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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The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's …
Mostly I'm posting this comment to see if Bookwyrm adds it to my "currently reading" feed. This platform is still kind of buggy so I'm trying to figure out how to make it behave.
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.
If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, then Henry Kissinger is the …
Great so far, but dark. I keep taking fiction breaks.
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.
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it …
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.
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
"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
Great conclusion to Omnibus 1. Masterful storytelling and art.
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.
Noah Charney, Svetlana Slapsak: Slavic Myths (2023, Thames & Hudson)
Overview and intro to Slavic Myths and their mythological ethnography