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In a post-nuclear event Silicon Valley, a man grieving the loss of his wife struggles to find comfort when he …
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In a post-nuclear event Silicon Valley, a man grieving the loss of his wife struggles to find comfort when he …
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Niall Harrison Reviews Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang https://locusmag.com/2024/04/niall-harrison-reviews-jumpnauts-by-hao-jingfang/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-RSS
In this prequel novelette to the critically acclaimed THE WATER OUTLAWS, nine-year-old Li Li is …
An interesting story of a young girl who helps her mother and father run an inn by the river. Only, she and her mother do all the hard work of keeping the inn running while the father does other 'monetary activities' and they have to clean up after him.
That cleaning up includes getting rid of the corpses of officials and others that the father kills to prevent them interfering with his business of making money. Resentment builds up in the girl when she sees her father been flattered by the villagers while she and her mother are ignored.
But it all comes to a head when a ghost appears and exposes the whole operation. And now, the girl must act in the only way she can to save the business, even if it means being mean to her father.
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Explore @garykwolfe’s review of THE DEAD CAT TAIL ASSASSINS by @pdjeliclark: “Clark is adept at balancing his central mystery with quirky character development and enough witty details…” https://locusmag.com/2024/04/gary-k-wolfe-reviews-the-dead-cat-tail-assassins-by-p-djeli-clark/
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WINNER of the 2021 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards!
The first full-length novel in Martha …
Part of what I love about reading the Murderbot books is the sampler-box of competency porn. SecUnit themselves is a high tech assassin/RoboCop, ART is immensely clever, and all of Preservation is just chock-full of emotional and social intelligence, with all the Preservation humans demonstrating empathy, compassion, humility and emotional honesty.
I want to be adopted by Preservation. SecUnit is thus a tender combination of ruthless protector and vulnerable child — and so are the people of Preservation, in almost entirely complementary circumstances. it's so satisfying to see each of them displaying their competencies to protect each other.
It's genuinely a relationship novel, but without pair-bonding, jealousy, or sex — two different systems that need each other, in a long slow burn of trying to be together and be different at the same time.
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Viv’s career with the renowned mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during …
Sometimes you need something cozy and heartwarming where a dwarf and an orc can fall in love over pastries and 'moist' books. These books are the literary equivalent of a comfortable chair in front of a cheerful fire with a good story in your hand and a mug of coffee and some sweet treat on the table beside you while a pleasant rain tinkles to the ground outside. Cozy and warm and lovely.
Of course, now I need to immediately re-read Legends and Lattes.
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Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark https://locusmag.com/2024/04/gary-k-wolfe-reviews-the-dead-cat-tail-assassins-by-p-djeli-clark/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-RSS
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Paul Di Filippo Reviews A View from the Stars by Cixin Liu https://locusmag.com/2024/04/paul-di-filippo-reviews-a-view-from-the-stars-by-cixin-liu/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-RSS
An eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning author of Eager . Some 40 …
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 …
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'.
In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through …
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.
