Reading for fun, threads over the years of scifi, history, social movements and justice, farming, philosophy. I actively work to balance out the white male default in what I read, but have a long way to go.
He/they for the praxis.
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"Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese …
A solid consistent collection of muted set pieces on losing or ceding control of your mind or your volition, with characters alternately bored or terrified at the prospect.
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the …
Why not start a really big book today?
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
A solarpunk world that has learned to be content and self-limiting, an unsatisfied uncertain monk who offers an ear to people's worries and exhaustions, on a charming journey seeking purpose beyond needs. A wholesome meditation on a positive future.
This is one of the finest books for children, both boys and girls. In 1928, …
Clear memories of your first encounters with words - from this book, "promontory" has striking precedence for me, ever since pictured from the perspective of a small sailboat sighting across a bay.
From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that …
A warmly thoughtful and engaged family pulled in all directions as society's definition of "neurotypical" shifts beneath them. Seems YA in many respects, extent of conflicts and constrained depths.
"Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese …
I'll hold off on reviewing until after bookclub discussion. Consistent collection.
A fantastic and philosophical vision of the apocalypse by one of the most striking Italian …
Self-doubt of psychiatry and suicide, of fearing turning 40, of being judged... what?
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern …
The misuse of mathematical models to punish mostly the poor through opaque and ubiquitous scoring, built on proxied data and mushy questions without feedback or recourse or oversight. Thorough examples across life, with consequential analysis.
A collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, …
Fleeting essays on curios of the natural world, seasoned with memoir of race and being the new kid.
Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic …
But a lot of sci-fi stock banged together didn't make anything larger for me.
Life stories, fleeting and echoed like a mad wind murmuring over the geology of the subcontinent, seeking the unassuming respect of the earth.
Questioning, facing, uprooting, in racist society and in the personal past. Ganymede, Bullet Points, and Stake were standout to me.
Set in Kolkata, India, the novel tells the story of its central character Jivan, a …
Or the whims of power, or fate and action... it's an intro to slum life and political corruption in a women & hijira centering story, but far too thin for me in comparison to, say, Behind The Beautiful Forevers.
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the …
Collisions of meaning and tumbles of the tongue, these are gay and hurt and childlike and open to sweetness.
En este libro el autor nos exhibe una novela de construcción robusta, personajes completos como …
Cuban sci-fi with mutants and telepathy and long ago consequences of the cold war. There's some late 70s debates about sexuality that don't age great, but overall modern and inventive as the third part plays out layers of dangerous assumptions about societal norms, progress, and savagery that swings critiques across the players from monopolistic greed to control and surveillance and model societal roles.