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Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
Okay, that wrapped up pretty decently, with all the genre storylines twisting around each other. Overall, really liked it!
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
I am nervous about how the things resolve! It is good!
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
Not even halfway through and this book is already destroying me in the best way, and oops new characters are getting some development! I was not prepared.
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
The plot thickens! I am worried
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
Umm wow I love all these characters and feel fiercely protective of them already they are all so good and deserve so much better and they'd better damn well get it
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful …
It's already very good!
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
If you're willing to trade your email and are in the US and Canada, until tomorrow (end-of-day Eastern Time on May 6), you can trade your email at ebookclub.tor.com/ for a ebook collection that includes this novella. If you bounced off of Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, this is a great way to give Becky Chambers a second try, which I encourage folks to do! I've read all of her books, and Long Way is by far my least favorite.
This book is a totally new series set on some sort of future-Earth-analog, and the hopeful eco-solarpunk warm-cup-of-tea post-apocalypse world is a perspective I didn't know I was missing until I read it. Highly recommended, and if you hate it, hey, it's only 160 pages.
And speaking generally: I find Chambers' writing (especially after Long Way) to be hopeful and optimistic without being cloying or insubstantial, which is …
If you're willing to trade your email and are in the US and Canada, until tomorrow (end-of-day Eastern Time on May 6), you can trade your email at ebookclub.tor.com/ for a ebook collection that includes this novella. If you bounced off of Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, this is a great way to give Becky Chambers a second try, which I encourage folks to do! I've read all of her books, and Long Way is by far my least favorite.
This book is a totally new series set on some sort of future-Earth-analog, and the hopeful eco-solarpunk warm-cup-of-tea post-apocalypse world is a perspective I didn't know I was missing until I read it. Highly recommended, and if you hate it, hey, it's only 160 pages.
And speaking generally: I find Chambers' writing (especially after Long Way) to be hopeful and optimistic without being cloying or insubstantial, which is a hard balance to strike. In Wayfarers, her non-human societies/creatures (and there are a lot!) are fascinating on a personal level in a way that is missing from a lot that I read, and do an good job of not just being "humans with antennae".
And other than Long Way, Wayfarers are all totally independent, so you can pick up whichever strikes your fancy and pick up the others in whatever order you like. And you don't even have to read Long Way first - just avoid Closed and Common Orbit if you don't want a big character spoiler for Long Way, everything else is pretty loosely coupled.
Read this for Hugo book club. I liked this better than Elatsoe, but still not my favorite, for similar reasons. I think I've been spoiled by the writing in really good YA maybe. It's a fine story, and I did appreciate getting into a mythology I'm not familiar with, which really is where this book shines, but the writing and especially the real-world bits fell flat for me.
It just keeps being wild and out there in very good ways! My hold is up, so gonna stop here and pick up at Part III later probs
Damn, this worldbuilding just keeps going! I'm loving it
A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces …
Wow. I don't know exactly how I feel about this book, except that it's a lot. Certainly like nothing I've read before, and full of so much that refuses to be categorized. I guess no one is likely to come into this book expecting a light read, and it is not. It's about three complicated people and their failures, triumphs, griefs, uncertainties, inconsistencies, desires, hopes. And a whole lot of gender.
A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces …
Like, I knew this book was going to be trans, obviously, but damn. I wasn't expecting it to go this hard.
More specifically: overwhelmingly trans-femme, trauma like woah, characters that are messy as heck, in a way that feels very close, hewn to the messy reality that is coping with a world that doesn't want you to exist, not shying away from the many ways that we find to make do and survive.
A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces …
This book is...phew, it is a lot, in a good way.
A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces …
This one has been on my pile for a while, and I finally got around to it on a particularly gendery day
"In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the …
Came across this in a bookstore and had too many other books already, but leaving it here cause it seems maybe interesting!