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A standalone novel in the fantastic world of Katherine Addison's award-winning The Goblin Emperor.
When young half-goblin emperor Maia sought …
Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet
It …
slowly starting this in jet-lag comedown mode (typically pass out within 3 sentences X)
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The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of …
Shut down a coal plant, and you can slow global warming for a day; shut down the relations that made the coal plant, and you cam stop it for good.
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In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian …
Impressive set of lectures on the societal implications of technology - broadly, from ancient metalworking to sewing machines to electrification to military industrial arms - from a feminist pacifist horizontalist perspective. Franklin highlights ways in which technical choices obscure moving from holistically artisan to hierarchical control, from biological growth and uncertainty to manufacturing's obliviousness to context, and the false claims of liberation or ease from the introduction of new tech which turns to exploitation and makes us dependent on industrial supply and control.
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one …
The past lies like a nightmare over the world.
Two hundred years after the War when atomic fire rained from …
When all is madness... there is no madness.
Is there wisdom in insanity? Enlightenment in blackest despair? Higher consciousness in …
@loppear i saw this in a book store in sf and would have probably bought it if not for my packing constraints!!
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …
As the title says: queer solarpunk first-contact sci-fi!
Recommended for anyone that liked:
It definitely has some weird bits, not necessarily in a negative sense. I enjoyed this a bunch and kept telling people about during my travels in the past weeks—so that's probably a better recommendation indicator than anything!
The author even coined a potential subgenre in describing the book: diaperpunk!
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. …
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. …
"Two decades ago the U.S. Government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to a desert prison, far …
