trochee started reading The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell
Non fiction about magical thinking
Looking forward to this
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trochee finished reading The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
Definitely a debut novel; feels sort of like a handbasket full of plots, mostly strung together
Feels like the missing volume in the middle of SEVENEVES, though, in a lot of ways that Stephenson could learn from (but won't)
trochee started reading The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
I still believe that libraries are a flowering of a free republic. Thank you White Center KCLS
trochee finished reading Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #3)
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death …
Another sweet romance book about broken paladins — this one gay. Full of darkly funny T. Kingfisher gnole humor that is very much reminiscent of DIGGER.
Like the other (straight) romances in this series, hot and sweet.
trochee wants to read Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald (Library of American fiction)
A chillingly calm first person account of Armageddon, from the point of view of a …
Recommended by Amy H Sturgis on Starship Sofa
trochee wants to read The Spaceship Next Door by Gene Doucette
Three years after a spaceship landed in Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, a government operative comes to …
Heard a short story on LIGHTSPEED by this author
"Rrthing it up: an oral history" feels like an anti-colonial Hitchhikers Guide, from the point of view of the Vogons
trochee wants to read AI Mirror by Shannon Vallor
Seen on somebody's LinkedIn, I'm somewhat embarrassed to say
trochee finished reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey
A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation …
This is not a novel.
It's much closer to a series of essays about personal, global, and transcendental experience, framed around six people in the ISS.
Much more like a Sagan essay suite or How Far The Light Reaches.
trochee wants to read Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #3)
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death …
Oh, I enjoyed the first two of these; I should read this
trochee wants to read The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …
I got a copy, signed by the authors.
trochee started reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey
A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation …
Reminds me of a book I read in the nineties called Einstein's Dreams, weirdly
Science as opportunity to experience poetry
trochee wants to read Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes
Recommended by @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
trochee wants to read Unfamiliar by Haley Newsome
Recommended by @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
trochee wants to read We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse, #1)
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life …
Recommended by @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
trochee wants to read Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (duplicate)
From Arthur C. Clarke and Hugo Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic that …
Recommended by @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone