Raconteur, bon-vivant, man-about-town. Book nerd.
Mostly just keeping track of what I've been reading for myself, but always interested in what like-minded souls enjoy when I stumble across their online traces.
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Not just a compelling read on the whole "what is human" SF trope but also a VERY insightful expression of what it is like to be autistic.
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. …
At this point we really start to see the character arc for murderbot starting, which creates a great basis for the series.
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris …
Engaging, moved along well. The series is starting to feel a little formulaic but I'll read the next one. The exploration of different aspects of "what does it mean to be a bot" is compelling, Miki is a great character.
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
I am reminded of one comment I read some time ago from somebody talking about machine intelligence - tehy weren't so much interested in what art a machine would make for humans, but what they would make for one another. To some extent, this series explores that.
Imagine a book about a coming of age story starting with the death of a young Black/ Filipina victim of Robert Pickton & her journey into becoming a revenge monster from Filipino mythology. This is that book
Overview and intro to Slavic Myths and their mythological ethnography
A very good overview and intro to Slavic myths from an ethnographic perspective. Some questionable conclusions but nothing too egregious considering it's really meant to be a very broad introduction.
First half was great, second half was more familiar so I wasn't as thrilled by the retelling, having already heard it in so many voices. Still, Fry is witty and thorough; he does for Greek mythology what Gaiman did for Norse.
