@catship I think her Hugo-winning short story, "Cat Pictures Please", clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/, is an essential complement to said book. (I haven't read the novel yet but it's On The List!)
User Profile
Hi there! I'm Matt. I'm a Site Reliability Engineer in San Francisco. I like *punk: #cyberpunk, #steampunk, #solarpunk...
This link opens in a pop-up window
M@'s books
Currently Reading
User Activity
RSS feed Back
M@
boosted
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's …
A woman standing next to me has a moldy radish that she must have brought just for this moment, and she flings it at one of the riot cops in front of us.
— The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
I bookmarked this passage to post later, and now is later.. it still makes me smile.
M@ wants to read Eclipse of the crescent moon by Gárdonyi, Géza
Eclipse of the crescent moon by Gárdonyi, Géza
In 1541,the crown of Hungary is up for grabs. King John, seeing that the Austrians were attacking with an innumerable …
@LizAndra Another excellent audio experience for this book is Sir Patrick Stewart's one-person show!
M@
boosted
moving to outside.ofa.dog replied to moving to outside.ofa.dog's status
I like how Gussie's obsession with newts is supposed to be The Most Boring Thing Ever, but every time he goes off on a tangent about them my reaction is "please tell me more, this is much more interesting than your upper class twit friends are".
M@ quoted A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (Scholomance, #1)
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure …
But hope is good strong drink, especially when you can get someone else to buy it for you.
— A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (Scholomance, #1) (Page 260)
\
M@ quoted The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #2)
Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning …
I did try saying things like, “I won’t bite,” only I said it while seething, so the message that actually got conveyed was that biting would be mild by comparison with whatever I would do instead.
— The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #2) (Page 150)
This line of dialog, with the pronouns slightly shifted to get the POV characters right, would work in a Wodehouse novel describing an interaction between Bertie Wooster and Rodrick Spode.
Scholomance
M@ wants to read Lote by Shola von Reinhold
Lote by Shola von Reinhold
Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics …
M@ rated The Last Graduate: 5 stars
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #2)
Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning sequel to the ground-breaking, Sunday …
M@ rated The Golden Enclaves: 5 stars
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (Scholomance, #3)
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. …
M@ rated A Deadly Education: 5 stars
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (Scholomance, #1)
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) …
M@ rated SUMMARY of Book Lovers by Emily Henry: 5 stars
M@ rated Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall): 5 stars
Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall) by Walter Jon Williams
The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- …
M@ rated The sundering: 5 stars
The sundering by Walter Jon Williams (Dread empire's fall)
The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive …
