Reading Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” and it just occurs to me: is this book a self-conscious inversion of “Never Let Me Go”? A story about continuing a life that’s ending, rather than ending a life (“completing”) to continue another?
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It’s not a bad life, really, out here where they’re learning to let things live again.
from "Sun Flowers" by Samantha Rich
https://www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/061
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The wind, the whisperers are taught at the Conservatory, is a capricious thing. It plays, it explores, it has tantrums and preferences.
from "Wind Whisperers" by Anna O'Brien
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Escape Pod this week features Esther Alter's "Magical Girl Antifa War Machine", and it's my favourite short speculative fiction I've read or listened to this year. It's messy, brutal, unflinching, and beautiful. There are warranted content warnings for this story, but if you can experience it, I think it's rewarding. The four narrators do great work, and it was especially nice to hear Escape Pod founder Serah Eley narrate again.
Audio and text are both available.
https://escapepod.org/2025/05/22/escape-pod-994-magical-girl-antifa-war-machine/
Finished reading Andrew Ludington's "Splinter Effect."
https://amzn.to/4bBkVmv
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A really engaging, and often cinematic, #TimeTravel #SciFi adventure story, like if Doctor Who and Indiana Jones were coworkers.
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You think it's been a month. Maybe two. You're still content, but not at peace, and The Cat is fucking sick of it.
from "The Climacteric" by Caren Gussoff Sumption
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Started reading Andrew Ludington's "Splinter Effect."
https://amzn.to/4bBkVmv
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29 pages in and I can already tell this is going to be a fun one, like if Indiana Jones had a T.A.R.D.I.S.
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It was a privilege to sing to the dead.
from "Roil" by A.C. Luke
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In honor of Adrian Tchaikovsky's very entertaining and inventive sci-fi novel "Service Model" being released in paperback, here's the interview he and I did about it last year.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-service-model-author-adrian-tchaikovsky/
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In honor of Adrian Tchaikovsky's very entertaining and inventive sci-fi novel "Service Model" being released in paperback, here's the interview he and I did about it last year.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-service-model-author-adrian-tchaikovsky/
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Finished reading Daryl Gregory's "When We Were Real."
https://amzn.to/3FC6HG7
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This was one wild and weird but also entertaining #Cyberpunk #SciFi #RoadTrip novel. Need to check on his other books.
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ICYMI: For those curious about the books after watching "Murderbot," I did a little recap of my experience reading the seven that are currently available in our latest episode. There's some other cool stuff there, too!
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HUMAN is free today (May 17) for Kindle $0.
If you didn't get a copy during my #fediverse giveaway at release, Kindle readers can get one now.
https://www.amazon.com/HUMAN-Brett-Hodnett-ebook/dp/B0F1NCPGXP
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