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From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the …
This book continues to be even more itself. Such a chaotic and unmatched mix of so many things, and I love it.
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the …
Tearing through this book, what a ride
For context: one of the (valid!) criticisms of the first three books was the seeming dismissal of vast swaths of the world (notably most of Africa) as backwards "reservations" used only as an outlet for spiritual pilgrimages.
I've been patient, because as I tell folks when introducing these books to people, the narrators are unreliable, morally as well as plotwise: the tale reflects the society whose lessons we are learning.
It's deeply important to me to for authors to be able to tell stories about morally complicated or downright bankrupt characters and societies without having to explicitly spell out the ways in which they are Bad and Wrong, to let us as readers make our own judgments and moral decisions, without assigning those judgments to the author themselves.
It's a risky line to walk, but I think if executed well, it's so valuable.
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the …
She gazes on Caesar as the head of a hospital gazes on a colleague wooed by giddy innovators to test out a new procedure which might work, might revolutionize treatment, first signs are good, but it takes many years to understand the lifelong effects, and whether the new method works or no, the old-fashioned one still saves lives daily as we wait to learn whether this particular experiment is part of that slim percentage that succeeds.
— Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #4) (Page 296)
I am cautiously SO excited to finally start peeking behind the curtain of these "reservations". I've had faith in you, Ada, here's hoping it pays off
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the …
Got my paperback just in time for the longest chapter yet, half again as long as any previous, and my god, how is there still half of this book left?? Where are you taking me, Ada??
(It continues to be very strange and very good)
This is the sentence I was reading as my girlfriend next to me giggled in delight at her much lighter read. Quite the tonal contrast happening in this room 😅
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the …
His roar, reader, as when the foaming torrent bursts its banks, swelled by the spring thaw coursing down the mountainside, and on the water rushes, no hope, no remedy, erasing all our works, the well-tilled fields, the orchards, years of labor swallowed into nothing, just so I felt oblivion's inexorable yawn in Caesar's roar, and Death's behind it.
— Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #4) (39%)
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book …
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are …
Read the last 70 pages in one sitting, which is notable for me these days. A fitting conclusion to this chaotic book, looming forward to finishing the series!
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are …
Phew, what an opener...here we go!
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are …
Finally picking this series back up, just accidentally stayed up reading it until 3am after settling in at midnight for a quick chapter 😅
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of …
@mouse@bookwyrm.social Yessssss I love this series in general, and this one specifically! Love Piper.
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of …
