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Checking this out! I don't read fast but I am consistent :D

For work I read a lot of scientific papers so sadly I don't have too much energy to come home and read much of the political stuff that is still on my wish list. So there will probably be quite a lot of (science) fiction ...

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Alfred Bester: The Star's My Destination, Volume 1 (Paperback, 1979, Baronet Pub.) No rating

This is the book that inspired Micheal Moorcock to write SF which made me curious. In his own words: "It was Alfred Bester who first attracted me to science fiction. I'd read some fantasy and Edgar Rice Burroughs before that, but I thought that if The Stars My Destination (also called Tiger! Tiger!) was sf, then this was the fiction for me. It took me some years to realise that Bester was one of the few exceptions. " - Michael Moorcock in 'Starship Stormtroopers' (libcom.org/article/starship-stormtroopers-michael-moorcock)

Yemisi Ilesanmi: Freedom to Love for ALL (2013, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) No rating

Glad I read this. The entire book is basically a compilation of several angry rants. Not in a bad way, she (as an openly and activist bisexual Nigerian) has a good reason to be angry and particularly at the time of writing & publication which was when the Nigerian 'same sex marriage prohibition' bill was first proposed there. It was signed into law on January 7th 2014. It criminalises not only being gay, but also looking like you might be gay in public (including platonically holding hands or hugging or cohabiting with someone from the same sex) but also means that any family who support you are made criminal and that it is illegal to have legal representation in court for any issue that might be interpreted as in any way one about gender and sexuality.

I am glad I read it because I think it's important to remember that …

replied to Hippo's status

@badrihippo@biblio.thekambattu.rocks Yeah it was a shame. I love the authors' antifascist podcast so I had really high hopes. And indeed, the reference list is very interesting. Also they do mention one or two groups I hadn't put into the eco-fascist context yet myself which is arguably good as well as that they explicitly call the primitivists like Zerzan out on their BS which is something many more people should be doing imo. So I do appreciate that.