Tak! quoted City of Pearl by Karen Traviss
Governments had always made use of cheap, effective terrorism when it suited them.
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Governments had always made use of cheap, effective terrorism when it suited them.
But she was damned if one more agricorporation was going to tell her what she could plant and grow and eat.
I’m an old-fashioned girl. I like my computing in my pocket.
The bot was immune to the snow, and so was Aras.
… it’s a perfectly useless hobby, exactly what I was missing in my life.
Content warning mild spoiler, ~50%
“Such a handsome man,” she murmured, her hand rather lower than Cliopher liked, from a sea-witch so early in the morning.
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There was nothing quite so restorative, in Cliopher's opinion, as taking a muddled mess and slowly, methodically, turning it to order.
Code refactoring mood
The bells of the Palace of Stars were barely audible outside its walls.
Just realized I forgot #OpeningSentence
I did not find peace. She does not travel with armies.
Hi lovely folk,
I am surprised and delighted to say that my novel The Beautiful Decay is up for various awards at the Queer Indie Awards!
If you enjoyed it, it would mean a lot if you'd vote for it. 💙
Discoverability is incredibly difficult as a self-published author and awards can be a big help.
Voting closes 26th Jan!
For some reason, the concept of an author being a real person you might bump into on your way down the street seemed impossible to imagine.
I'm sure lots of people had it with twitter, but I first experienced this feeling when authors whose books I'd read started interacting with me on the fediverse
“Eighteen!” bellowed Viv, bringing her saber around in a flat curve that battered the wight’s skull off its spine.
I enjoyed the setting, and some of the substories were compelling, but as a whole it was too rambling and incohesive for me.
I feel like it would have worked better as a series of stories about different people from the same village or whatever instead of repeatedly being like "despite being in the middle of this incredibly urgent life crisis, the main character decides to spend six months teaching an older woman to fold laundry" or "despite having a very bad outcome two chapters ago, the main character decides to engage in exactly the same dangerous behavior with no additional precautions"