Mostly scifi and fantasy, but also a fair amount of natural history with a smattering of political economy and other non-fiction.
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"Set in an alternate world of art deco beauty and steampunk horror, Monstress tells the …
Beautiful, layered. Gets better every time I read it.
When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole …
Charming novella. Think I would have appreciated it more at 14 than I do now, but definitely a fun afternoon read.
This book is a lovely character study, but the main takeaway is that England is a miserable place tearing itself to pieces
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Re-read this in 2022 after nearly 20 years. It felt less cool and more annoying this time. All the characters were trying to be so cool & badass that it was hard to follow what was going on. The first time I read this I felt like the characters were just reticent and mysterious. This go round they just felt thin.
Interesting how physical the conception of cyberspace is in this book. Case makes a big deal of how he's leaving meatspace behind, doesn't care about his body. But every metaphor of cyberspace is physical, 3d - the way it looks, the way you move through it. Our internet is much more disembodying than this cyberspace. Don't even need to "jack in" - just a few minutes scrolling on your phone and you've all but forgotten your body exists.
It's also deeply unclear why cyberspace even exists, what the point …
Re-read this in 2022 after nearly 20 years. It felt less cool and more annoying this time. All the characters were trying to be so cool & badass that it was hard to follow what was going on. The first time I read this I felt like the characters were just reticent and mysterious. This go round they just felt thin.
Interesting how physical the conception of cyberspace is in this book. Case makes a big deal of how he's leaving meatspace behind, doesn't care about his body. But every metaphor of cyberspace is physical, 3d - the way it looks, the way you move through it. Our internet is much more disembodying than this cyberspace. Don't even need to "jack in" - just a few minutes scrolling on your phone and you've all but forgotten your body exists.
It's also deeply unclear why cyberspace even exists, what the point and function of it is, especially compared to the internet.
Also, for a world run by corporations, public transit is in remarkably good order.
Fantasy novel by Sarah Monette under the pseudonym Katherine Addison.
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few Steersmen, are members of an …
342, [1] p. : 18 cm
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) …
An impulsive word can start a war. A timely word can stop one. A simple …
Really enjoyed the beginning of this book, but quite annoyed and exasperated by the end. Only Cliopher gets any real fleshing out in the whole book and the book is a real hagiography of that character, complete with sermons from our saint. Confuses status and power and is embarrassingly obsessed with status.
It was gentle and kind, though, and well written enough to carry me through the whole book!
Beautiful and subtle character studies. Powerful subversion of the typical quest story. Allegorical, even mythological, while still managing to feel immediate.
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Kell is one of the last travelers--magicians with …
