starts promising, hope it continues along this track :>
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cblgh@bookwyrm.social started reading A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social stopped reading Crystal Express by Bruce Sterling
Short stories which depict worlds full of scientific advancement, genetic and surgical modifications of people, …
had already read the good shorts it looks like! moving on
cblgh@bookwyrm.social wants to read Numbercaste by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Numbercaste by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
When Patrick Udo is offered a job at NumberCorp, he packs his bags and goes to the Valley. After all, …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social wants to read Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese
Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass
Over the next generation, humanity will confront a dystopian future of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only ‘solutions’ …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social wants to read Transreal Cyberpunk by Bruce Sterling
Transreal Cyberpunk by Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker
Nine wild, weird and wondrous stories, written together by Rucker and Sterling. What do you get if two cyberpunk masters …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social started reading Crystal Express by Bruce Sterling
Short stories which depict worlds full of scientific advancement, genetic and surgical modifications of people, …
already read quite a few of the shorts in this (they're in Schismatrix Plus), and I once read Green Days In Brunei, but looking forward to the rest :>
From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce …
A Good Old-fashioned Future
4 stars
Solid! Bruce Sterling's quite fun when he gets his engines going in the right direction.
The later shorts are all in the same universe and tie in together with cross-over characters; I enjoyed them immensely. That is: Deep Eddy (the concept of the Wende!), Bicycle Repairman (v good), and Taklamakan (climbing-focused sci-fi, v good).
Weakest of the collection was Sacred Cow; it didn't do anything for me.
cblgh@bookwyrm.social finished reading A Good Old-fashioned Future by Bruce Sterling
A Good Old-fashioned Future by Bruce Sterling
From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social wants to read Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social wants to read Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin
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@loppear interested in your review after finishing!
cblgh@bookwyrm.social wants to read After the Revolution by Robert Evans
After the Revolution by Robert Evans
After the Revolution is a novel about North America, roughly twenty years after the collapse of the old United States. …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social commented on Energy at the End of the World by Laura Watts
Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the …
came across this as a reference to one of the papers i was reading from the Computing within LIMITS conference; seems super intriguing
cblgh@bookwyrm.social wants to read Energy at the End of the World by Laura Watts
Energy at the End of the World by Laura Watts
Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.
The islands of Orkney, …