trochee started reading The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Carlota Moreau: a young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from …
Faced out at KCLS & recommended by so many of my favorite writers
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trochee finished reading Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #3)
"For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used …
Anti imperialism at its SF oddity best
Nothing about Breq/Justice of Toren is something that would make them an action hero
And Seivarden is somewhere between a damsel in distress and a Regency (anti?)hero
But they are both my heroes now, though I still don't fully trust Seivarden — I don't think anybody really does, including Seivarden themselves
I still want to know more about the Irran Tetrarchy; what did Breq do there and who is the saint
Anti imperialism at its SF oddity best
Nothing about Breq/Justice of Toren is something that would make them an action hero
And Seivarden is somewhere between a damsel in distress and a Regency (anti?)hero
But they are both my heroes now, though I still don't fully trust Seivarden — I don't think anybody really does, including Seivarden themselves
I still want to know more about the Irran Tetrarchy; what did Breq do there and who is the saint
trochee finished reading Entropy by Aaron Costain
Aaron Costain: Entropy (2018)
Follow a golem with a surprisingly modern sensibility and an even more modern sense of …
Did not love this
trochee finished reading Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Sword is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ann Leckie, published in October 2014. It is the …
trochee reviewed Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Sword is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ann Leckie, published in …
A Regency mystery and a revolution
5 stars
I really like the politics and the interpersonal drama of this distant future space opera
... And this novel, the second, doors much less with the collective first person, and so would actual be much easier to stage as theater
But the first book would be a better opera
trochee started reading Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Sword is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ann Leckie, published in …
No wait, Sword is the second book.
trochee started reading Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #3)
"For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used …
Rolling into the second book in the trilogy because the first one makes me want to sign up for Fleet Commander Breq Miannai's service
Rolling into the second book in the trilogy because the first one makes me want to sign up for Fleet Commander Breq Miannai's service
trochee reviewed Entropy by Aaron Costain
Aaron Costain: Entropy (2018)
Follow a golem with a surprisingly modern sensibility and an even more modern sense of …
A trippy piece of folk art
3 stars
Packed evenly but a little too sparsely with mythology and symbolism it feels like a book that is very proud of its own opacity.
Good art, lots of multi-mythological transitions, but isn't quite a story exactly. Reminds me of someone trying to describe their dream, which is interesting but ultimately might be a waste of time or a Prophecy and it's sort of... neither?
Packed evenly but a little too sparsely with mythology and symbolism it feels like a book that is very proud of its own opacity.
Good art, lots of multi-mythological transitions, but isn't quite a story exactly. Reminds me of someone trying to describe their dream, which is interesting but ultimately might be a waste of time or a Prophecy and it's sort of... neither?
@eldang@outside.ofa.dog right?!
trochee rated Songs for the Dead TPB Vol. 1: 2 stars
trochee finished reading Songs for the Dead TPB Vol. 1 by Andrea Fort
Cute premise, disappointing execution.
trochee finished reading Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she …
trochee reviewed Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing …
The truest heir to The Forever War, Leviathan, and the Dialectics
5 stars
What a great book.
Heard there was going to be a TV series but it fell apart.
What they should do is an opera. I can't really imagine another way to express the first person anti-singular voice that the whole book uses.
Plus One Esk loves to sing
What a great book.
Heard there was going to be a TV series but it fell apart.
What they should do is an opera. I can't really imagine another way to express the first person anti-singular voice that the whole book uses.
Plus One Esk loves to sing
trochee started reading Entropy by Aaron Costain
Aaron Costain: Entropy (2018)
Follow a golem with a surprisingly modern sensibility and an even more modern sense of …
Random find at KCLS
trochee finished reading Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee (The Machineries of Empire, #3.5)
The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit.
An ex-Kel …
For a sequence of stories about a genocidal maniac, surprisingly reassuring