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a publié une critique de A Half-Built Garden par Ruthanna Emrys

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

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

Queer solarpunk first-contact sci-fi

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!

a commenté Dark Matter par Blake Crouch

Blake Crouch: Dark Matter (2016, Crown)

One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife …

it gets better approximately 30% (100 pages) in—i feel inclined to make the controversial suggestion that some readers could skip right there and have a more enjoyable experience by puzzling together some of what had already happened

a commenté Dark Matter par Blake Crouch

Blake Crouch: Dark Matter (2016, Crown)

One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife …

started reading this yesterday. the prose isn't great and it's written like the author anticipates it being picked up for a movie

a publié une critique de Flowers for Algernon par Daniel Keyes

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

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

Flowers for Algernon

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.

a commencé la lecture de Crystal Express par Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling: Crystal Express (1990, Ace) Aucune note

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 :>

a publié une critique de A Good Old-fashioned Future par Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling: A Good Old-fashioned Future (1999)

From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce …

A Good Old-fashioned Future

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.