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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The future is blue. Endless blue...except for a few small places that float across the …
Funny and irreverent and angry and at home and at peace with living on the garbage heap of our drowned future.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were …
The dystopian premise that's central but hardly the point narrows and sharpens this otherwise moving English boarding school story of childhood misinterpretations, loves, obsessions growing into adult reframing, acquiescence, and ailing concerns to an objective study of universal questions.
Similar questions of identity and purpose as Permutation City, again that satisfying hard sharp didacticism, a broader galactic exploration scope for minds to weigh their decisions, but didn't resolve nearly as clearly for me.
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than …
Tender and painful, how we make sense of destroying those close to us.
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a …
Beautiful imagined world of near-steampunk and near-gods and near-dynastic-capitalism. Within a caper with increasing stakes, confronts freedom, slavery, and knowing oneself.
The future is blue. Endless blue...except for a few small places that float across the …
Hilarious right off the heap.
Bookclub pick, I'm on edge from the flimsy stereotyping and the seven year old's lisp from the getgo but I have to assume someone knows what they're doing, for now...
Colonialism has always meant genocidal extinction, and with Kendi-esque clarity Lindqvist charts the shifting justifications and revelations swept aside or welcomed in "civilized" society grappling with these terrors and all too normal evils. The elements of the author's own travelogue and of Conrad's literary and experiential background for "Heart of Darkness" are minor counterpoints to a forceful documentation of societal guilt.
Everyone has a secret...
MURDER MYSTERY MADNESS MAGIC
What are you hiding?
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Promising noir murder mystery in a magic high school, I was kept guessing well but also meandered away from caring by the inconsistent stakes and gaps in attention.
""A lyricist at heart, McGriff is a masterful maker of metaphor."-Third Coast"There is majestic beauty …
Grim rural experience and pain, there's an arc from recent to more misty past and back again, and the strongest poem is in that middle distance, about a cow and a grandfather.
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and …
Jarring moving phrasing juxtapositions of popular culture and reflecting on recent immigrant experience of being unwanted, lost, and vulnerable.
“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War
The Zombie War came unthinkably close …
Enjoyable zombie shift, a retrospective on plague through interviews it mostly trades the horror hordes for human stories of disbelief and displacement. War and military get a little too much focus for me, however. The audiobook is a good fit for the format, with a good cast.
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving …
Sweet, a simply staged play or radio drama, a very constrained time travel premise, seems it could have been edited to be a tighter novella, but the loose threads aren't too frayed.
This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph …
Widely speculative collection, from mildly future to space to horror absurd. I most enjoyed The Pill (Meg Elison), Crawfather (Mel Kassel), Skipping Stones In the Dark (Amman Sabet), and Two Truths and a Lie (Sarah Pinsker).
Via Amitav Ghosh's "The Nutmeg's Curse"