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A short story by Tamsyn Muir that takes place prior to the events in her …
It’s a lovely locked room mystery featuring the sixth house heroes and an insight into the stories that feed into Gideon the ninth.
A short story by Tamsyn Muir that takes place prior to the events in her …
In the end, the mystery is solved but more are revealed.
A short story by Tamsyn Muir that takes place prior to the events in her The Locked Tomb Trilogy.
"Each …
A short story by Tamsyn Muir that takes place prior to the events in her …
I’m a sucker for the ninth.
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re …
Another great murderbot romp. I thought it did well to have a little more room to breathe in the space of a full novel.
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy is a …
The process of financialization has meant that an ever-increasing proportion of corporate profits come in the form of rent extraction of one sort or another. Since this is ultimately little more than legalized extortion, it is accompanied by ever-increasing accumulation of rules and regulations, and ever-more sophisticated, and omnipresent, threats of physical force to enforce them. Indeed they become so omnipresent that we no longer realize we're being threatened, since we cannot imagine what it would be like not to be.
— The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber (Page 69)
Nice
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …
I liked the first and just saw a review that the next is great. Into the to read pile!
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re …
Ah murderbot. Good to see you again
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy is a …
It's as if someone had consciously tried to create the least appealing possible political position. It is a testimony to the genuine lingering power of leftist ideals that anyone would even consider voting for a party that promoted this sort of thing--because surely, if they do, it's not because they actually think these are good policies, but because these are the only policies anyone who identifies themselves as left- of-center is allowed to set forth.
— The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber (Page 6)
I’m just in the introduction and it’s head nodding time already. Love it!
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy is a …
A little non fiction after the fictional delights
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
This feels like a good LeGuin novel. Our characters go on a journey, they discover things, we learn about a very different world and we build to a crisis with a resolution that surprises in kindness.
Zero laser blasts. Real problems.
Tea throughout as a center to the plot. I loved it and will be following the next adventures.
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
What a lovely and unique climax and for such important and rarely used stakes!
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
This book is wonderful and super charming. But this particular meal is just the cutest.
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
If multiple people casually mention a book like this I’ll surely take a peek
"How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative. Recent years …
This is probably one of those books I'll take a long time to sip my way through.
