Read THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei if you love locked room mysteries, space travel, climate change, artificial intelligence, duel narratives, competitive schools, class dynamics, reproductive justice, best friends, desperate decisions, virtual reality, mother-daughter relationships & birds.
Just a thought--if you're going to recommend a book (which is great!), at least give us an idea of what it is about. Don't need a full paragraph summary, but a few words (even just a genre) can help tremendously. I don't care that you think "Olivia Thinkum" is the greatest book ever if I don't even know if it's a thriller, a mystery, a romance, a bildungsroman, etc., never mind a one sentence summary. Bonus - tell us why you love it.
Over the past five months I've read a lot of stories, and three novels, by Adam-Troy Castro, most involving Andrea Cort. They were not written in order of the chronology of her life. I've come to the end of the available stories, and might one day rearrange the page, but that will wait for now. The link will take you to the top of the page, the first published. Other related links at the bottom of the page.
Am 19. Tag unseres Fantastischen Adventskalenders begleite ich Dalibor in die Kathedrale der Hauptstadt Pracht, einen magischen Ort, an dem auch die Luperci erweckt werden.
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Favorite 2023 Releases:
HOUSE OF ODYSSEUS by Claire North
THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES by Malka Older
SILVER NITRATE by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
TRANSLATION STATE by Ann Leckie
Review: Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher
Come for the plot drama, stay for the intriguing developments in fantasy world theology says @chloroform_tea at the @NerdsofaFeather blog today
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Dec 18th: Will you read over the holidays? What book will you choose?
I'll probably read a few more short stories from the Gothic Fantasy collection or from one of my Library of America books. #AmReading@bookstodon#Bookstodon
Read MISLAID IN PARTS HALF-KNOWN by Seanan McGuire if you love thrift stores, maple syrup, reunions, mischiefs of magpies, classrooms, nonsense, running as fast as you can, dinosaurs, goblins, beautiful girls, seeking justice, vegetarian food, croquet, crushes, and goodbyes.
Book sales are slumping and if you're not a celebrity author, your publisher won't do much to promote your work. For The Walrus, Tajjia Isen writes about how "the finicky labour of trying to bottle hype is largely offloaded onto writers," and how all this affects the kind of titles publishers acquire, and the books readers end up buying.
my novelette "Jay Moriarty Violates the Official Secrets Act," a modern-day queer reinterpretation of Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, is free on Smashwords until January 1: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1436835
Welcome to Cry Baby Bridge. If you venture here at the right time of year, on the right kind of night, you might hear a baby crying in the wind. You might see some things you didn’t believe were real...
"Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume."
"Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume."
"Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume."
"This interdisciplinary study analyses the connections between literary Modernism and right-wing ideology. Moreover, it is the first academic study to explore the reception of these Modernist authors by today's far right, seeking to understand in what ways they use strategic readings of Modernist texts to legitimise right-wing ideology."
I saw some of his art online and thought it looked like “Invisible Hands” from Liquid Television, which I LOVED. Same artist! This didn’t have quite the same level of twisted, creepiness as that animated series, but I was so happy to find his work in comic form. There’s more too.
This series is too smart for me—not in a bad way, just that I think I'd get more enjoyment out of it if I were able to have both a pulled back and a focused in view of the world. The interconnections and the highly specific details of this city, this magic, this social strata.
Like the second book in this series, I think I'll enjoy it more on a re-read, which I'm really looking forward to doing.
Book 29: “New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color” edited by #NisiShawl.
Read this after learning a Mastodon mutual is in it. Tend to have a hard time with short story collections, but this one slowly grew on me. I loved the author bios and having a better sense of what informed their pieces, especially as POC authors in this genre. “New Suns” makes up for some of its less successful parts by gathering these voices together into a greater whole.
Really enjoyable, and only the second book in this series. This one follows two characters from the first book, and like the first, devotes good time to their arcs. Unlike the first, the plot moves quicker: it jumps back and forth in time to explore one character’s history.
I think it works as a standalone book, but even better if you read the series. Taking my time to read the next one to prolong it.