I love how Evan Currie in his "Odyssey One" #book#series seems to have embraced the memes of humans as space orcs, because another description of it I would say is WTAF-as-a-Series 🤣
They have various adventures, that often are of the "the what now?" variety, and actions and results of the main character are usually met with "they did WHAT?!" reaction by enemies, and often allies 😂
Highly recommend! #reading#SciFi@bookstodon
The gender flipped 1950's style matriarchy was the least interesting part of the book. Kind of heavy-handed, it nonetheless set a good background for societal change. Throw in some love stories and overbearing parents, and you've got a solid YA SciFi novel. I did really enjoy the spaceships as well. Quite an interesting take.
Oh, plus 2 Romance authors who joined a Horror promo and weren't kicked for some reason. 🤔 I guess that one "Billionaire Daddy-Bro" is horror to me... I just imagine E. M*sk. 😜 Bleh!
Stephen King gives a blunt three word response when discovering 23 of his books have been banned from school libraries in Florida, a law which is now being challenged by six major book publishers.
A delightfully complex tapestry of a book. I enjoyed the world, the problems, the problem solving, the interweaving of the storylines. I got tired of the rich, old, sex-obsessed white men running the Commonwealth, but I guess that's a proven character type. And, yes, there were other types involved in the running, but it was definitely a patriarchy. It just gets tiresome.
I admit I'm a bit conflicted with my current read, Shadow Show: All New Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury, edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle. I added this book to my TBR in 2012, long before I knew Bradbury might be problematic, and it was only recently that one of the contributing authors to this collection might also be problematic.
Holy hell, though... what a line-up: Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Audrey Niffenegger. And then since I'm listening to the audiobook, there's the narrators making this that much more of a treat: George Takei, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray freaking Abraham. It's really good stuff.
𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗧 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘, an anti-AI short story collection by Susan Kaye Quinn.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁? Or pay for your next meal with involuntary ads? These short stories speak to that sinking feeling that we're serving the machines instead of the other way around.
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