Did the audiobook of this while I had a fever. Appropriate, as the novel itself has a lot of fever dream vibes.
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ingrid finished reading The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
When pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the …
ingrid finished reading Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death …
ingrid finished reading The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo
A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael …
(Full disclosure I went to high school with Paz) This was a fun alternate-history noir!
ingrid finished reading The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one …
ingrid finished reading Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So …
Did the audiobook. Very fun!
ingrid finished reading Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian
A pretty good synthesis with a kind of confusing conclusion. (I read an advance review copy so maybe this was changed later, not sure.)
ingrid finished reading The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
Fun and provocative, but this felt like it should have been a trilogy and unfortunately got squished into a single volume. Kim Stanley Robinson blurbed this and is thanked in the acknowledgments, so I don't feel totally dismissive of Newitz's efforts when noting that the influence of the Mars Trilogy is pretty apparent in this epic planetary narrative. But Newitz only gets like 350 pages to create their centuries-spanning world, compared to KSR's set of tomes, and it at times I felt a little rushed along. I wanted to have more time with some of the characters and the political economy.
I love that one of the central characters is a sentient organic flying train though, that's great. Also minor spoiler, the train fucks!
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@jcalpickard I didn't mind it but it felt more like a decision made for narrative suspense than literary resonance. I think what you said in your review about how the King timeline feeling disconnected from Athena timeline is pretty right on.
ingrid finished reading The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family …
Pretty good although I found the tech dystopia part a little simplistic and I kind of wanted more detail on Rao's apparent brilliance to make the meteoric rise seem less fable-ish--e.g. we're told he's really good at writing code and making new programming languages but we don't really get any insight into what coding is like for him or what's unique about his languages. If the idea is that he's kind of a Steve Jobs-ian charlatan who isn't actually that good at stuff and the lesson is the happenstance of capitalism, would also like more evidence to support that framing!
ingrid finished reading Saving Time by Jenny Odell
Saving Time by Jenny Odell
Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside, is destroying …
ingrid finished reading Economic Poisoning by Adam M. Romero
For school. Really informative and fucked up!
ingrid wants to read Tres by Roberto Bolaño
Tres by Roberto Bolaño, Laura Healy
Roberto Bolaño’s Tres is a showcase of the author’s willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose, stories in …
ingrid finished reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur …
I wasn't expecting to be so taken by this but I read it in a few hours and really enjoyed it!
ingrid finished reading White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link
Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly …
I love Prince Hat!!