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Ray Nayler: Mountain in the Sea (2022, Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 3 étoiles

Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and …

digging this a lot. sometimes in a "i don't know what take this is even going for?"-way

often in an "octopods are freaking cool"-way

as sci-fi goes, plenty of interesting perspectives and ideas and parallels getting thrown your way, liking the structure as well

Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden (EBook, 2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 étoiles

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …

Queer solarpunk first-contact sci-fi

4 étoiles

As the title says: queer solarpunk first-contact sci-fi!

Recommended for anyone that liked:

  • the first book of the Wanderer series by Becky Chambers
  • for anyone solar-curious
  • for nerds with kids
  • for nerds without kids
  • for fans of peer-to-peer mesh networks (yes, really)

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!

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Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (Paperback, 1978, Bantam Books) 5 étoiles

FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON made its first appearance as a short story which was rapidly and …

Flowers for Algernon

4 étoiles

Goodness gracious. So many themes are touched on in this book, and I think I'll be haunted for some time to come by the ideas raised.

I'm a sucker for both an epistolary-style novel (which this classifies as, given the diary format) and the bildungsroman genre which I can also see reflected in the type of story it is, albeit not perfectly—so if either of those butter your biscuits well dangit bring out the tea cause these biscuits are ready to be eaten, buttered and all!!

Recommended read for many reasons, and not only because it's hard to let go of once started.