starts promising, hope it continues along this track :>
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cblgh@bookwyrm.social a commencé la lecture de A Canticle for Leibowitz par Walter M. Miller Jr.
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a interrompu la lecture de Crystal Express par Bruce Sterling
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a commencé la lecture de Crystal Express par Bruce Sterling
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a publié une critique de A Good Old-fashioned Future par Bruce Sterling
A Good Old-fashioned Future
4 étoiles
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 a commenté Energy at the End of the World par Laura Watts
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 a commenté A Good Old-fashioned Future par Bruce Sterling
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a noté Tokyo Vice : 4 étoiles
Tokyo Vice de Jake Adelstein
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social veut lire Piranesi par Susanna Clarke
cblgh@bookwyrm.social veut lire How High We Go in the Dark par Sequoia Nagamatsu
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a noté The long way to a small, angry planet : 5 étoiles
The long way to a small, angry planet de Becky Chambers
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen …
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a publié une critique de The Goblin Emperor par Katherine Addison
Review
5 étoiles
Avertissement sur le contenu mild spoilies on general theme
this book was an excellent traveling companion!
i loved the style of the narrative, avoiding forced plot events in preference of exploring the social setting and all of the (inner) world-building. exactly the kind of depth i was hoping for after going exiting an extended period of adrian tchaikovski novels—sorry adrian! yv'e got great ideas, but surface-level treatment at times
really enjoyed the general premise (growing into unwanted power), the character interactions, and the confusion i felt regarding all the courtiers and their names and origins.
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a commenté The Goblin Emperor par Katherine Addison
cblgh@bookwyrm.social a commenté Last Chance to See par Douglas Adams
the perfect soundtrack for this book is this concept album consisting of sampled sounds from endangered or extinct species
alakebythemoon.bandcamp.com/album/life-in-warp
"Life in Warp" is my debut album. Every sound (like literally every sound, every kick, synth, etc) you hear in the record was created from field recordings of living beings that have been endangered since the beginning of the Anthropocene.