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Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory is a short story set just after Exit Strategy. Home …
Tiny short story. Just a taste to get back into the Murderbot world
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory is a short story set just after Exit Strategy. Home is told from Dr. Mensah’s …
The second fabulously funny short story collection from the late acclaimed storyteller Terry Pratchett. New …
Silly and not especially excellent early Pratchett, in which can be seen the embryos of the Watch, the Witches, and the Feegles stories
Reading this in a group at work
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork …
Not as fun as the other Lipwick stories. Still, nice to see the goblins making a return
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased …
Reminded of this by @anthrocypher@hachyderm.io
Took me a while to read, because of conflicts and limited time, but wow I'm glad I did.
Absolutely a new contender for 21c cyberpunk in the spirit of Gibson, but with M. Older's deft assembly of a heist without a single cishet or thoroughly white person except possibly a few members (and the leader?) of the death cult
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork …
"Excuse me, sir, but if you wanted to you could shut down the papers, couldn't you? And forbid the train and put anyone you like in prison, yes?"
Still staring down at the city, Lord Vetinari said, "My dear Mister Lipwig, you are clever and certainly smart but you have yet to find the virtue of wisdom, and wisdom tells a powerful prince that firstly he shouldn't put just anyone he likes in prison, because that is where he puts the people he doesn't like, and secondly…
— Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #40) (25%)
Vetinari can be a pedant when he chooses
Writer, filmmaker, and organizer Astra Taylor takes a curious, critical, and ultimately hopeful look at …
Recommended by @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork …
Oh no this might be the last one but the Tiffany Aching books and I'll have to put them all down again until the 2030s
When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat …
Recommended by @kissane@mas.to !
Recommended by (among others) @vaurora@wandering.shop
It starts with whispers.
Then someone picks up a stone.
Finally, the fires begin.
When …
Reading with kid at bedtime.
Tiffany Aching accidentally starts to transform into an anthropomorphic representation of Summer, due to her …
Finally finished this book with kid at bedtime.
