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3% complete! nogoodnik has read 1 of 30 books.
װאָס פֿאַר אַ גרױסער גאָט מיר האָבן און װי מאָדנע שײן ער פֿירט זײן װעלטל!
What a great G-d we have, and how strangely beautifully He leads His little world!
— Ṭevyeh der milkhiḳer by Sholem Aleichem (Steven Spielberg digital Yiddish library -- no. 10428) (Page 106)
Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life …
Stop me if you've heard this one before: in the far future, on a planet inhabited by a humanoid species with very alien gender roles, an anthropologist takes a journey, asks too many questions, and listens to their stories...
Slow and character-driven in a way that feels hard to manage in a first contact story - much of the book concerns itself with who Lixia meets, and what she (and we) can learn from what they have to say. I loved the rich worldbuilding and mythology, and the very intentional ambiguity on how much of the alien peoples' gender roles are biological vs. cultural: their gender roles are as rigid as ours, yet like us, everyone that Lixia meets seems to be pushing up against them in some way. 3.5 stars bc/ I found the dialogue stiff in a way that suited the aliens, but felt off when it …
Stop me if you've heard this one before: in the far future, on a planet inhabited by a humanoid species with very alien gender roles, an anthropologist takes a journey, asks too many questions, and listens to their stories...
Slow and character-driven in a way that feels hard to manage in a first contact story - much of the book concerns itself with who Lixia meets, and what she (and we) can learn from what they have to say. I loved the rich worldbuilding and mythology, and the very intentional ambiguity on how much of the alien peoples' gender roles are biological vs. cultural: their gender roles are as rigid as ours, yet like us, everyone that Lixia meets seems to be pushing up against them in some way. 3.5 stars bc/ I found the dialogue stiff in a way that suited the aliens, but felt off when it started making its way into the human characters, and there's a twist near the end that I struggle to see the purpose of.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to …
Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the …
On the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by …
Kalpa imperial reúne once relatos, once fragmentos de la historia del Imperio Más Vasto que …
lo leí en el original, y no la traducción al inglés de Ursula Le Guin, pero aún así sentí algo de ella en el tono del prose, y también algo borgesiano en la fantasia fuera-del-tiempo
Kalpa imperial reúne once relatos, once fragmentos de la historia del Imperio Más Vasto que Nunca Existió. Por el narrador …
Through stories at once poetic and poignant, There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart offers a powerful elixir …
Stewart Holbrook was a high school dropout who emerged from logging camps to become the author of three dozen books, …
Fantasía y humor irónico en estas narraciones de la autora de Bajo las jubeas en flor, Floreros de alabastro, alfombras …
"La casa del poeta Novalis acoge las vidas de varias mujeres durante el siglo diecinueve. Con humor, ironía y un …
@kingrat@sfba.club haha, glad the list is being used!
Kalpa imperial reúne once relatos, once fragmentos de la historia del Imperio Más Vasto que Nunca Existió. Por el narrador …
