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The future of storytelling is here.
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing …
My forthcoming novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR (Jan 2025) is about death, disability, ability, the complexity of culture, immigrants & the next generations, machines, AI, gun ownership, creative writing, the space race, so much more. At its heart, it's about the power of STORYTELLING. And it has a hell of an ending.
"You must be as sharp as a stilettotore’s dagger and as subtle as a fish …
What a rollercoaster!
Navola could not be more different than Bacigalupi's excellent despairpunk scifi, with the exception that it is also excellent.
«Oh, sí, mis buenas gentes, sí, ya lo creo que sí. Se puede vivir en …
The #SFFBookClub pick for October 2024
Counterweight is a nearish-future scifi thriller set on the island of Patusan, which I have just learned today has a long literary legacy.
The plot follows an unnamed employee of the LK Corporation as he attempts to unravel a series of events revolving around the world's first space elevator, erected by LK on Patusan. I enjoyed the originality of the setting, but I found the whole thing fairly convoluted and somewhat difficult to follow.
The dystopian corporation-state future where having a literal worm implanted in your brain is a condition of employment is becoming all too plausible at this point.
As Vardia descends into chaos, Captain Frey is doing his best to keep his crew …
I really like "kloms" as a shortening of kilometers
There are only three real powers in the universe: the corporate power of the Trust …
Cascade Failure is an action-packed scifi novel about a ragtag spaceship crew of misfits that gets involved in Significant Events. It's snappy and engaging, but it's not heavy on horizon-expanding content - it feels a bit like a space-opera version of a Tales of the Ketty Jay novel
The #SFFBookClub selection for September 2024
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend …
The Sleeping Car Porter is kind of an ensemble farce with subtle paranormal elements, experienced through a porter for a sleeping car on a transcontinental voyage across Canada.
The porter is a gay (or bi?) black man in Canada in the 1920s, and there's a strong focus on the various aggressions and disadvantages he's exposed to in light of that.
Weird and enjoyable.
The Rust programming language is extremely well suited for concurrency, and its ecosystem has many …
Mara@hachyderm.io - Reminder that my book—Rust Atomics and Locks—is freely available online: marabos.nl/atomics/ 😊
(If you read it, please leave a review on www.goodreads.com/book/show/63291820-rust-atomics-and-locks)
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
The #SFFBookClub pick for August 2024
To fix the world they first must break it further.
Humanity is a dying breed, …
If you loved Service Model, or wanted to love it but wished it was more "serious", I can also recommend The Mechanical
To fix the world they first must break it further.
Humanity is a dying breed, …
This is one of the ones you can tell he had fun writing.
The tone is all across the spectrum, from farcical to bleak to heartwarming, and the writing is characteristically delightful, with lots of flippant throwaway lines.
I love that @janellecshane@wandering.shop got a well-deserved mention in the acknowledgements.
To fix the world they first must break it further.
Humanity is a dying breed, …
I have encountered the word "yeeted" in a sophisticated literary novel, and now I can die happy
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS has been out in the world just over a year. As of today, it's collected NINE award nominations (today's news: the Dragon Award shortlist is out) The Ignytes and Dragons are now open for public voting! See the post for how to vote. vajra.me/2024/08/05/ten-toes-in/
