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@lapis my partner read it and loved it! We also have "Hell Followed with Us," and that one is definitely on my to-read list

I'm enjoying this a lot! Really great banter between Red and Blue, and I like how the authors have talked about how communicating with each other in "letter space" feels: locusmag.com/2020/02/amal-el-mohtar-max-gladstone-letter-space/

I've been avoiding using social media for entertainment—just to interact with people. This book is one of the ones helping me rediscover reading fiction in my search for more hobbies: reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/06-18-2024

I love how this manages to be both bleak and hopeful, and the writing is compelling and satisfying. I have several bookmarked passages that I regularly return to, and it's one of the few books that's managed to make me genuinely cry.

I read this when it came out, and I don't remember all the details, but I've considered it one of my favorite books for a while. It was very beautiful, and I liked the magical realism elements

Really awesome book! Has a comprehensive framework for thinking about music that uses microphones/loudspeakers as instruments, as well as a thorough discussion of the repertoire of this music. I like to compose with these kinds of mic/speaker setups, and the book was very helpful in thinking about how to do that.

This is one of the books that inspired my current composition work. I love to write music that samples radio sounds or makes instruments sound like they're heard on the radio, or on old broken tapes/CDs, and I think a lot about how these sounds can "haunt" a listener, as Gallerneaux describes

I liked this book a lot — I enjoy older visions of what the future would look like. The writing style gave me a harder time than usual visualizing exactly what was happening. I was left with fuzzy, hallucinatory images, and that gave a "future shock" effect where the world felt deeply unfamiliar.