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technicat

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Left goodreads a while back, nice to get organized with my reading again, especially as part of the #fediverse. Links to my other accounts and sites at philipchu.com/

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Celeste Ng, Celeste Ng: Our Missing Hearts (EBook, 2022, Penguin Publishing Group) 5 stars

From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending …

OK, it's depressing because this stuff is happening, but timely and beautifully written

5 stars

I recently watched the show Dark Matter, where some alternate universes are just a hair's divergence from ours, and this racist, hyper-patriotic, child-separating, book-banning reality with Handmaid's Tale and Fahrenheight 451 vibes almost looks like yesterday's news (and as the author points out in the afterword, historically it is). Despite the story being a heartfelt cry of rage, the tone is measured, beautifully written with some nice turns of phrase and some passages that just flow, almost compelling us to persevere.

reviewed A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #2)

Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky (Paperback, 2000, Tor Books) 4 stars

After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an …

Vintage Vinge

5 stars

I've read a lot of great books in the science fiction section that I wouldn't really call science fiction, but this is science fiction in all the right ways. Fun characters (human and non - I found myself wishing for a listing of aliens, I was having trouble keeping track), deep thoughts on society and politics, plenty of action, and cool science - a key character in its own right and not just window dressing. Plenty of digs at AI, too, which, considering this book was published twenty-five years ago, shows good scifi stands the test of time.