Old white cishet suburban male. Software engineer.
Mostly interested in sci-fi (fiction) and anti-racism (non-fiction), but, wow, is that stuff Hard To Read. (Mostly because it's all my fault.)
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In 1859, ex–East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall with an injury that almost cost …
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea …
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
@AlexaReadMeABook Well... I did. 🙂
Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails …
Finally, after much avoidance, getting back to this. It's so unpleasant. Reading about white workers choosing not to unionize because unions were seen as a Black effort. Why are we so easily subverted by an appeal to selfishness?
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
So good.
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body …
It's a bit like robot-detective-noir. I loved it. Good combo of sardonicism (sardonicness? sardonicy?) and dry humor. (Or do those two always go together?)
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris …
As good as the others. (Which to say: excellent.)
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re …
I am LOVING this series, and this novel was no exception.
With all the inner monologue and 4th-wall breaking (and the asynchronous HelpMe.file insertions), I keep thinking "how could this be rendered in video?" (Except I didn't think "render" in my head, because holy cow, is it pretentious.)
And my conclusion is: it would be tough, and very few could do it. I'd love to see it done well, but 99% of book-based video is so "lossy", to appropriate a criticism of JPEG as compared to GIF. ("Lossy" meaning all those delicate plot and character nuances are lost.)
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
