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Ki is a petty thief. Her best friend wills her his solo-flyer--call it a space …
down into atmosphere. Every civilized world considered firing into atmosphere an act of war against all sides on that planet. "Oxygen is non-partisan" was the saying.
— Galactic Hellcats by Marie Vibbert (57%)
Never thought of that.
@klara@wandering.shop Linux?
I kinda hate magnify as the answer to "too small." I want one or two things bigger, (scroll bars,) not everything.
Ki is a petty thief. Her best friend wills her his solo-flyer--call it a space …
And a quest! A quixotic quest!
— Galactic Hellcats by Marie Vibbert (Page 36)
Um. Those tend to not be good things.
Ki is a petty thief. Her best friend wills her his solo-flyer--call it a space …
She wondered if stealing data was morally the same, whether you were fighting censorship or a paywall.
— Galactic Hellcats by Marie Vibbert (Page 33)
Ki is a petty thief. Her best friend wills her his solo-flyer--call it a space …
Also, I vibe the most with Margot. Aside from the military thing, She seems the closest to how I'd be in that situation.
(no military for me in part thanks to my dad lambasting it as he was drafted.)
@klara@wandering.shop Bullet heck.
Ki is a petty thief. Her best friend wills her his solo-flyer--call it a space …
One of the things this book revolves around is meeting the expectations of/resisting against the characters' parents. I suppose that is something that one is more acutely concerned with when you're in your late teens/early twenties.
Though sitting here shy of forty, I suppose one knows by now if they have it or not. Though I can't say it's not still a subconscious concern.
Hm.
@klara@wandering.shop Tbh, it seems like a game that should have an accessibility option.
Ki is a petty thief. Her best friend wills her his solo-flyer--call it a space …
"That's a girl," Ki sent via ansible, the text somehow conveying her smug tone. "l knew you'd take the Leap."
— Galactic Hellcats by Marie Vibbert (20%)
Now, I mostly read queer genre fiction, but I run into ansibles surprisingly often. I wonder if they are as common in straight sci fi.
Le Guin made her mark regardless.
In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of …
Book three of the novelization of Girl Genius continues it's witty, madcap take on Frankenstein. The novels continue to expand on areas glossed over by the webcomic, detailing what might have been in the background of one or two panels, occasionally adding something entirely new.
I would suggest reading the webcomic first at www.girlgeniusonline.com/
In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle begins as Agatha …
Ki is a petty thief. Her best friend wills her his solo-flyer--call it a space …
So, a gay space biker book. Not my usual. The biker part at least.
I do notice that I have a few archetypes for female characters in my head. Zarya Overwatch or that buff robot woman from Questionable Content, a friend of mine if on the skinny side, And Mokoto Kusanagi's haircut.
Margot came up as Zarya, but as I read, I don't think that's it. She's ex navy, but sounds more with the sliders in the middle, with maybe the buff one a little higher.
My first thought was she's short because being on an enclosed naval [space]ship would probably warrant being small, but given that she's a "Lunatic", (person from the Moon, love the name,) maybe she is tall.
Ki is a petty thief. Her best friend wills her his solo-flyer--call it a space …
Her sergeant had warned her about this exact situation. "When I finished my first tour," her sergeant said, "four of my buddies blew all their saved up pay on solo-flyers and within a year, three of them were dead from crashes and the fourth was paralyzed the rest of his life at twenty-two years old. Stupid kids with money for the first time! Don't be Like that. Save your pay like it was somebody else's money and get a job fast or you'll be back in the service within a year. Like me."
Margot wasn't a stupid kid. She was a good girl. She'd always been a good girl. Top third of her class. No disciplinary hearings in the military. Honorable discharge. She'd done everything right.
— Galactic Hellcats by Marie Vibbert (9%)
Coughs at the "good girl" statement.
In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of …
Content warning Footnote 98 for Agatha H. and the voice of the castle by Phil Foglio. Funny.
Yes, yes, the whole “brain swap without surgery” thing. In a rare display of solidarity, Sparks have universally discouraged this particular field of research for two reasons. The first, that science is regarded with enough suspicion as it is, without allowing plausible justification for the whole ‘Is my ruler/boss/lover who I think they are? Or has their mind been replaced by an agent of a secret cabal that is out to get me?’ thing. The second, that it’s really hard to do, and those who manage to successfully pull it off are bloody insufferable about it.
— Agatha H. and the voice of the castle by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio (A girl genius novel -- 3) (98%)
Foglio is not as good as Pratchett with the funny footnotes, but they are still funny.
In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of …
In my opinion, it was dangerously close to deciding that killing us all would have kept us ‘safe.’” All the Sparks nodded. It was a problem endemic in the field of artificial intelligence.
— Agatha H. and the voice of the castle by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio (A girl genius novel -- 3) (Page 84)
lol
