay novel

The #SFFBookClub selection for September 2024

The Sleeping Car Porter is kind of an ensemble farce with subtle paranormal elements, experienced through a porter for a sleeping car on a transcontinental voyage across Canada.

The porter is a gay (or bi?) black man in Canada in the 1920s, and there's a strong focus on the various aggressions and disadvantages he's exposed to in light of that.

Weird and enjoyable.

Mara@hachyderm.io - Reminder that my book—Rust Atomics and Locks—is freely available online: marabos.nl/atomics/ 😊

(If you read it, please leave a review on www.goodreads.com/book/show/63291820-rust-atomics-and-locks)

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The #SFFBookClub pick for August 2024

If you loved Service Model, or wanted to love it but wished it was more "serious", I can also recommend The Mechanical

This is one of the ones you can tell he had fun writing.

The tone is all across the spectrum, from farcical to bleak to heartwarming, and the writing is characteristically delightful, with lots of flippant throwaway lines.

I love that @janellecshane@wandering.shop got a well-deserved mention in the acknowledgements.

I have encountered the word "yeeted" in a sophisticated literary novel, and now I can die happy