Saqer (he/they) wants to read The galaxy, and the ground within by Becky Chambers

The galaxy, and the ground within by Becky Chambers
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going …
cranky and grouchy reader, mostly speculative/science/fantasy fiction
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With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going …
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, …
The book was quite awesome. The worldbuilding was quite phenomenal in a way that was quite intense, and interesting.
The Machinehood Manifesto itself, and its consequences, were quite interesting to think about too. SB Divya really thought through an alternative (and more complex) take on robots than the 3 Laws of Robotics.
Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of …
Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of …
Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. …
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring …
Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. …
I've been enjoying all the scifi references, particularly in the planet naming and city names.
The Bobiverse series feel like quite a different take on space opera, but there's some tendency in the Bobs to be quite "white saviory", and that seems to be addressed in this book (when they get exhausted with all the saving).
"Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob …
"Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob …
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As …
This was such a good read, and a good introduction to the history of the Arab/Syrian/Lebanese-American community in New York (but also a little in Michigan). Also if you're looking for stories about trans characters, go for this book.
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name …
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name …