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halfflat

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PhD ethnomusicologist. Currently writing about sound, experimental music, and urban change in Austin, Texas.

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Saul Pandelakis: La séquence Aardtman (Paperback)
William Gibson, William F. Gibson (duplicate): Mona Lisa Overdrive (Paperback, 1989, Bantam Books)
Nick Seaver: Computing Taste (2022, University of Chicago Press)

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William Gibson, William F. Gibson (duplicate): Count Zero (Paperback, 1995, Voyager)
Palol, Miquel de.: Ígur Neblí (Spanish language, 1994, Anagrama)

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Christelle Dabos: La mémoire de Babel (Paperback, Français language, 2017, Gallimard)
William Gibson: Neuromancer (Hardcover, 2016, Penguin Classics)
Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas (EBook, 2009, Orbit)

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reviewed A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle Series, #1)

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea (EBook, 2012, Clarion Books)

Originally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea marks the first …

Great work of all-ages fantasy

I'm sure everyone knows this by now, but Le Guin's foray into all-ages fantasy is tremendous. Her writing style is as lean as ever, and the social specificity of all her work is refreshing. Takes the mytho-poetic mode of fantasy and the Bildungsroman and delicately rearranges both.