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City of Roses is a serialized epic very firmly set in Portland, Oregon, only with more sword fights--an urban fantasy …
WINNER of the 2021 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards!
The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and …
Recommended by Transfer Orbit
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …
Recommended by Transfer Orbit
WINNER of the 2021 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards!
The first full-length novel in Martha …
Part of what I love about reading the Murderbot books is the sampler-box of competency porn. SecUnit themselves is a high tech assassin/RoboCop, ART is immensely clever, and all of Preservation is just chock-full of emotional and social intelligence, with all the Preservation humans demonstrating empathy, compassion, humility and emotional honesty.
I want to be adopted by Preservation. SecUnit is thus a tender combination of ruthless protector and vulnerable child — and so are the people of Preservation, in almost entirely complementary circumstances. it's so satisfying to see each of them displaying their competencies to protect each other.
It's genuinely a relationship novel, but without pair-bonding, jealousy, or sex — two different systems that need each other, in a long slow burn of trying to be together and be different at the same time.
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory is a short story set just after Exit Strategy. Home …
Tiny short story. Just a taste to get back into the Murderbot world
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory is a short story set just after Exit Strategy. Home is told from Dr. Mensah’s …
The second fabulously funny short story collection from the late acclaimed storyteller Terry Pratchett. New …
Silly and not especially excellent early Pratchett, in which can be seen the embryos of the Watch, the Witches, and the Feegles stories
Reading this in a group at work
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork …
Not as fun as the other Lipwick stories. Still, nice to see the goblins making a return
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased …
Reminded of this by @anthrocypher@hachyderm.io
Took me a while to read, because of conflicts and limited time, but wow I'm glad I did.
Absolutely a new contender for 21c cyberpunk in the spirit of Gibson, but with M. Older's deft assembly of a heist without a single cishet or thoroughly white person except possibly a few members (and the leader?) of the death cult
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork …
"Excuse me, sir, but if you wanted to you could shut down the papers, couldn't you? And forbid the train and put anyone you like in prison, yes?"
Still staring down at the city, Lord Vetinari said, "My dear Mister Lipwig, you are clever and certainly smart but you have yet to find the virtue of wisdom, and wisdom tells a powerful prince that firstly he shouldn't put just anyone he likes in prison, because that is where he puts the people he doesn't like, and secondly…
— Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #40) (25%)
Vetinari can be a pedant when he chooses
