Bookwyrm alt for @lordbowlich@hackers.town
Exploring the reaches of the fediverse.
Largely reading from The Beats, Science Fiction, Japanese Literature, Mythology and Folklore, Philosophy (largely Metaphysics these days), Dharma Books, Software Engineering and a variety of books from Anarchist and/or Leftist leaning authors.
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"Le titre du livre : La Conquête du Pain doit être pris dans le sens le plus large, car « …
A 1921 Soviet science-fiction classic involves the adventures of space travelers Los and Gusev, who discover an ancient civilization on …
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as a trenchant book, full of vigor …
They pretty much just recycled the plot from Abaddon's Gate but put it on a remote alien planet instead.
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings …
It’s just an everyday apocalypse.
Three years ago the aliens invaded Tokyo.
Nothing was ever the same again.
But after …
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and …
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken …
Don't miss this moving, critically acclaimed classic manga (which inspired the anime) about an android running a coffee shop in …
Don't miss this moving, critically acclaimed classic manga (which inspired the anime) about an android …
Wow. What a beautiful dreamy manga. It's just pure atmosphere. Climate change eating away at the landscape and flooding cities. Populations declining and being replaced by robots. And yet people go on with their lives. Growing watermelons, driving around decaying concrete roads with electric mopeds, sharing their food, and generally being kind of keeping an eye out for one another. It very #solarpunk.
(Mistakenly thought it was 3 volumes, but turns out it's 5! And the last two don't come until next year!)
A good light read, finished in two evenings and will probably want to revisit with a deeper understanding of the Zapatistas. It does serve as a good, light, introduction.
The stories themselves are clever, and witty. The types of things worthy of using as a starting piece for a dialogue.
For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's …
I recall the TV series loosing a lot of steam around this point, and the third book is even worse since it's 550 pages for a scenario that would have been a handful of chapters in Leviathan Wakes.
Ashford is an unacceptably shallow villain.
