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SallyStrange, 7 months ago to bookstodon

Another post about this cool book I'm currently reading: "The Sol Majestic" by Ferrett Steinmetz. Gotta love that name.

Have you ever wondered how a top-rated restaurant might function on a space station? Light years from any planet? Well, Ferrett Steinmetz thought about it and came up with:
-artificial gravity used to cook things using the heat generated by enormous planetary-scale pressures instead of direct heat
-stasis fields instead of fridges (duh) but also speeded-up time field used to sneak a week's worth of work into an hour
-an alien sourdough culture that MIGHT be sentient

All of this is an excellent backdrop for a story of a young boy finding (gay) love, seeking independence from his parents, and exploring questions of philosophy, truth, capitalism, and marketing. It's not #SolarPunk, but it has that homey vibe.

#LGBTQIA #SciFi #SFF #NowReading #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #Cooking #Cuisine #Chefs

Btw, you can follow me on bookwyrm, I'm @SallyStrange and I read a lot.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/452604/s/the-sol-majestic

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appassionato, 7 months ago to bookstodon

The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World

Nature is rife with cheating. Possums play possum, feigning death to cheat predators. Crows cry wolf to scare off rivals. Amphibians and reptiles are inveterate impostors. Even genes and cells cheat. The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars explores the evolution of cheating in the natural world, revealing how dishonesty has given rise to wondrous diversity.

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#nonfiction
#AnimalBehaviour

garrett, 9 months ago to bookstodon

Drop your Bookwyrm account and lemme follow you. Meanwhile, you can follow me here:

@garrett

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lunalein, 10 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon folks, what’s a book you read once and then revisited many years later? did it hold up? or age like milk?

brought to you by my reread of The Sparrow, which made me feel bonkers.

#books

How do you guys remember the early days of the internet? What do you miss about it? (tim.kicker.dev)

Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested

ryanstraight, 1 year ago to academicchatter

Wondering if anyone has a semester planning template they'd like to share. I feel like I'm recreating the wheel every term, so seeing others' might help me standardize. #academia #academicchatter #Macademia @academicchatter