Tak! commented on The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
The #SFFBookClub pick for December 2024
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The #SFFBookClub pick for December 2024
“Are you dying?” he asks. “You have to tell me if you’re dying.”
Sunai has never witnessed any trainwreck more compelling than his own.
You are alone when you die.
A story about friendship, betrayal, and the aftereffects of colonization (in space!) with heists.
The aliens are alien, there's some interesting exploration of wormholes and first contact dynamics, and the action is engaging and unpredictable.
@Tak @SallyStrange just a heads up that I tried to do this a couple of days ago and my order is still "pending" because of demand, which is great that it's so popular but also a bit frustrating. So be prepared to wait for your books
COVER REVEAL! It's my next book, "Automatic Noodle," a cozy, near-future story about a group of food service bots in an abandoned ghost kitchen who take over their own delivery app account. They rebrand as a neighborhood lunch spot, and start making tasty hand-pulled noodles. Set in San Francisco after a horrible war, this is about rebuilding and finding love after political disaster.
Coming 8.5.25! Please pre-order! us.macmillan.com/books/9781250357465/automaticnoodle > Art by Eric Nyquist Design by Christine Foltzer
Maya would have thought the stress of her present circumstances would have prevented her from further stress, but apparently that was not how her brain worked.
same
"Climate-fucking son of a plastic-loving corporate motherfucker," said Wil.
Ok, I'm adopting this one
"It’s like five times the size of the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Wil raised a hand. "What’s that in British Museum, please?"
The largest private collection of rare artifacts from other worlds could be found in central New Jersey at Princeton University, and if anyone knew Maya Hoshimoto was a thief, they wouldn’t have let her anywhere near there.
Content warning vague metaspoiler
Arton Daghdev is the ultimate unreliable narrator
Another great Tchaikovsky take on the truly alien, this time with added revolutionary fervor. If you like near-to-mid-future scifi rooted in existing social issues and aliens that aren't just humans with weird foreheads, Alien Clay is for you!
@Barbarius@outside.ofa.dog I could lend you mine 😉