computer scientist, mathematician, photographer, human. Debian Developer, Notmuch Maintainer, scuba diver
Much of my "reading" these days is actually audiobooks while walking.
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bremner@bookwyrm.social is also me. Trying a smaller instance to see if the delays are less maddening.
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Fourteen year old Mona is a baker but she is also a not-very-powerful wizard - her medium of choice is …
Security expert Dora left her anarchist commune over safety concerns. But when her ex-girlfriend Kay is killed, everyone at the …
@tofuwabohu@wyrms.de All star cast of authors...
Fourteen year old Mona is a baker but she is also a not-very-powerful wizard - her medium of choice is …
Autonomous features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her …
As if Neal Stephenson had an editor, and a bit more nuanced politics.
Autonomous features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her own submarine. A notorious anti-patent …
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training …
It would be unfair to call it derivative but it seems clear the author is an Ian M Banks / Culture novels fan. What makes the book interesting for me is the exploration of the question of "what if effective and precise self-regulation of brain chemistry was possible". This has interesting ripple effects on politics and the definition of personal autonomy.
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training …
Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an …
Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales …
A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward …
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there …
This is really good, I would say genre transcending. While reading it, I had the (probably trite) thought that good books make you think about the system, great books make you think about your self.
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there …
Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always …
At points this felt a bit like a murderbot homage (or at least a sly reference).
