Reviews and Comments

Blade of Dream is a very good sequel to Age of Ash. Instead of continuing the events from the previous book, it tells the story of different characters during the same time period. There are only a few points where events overlap, so it doesn't give that "ugh, I'm just reading a different flavor of the same story again" feeling that you can get from this approach.

I found it especially interesting that one of the main characters in Blade of Dream was a very marginal character in Age of Ash that one of the narrative characters had dismissed as a silly girl with no real agency (and thus the reader implicitly seeing her that way as well), and seeing the stark contrast here.

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This is eldritch horror without the Cthulhu. It is weird and obscure and extremely obsessed with architectural minutiae. It rambles quite a bit in the middle, but that's honestly consistent with the tone of the world.

I feel like I don't know enough about architecture to read this book

So pleased to see THE IMPOSITION OF UNNECESSARY OBSTACLES on this Esquire list of the best SFF of 2024 💜💙💜 especially for a sequel, it's an amazing honor!

www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g60078949/best-sci-fi-books-2024/

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The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain is a deeply dark yet eventually hopeful look at the continuation of current societal structures into space.

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A great combination scifi thriller / space whodunit. It's much more Serious than The Stardust Grail, but explores some similar themes, e.g. betrayal and loss.

The Archive Undying is a kind of postapocalyptic fantasy kaiju novel that (d?)evolves into a philosophical treatise on the nature of the self. It's entertaining and extremely well written, but I got plot twist exhaustion after a while.

The #SFFBookClub pick for December 2024

A story about friendship, betrayal, and the aftereffects of colonization (in space!) with heists.

The aliens are alien, there's some interesting exploration of wormholes and first contact dynamics, and the action is engaging and unpredictable.

COVER REVEAL! It's my next book, "Automatic Noodle," a cozy, near-future story about a group of food service bots in an abandoned ghost kitchen who take over their own delivery app account. They rebrand as a neighborhood lunch spot, and start making tasty hand-pulled noodles. Set in San Francisco after a horrible war, this is about rebuilding and finding love after political disaster.

Coming 8.5.25!⁣ Please pre-order! us.macmillan.com/books/9781250357465/automaticnoodle ⁣> Art by Eric Nyquist ⁣ Design by Christine Foltzer

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Rereading this with L for the first time since learning danish: Oh haha, he named the bear guy Beorn

Another great Tchaikovsky take on the truly alien, this time with added revolutionary fervor. If you like near-to-mid-future scifi rooted in existing social issues and aliens that aren't just humans with weird foreheads, Alien Clay is for you!

Hello readerfolk!

My slice-of-life space fantasy novella, Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew, is now officially published and out in the wild!

Like all of my books, it's DRM-free and available from a variety of sellers in both digital and paperback formats. Please do check it out. :dragon_heart:

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AK Press has made 6 e-books free to download for a limited period: www.akpress.org/featured-products/featured-topic-free-ebook.html

• Practicing New Worlds - Abolition and Emergent Strategies
• Street Rebellion - Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
• No Pasarán! - Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis
• The Operating System - An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
• Joyful Militancy - Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
• Emergent Strategy - Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

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