Soh Kam Yung finished reading The River Judge by S. L. Huang
The River Judge by S. L. Huang
In this prequel novelette to the critically acclaimed THE WATER OUTLAWS, nine-year-old Li Li is introduced to a web of …
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In this prequel novelette to the critically acclaimed THE WATER OUTLAWS, nine-year-old Li Li is introduced to a web of …
An interesting book, set as a series of stories as 'retold' by the author of his childhood in a small Swedish town that was host to a powerful underground particle accelerator known to the locals as the Loop. In the alternative past, powerful magnetic based technology has given rise to levitating transporters, walking robots and other sources of energy. But it has also given rise to various myths, like wormholes created by the Loop that let rumoured creatures like dinosaurs roam the present.
But all is not well. The stresses of living just above a machine that might twist reality causes social and communal problems (like divorce and family violence). The author's tales talk about these problems, as well as the times the author and his friends played among the debris that littered the landscape from the building and, later, decommissioning of the Loop.
The illustrations and sketches in the …
An interesting book, set as a series of stories as 'retold' by the author of his childhood in a small Swedish town that was host to a powerful underground particle accelerator known to the locals as the Loop. In the alternative past, powerful magnetic based technology has given rise to levitating transporters, walking robots and other sources of energy. But it has also given rise to various myths, like wormholes created by the Loop that let rumoured creatures like dinosaurs roam the present.
But all is not well. The stresses of living just above a machine that might twist reality causes social and communal problems (like divorce and family violence). The author's tales talk about these problems, as well as the times the author and his friends played among the debris that littered the landscape from the building and, later, decommissioning of the Loop.
The illustrations and sketches in the book give a good impression of the landscape the author imagines playing in, full of life and the unusual machines that make up the author's 'childhood'.
A road trip through a landscape littered with the debris of robots and mechanical creatures from an unsaid war, while most of humanity is apparently too preoccupied wearing headsets and living in a virtual world to the point of starvation. Said road trip is by a girl and her 'pet' robot that behaves in a rather unrobotic way. The reason for this, and the purpose of the road trip, only becomes clear at the end when the girl (also the narrator) provides the reason.
The book is filled with illustrations from the road trip, of a landscape where robots roam at will and emaciated people gawk in wonder through their headsets.
A fantastic exploration of an alternative biology. In our world, the cells in an organism belong to it: attempts to directly transfer cells from one organism to another usually result in rejection by the immune system. But in this story, groups of cell (cytes) communicate with each other and with other cells to determine their course of action. Given the right signals, the cells can decide as a group to, for example, leave a person for another person which provides a better environment.
The story starts with two main characters: one who wakes up with parts of her body missing, her cells deciding to leave her for unknown reasons, leading her to become a researcher stuying how cytes communicate and decide on their roles in people's bodies. The other is a Swapper, a person who actively seeks out others to exchange their cytes, hoping to find a better combination of …
A fantastic exploration of an alternative biology. In our world, the cells in an organism belong to it: attempts to directly transfer cells from one organism to another usually result in rejection by the immune system. But in this story, groups of cell (cytes) communicate with each other and with other cells to determine their course of action. Given the right signals, the cells can decide as a group to, for example, leave a person for another person which provides a better environment.
The story starts with two main characters: one who wakes up with parts of her body missing, her cells deciding to leave her for unknown reasons, leading her to become a researcher stuying how cytes communicate and decide on their roles in people's bodies. The other is a Swapper, a person who actively seeks out others to exchange their cytes, hoping to find a better combination of cytes that may eventually let them live as Flourishers, a group of people whose cytes cooperate so well that they can live for hundreds of years.
Both would eventually meet, in unusual circumstances, when the research leads to the discovery of a set of signals that can persuade the cytes to change their roles. But danger lurks, for there is another group that wants to use the research for their own purposes and are not above using murder to stop others.
Through the characters, we get to see how people live in this world, where evolution has lead to a world that looks much like our own: but on the level of cells, groups of them can decide to migrate to another body, or even change their role in the body. This has repercussions in the act of reproduction, but you'll have to read the story to discover how this happens in this alternate world.
Going to your friend's family for a Christmas gathering for the first time may make you anxious. But the anxiety level only goes through the roof (literally) when you discover your friend's unusual 'tradition' that must be performed for peace to return to the family.
In this prequel novelette to the critically acclaimed THE WATER OUTLAWS, nine-year-old Li Li is introduced to a web of …
In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator. The facility was complete in 1969, …
"No one buys [their] books" a report on the big publisher's court testimony.
wow:
"The DOJ’s lawyer collected data on 58,000 titles published in a year and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies. "
Yet, they sue to make sure libraries can not buy them (above and beyond copyright). They changed the laws so copyright lasts 95 years-- so no one can get to them.
good stewards of our cultural legacy?
In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator. The facility was complete in 1969, …
In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator. The facility was complete in 1969, …
In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where …
Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest in peace while …
Today we officially switched @thedeadlands subscriptions to quarterly mode, adjusted prices for the new format, and notified existing subscribers accordingly: https://weightlessbooks.com/the-deadlands-12-month-subscription/
Their announcement about it also has good, important stuff about the realities of indie publishing: https://thedeadlands.com/blog/a-very-2024-the-deadlands-update/
In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where …
In a world where the cells that make up our bodies are not committed to any one organism, Marla is …