technicat started reading Ascender by Jeff Lemire (Ascender, #1)
Ascender by Jeff Lemire (Ascender, #1)
Ein Universum voller Magie… eine mysteriöse Prophezeiung… fast vergessene Freunde und alte Feinde, die im Dunkeln lauern… und ein junges …
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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Ein Universum voller Magie… eine mysteriöse Prophezeiung… fast vergessene Freunde und alte Feinde, die im Dunkeln lauern… und ein junges …
There is no one true way to interpret the Constitution, but that’s not what originalists want you to think. They’d …
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.
From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love …
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.
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: …
"Set during Prohibition, and deep in the backwoods of Appalachia, Moonshine #1 tells the story of Lou Pirlo, a city-slick …
Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out.