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The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches …
I didn't know what to expect from a novella about a convent of space nuns wandering the vacuum inside a gigantic sea slug, and that's what I got
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches …
They spoke about a future under Central Governance like a good thing, with the thoughtless repetition of children who hadn’t yet learned to question what their teachers said.
My feeling when some new infosec best practice is announced
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches …
After she had affixed the crucifix to the ship’s inner membrane with a dab of bioglue under each of the nails, she had laid her head against the muculent wall and listened to the heartbeat pumping fluid across the ship’s undulating body.
Tak!
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A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and …
The Hollow Places is a horror novel by T. Kingfisher. The premise is that newly divorced Kara goes back to live in her uncle's curio museum; when a mysterious hole in the wall appears and goes to what seems to be another dimension, she and her barista friend investigate. Overall, horror is not usually my cuppa but this was an enjoyable creepy ride (and I'll read anything by T. Kingfisher at this point).
But he groaned and stomped around the hall for a few minutes, then said, "Okay. But this is how people die in horror movies, you know."
"You're not the teensiest bit curious?
"I'm incredibly curious! I've just also seen horror movies!"
This book is intensely creepy at times, and the horror elements all the more unsettling for being fuzzy and unseen and unknowable. I wish a little that there was a little bit more character development or …
The Hollow Places is a horror novel by T. Kingfisher. The premise is that newly divorced Kara goes back to live in her uncle's curio museum; when a mysterious hole in the wall appears and goes to what seems to be another dimension, she and her barista friend investigate. Overall, horror is not usually my cuppa but this was an enjoyable creepy ride (and I'll read anything by T. Kingfisher at this point).
But he groaned and stomped around the hall for a few minutes, then said, "Okay. But this is how people die in horror movies, you know."
"You're not the teensiest bit curious?
"I'm incredibly curious! I've just also seen horror movies!"
This book is intensely creepy at times, and the horror elements all the more unsettling for being fuzzy and unseen and unknowable. I wish a little that there was a little bit more character development or reveal (such as a more tight thematic coupling of Kara's backstory or marriage with the present events). However, I really enjoyed both the banter and also the centering of the museum as a welcoming and protective home rather than playing it just for creeps.
The author's note said that this was based on the 1907 short story The Willows, by Algernon Blackwood and I wish I had read that first so that I could understand some references that would have passed me by otherwise.
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches …
Sister Varvara had a face like the surface of an uninhabited moon, gray and stern.
In the distance, Sister Varvara instantly drops dead
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches …
While the sisters of the Our Lady of Impossible Constellations argued themselves in circles, the Reverend Mother sat silently in her chair at the head of the chapel as she always did, listening to the arguments twist and double back on themselves.
The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. …
An adequate whodunit set in alternate contemporary Lisbon where a minority of people are gifted with telepathic or telekinetic powers.
There were some oddities - for example, the protagonist talks about the ambient temperature in every scene. I was expecting it to become a plot point, but apparently it's just there. The story revolves around two investigators doing their thing, but they're oddly timid - they're perfectly content with people just refusing to talk to them about the investigation, and they act like getting a warrant for some piece of evidence that all their other evidence points at is an impossible obstacle.
It was enjoyable despite these details, and I'll probably read the subsequent entries eventually.
The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. …
Opening her eyes at the sound of her alarm had felt like a particular type of torture.
That was me this morning 😩
The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. …
The first time Isabel heard a voice in her head, she’d tried to talk back.
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
The whole thing made me understand the human expression “it made me want to vomit.” Why would you ever want to do something that was so objectively disgusting and looked so painful. Oh, this was why, I get it now.
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
I was too tense to even think about media
How you know when shit is getting real
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
Dr. Bharadwaj told me once that she thought I hated planets because of the whole thing with being considered expendable and the possibility of being abandoned. I told her it was because planets were boring.
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a …
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence …
Dead men throw bad parties.
— Rose/House by Arkady Martine
