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alicehandle

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Joined 9 months, 1 week ago

I like sci-fi and communism 👍

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2025 Reading Goal

52% complete! alicehandle has read 13 of 25 books.

Patrick Parrinder, Yao Haijun, Leah Cypess, Ronald Ferguson, Russell James, Alex Shvartsman, Amdi Silvestri, Allen Stroud, Eleanor Wood, Bao Shu, Zhao Haihong, Chen Zijun, Han Song, Wang Jinkang, He Xi: Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers) (2023)

Mostly a disappointment

Most of these stories are not very good, and I was really disappointed by the amateur translations of the Chinese short stories. Regardless, "Shine" by Chen Zijun, "Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet" by He Xi, and "Minuet of Corpses" by Amdi Silvestri were my top three.

Arkady Martine: A Desolation Called Peace (Hardcover, 2021, Tor Books)

An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with …

(Which one of them had she fucked, last night? Which one of them had brought a long that strange, lovely graphic story with lines like it's precious but it's not a memory and I'm everything you need?)

(Did she really want to know? Probably not.)

A Desolation Called Peace by  (Teixcalaan, #2) (Page 384)

Ok the sequel is nowhere near as enjoyable in these matters as the previous installation but it is kind of funny that Three Seagrass is panicking over whether or not she fucked her girlfriend's headmate or not because Mahit is being insufferably egocentric and uncommunicative about her plurality