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Tak@reading.taks.garden

Joined 3 years, 3 months ago

I like to read

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Bogi Takács: Power to Yield and Other Stories (Broken Eye Books) 5 stars

Power to Yield is a collection of speculative tales exploring gender identity, neurodivergence, and religion …

I added this to the SFFBookClub poll for the month of January because I super enjoyed it.

If you don't know about it, the SFFBookClub is our informal fediverse science fiction and fantasy book club. I figure that folks from bookwyrm probably might be more interested in reading and talking about books so I wanted to post this here as well. We vote, read a book together, and then discuss via the #SFFBookClub hashtag over the course of the month. Take a look if any of these books sound interesting to you and you want to read along with others.

See: weirder.earth/@picklish/113660284130610947 for January poll

See: sffbookclub.eatgod.org/ for more general details

Malka Older: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (Tordotcom) 4 stars

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to …

Sofia Samatar: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain 5 stars

The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels …

Sofia Samatar: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (EBook, 2024, Tor Publishing Group) 5 stars

The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels …

The boy was taken upstairs without warning, unprotesting as he had been through all the changes in his seventeen years, the shifts from cell to cell each time he outgrew the bolt on his ankle and the Doctor came to exchange it for a larger one, an operation performed with a tool the Hold people called the Mallet, which jarred the whole leg and sometimes made the blood spray from the anklebone, and caused a sense of queasiness and superstitious awe in the boy, who would glimpse, for the instant during which the bolt and chain were removed, the shiny and alien-looking patch of underexposed skin on his leg which, according to the prophet, housed the seat of the soul.

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That … is quite the #OpeningSentence

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Yume Kitasei: The Deep Sky (2023, Flatiron Books) 4 stars

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …

The Deep Sky

4 stars

A great combination scifi thriller / space whodunit. It's much more Serious than The Stardust Grail, but explores some similar themes, e.g. betrayal and loss.