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Climate change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the scale of the problem …
About to hit the final chapter and calling it a night. I'll maybe finish tomorrow. I'm really rooting for the author, but I don't think he's going to pull this thing off.
A multiverse story of love, loss, time travel, and final-stage capitalism from award-winning author Brenda …
I used my time listening to the Mariners v. the Tigers in the ALDS (yay for streaming radio!) to add all the Philip K. Dick award winners to a list. That's an award for distinguished science fiction first published in paperback. Most of these, including Time's Agent, seem like stuff right up my alley.
As always, if you are on SFBA.club, all the entries have descriptions and hi-res covers. The list on other servers depends on what rando first added each edition.
In the year 2038, the earth has been ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Retroviruses …
The text is over my head.
In the year 2038, the earth has been ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Retroviruses …
I really am not following what's happening here through the first chapter. If I can't get into this by the end of chapter 2, the book is getting DNF. I've been avoiding reading because i wasn't getting this, so setting a deadline for myself to get through.
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.”
Esther is …
I love that so many people have decided to put this book on their TBR recently. It's such a great book.
In this unforgettable meet-cute, Samantha Allen traces her story of self-discovery during gender transition and …
It felt like a memoir 2/3 about transitioning and 1/3 about falling in love. There's not a lot of strife detailed; by the end Ms. Allen has transitioned and she and her paramour have married.
Thrilled to spend the final hours of her spring break in the VIP room of …
Content warning mild spoilers that you could probably figure out anyway
I should probably nope out of crime fiction that involves sexually motivated serial killers. They feel so samey same. Not only motivated by some weird fetish, but they all just have to play games with the detective investigating them. Authors of these books also frequently use a device where they alternate between the detective's point of view and the killer's point of view, and it's obvious they are doing it to let you know the detective is on the wrong track.
In the year 2038, the earth has been ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Retroviruses …
I put this on hold at SFPL.
Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical …
My Otherwise award list is complete with the addition of this book. On SFBA.club the list should have high resolution covers and book descriptions. YMMV when the list is copied to other servers.
(The Otherwise Award encourages the exploration & expansion of gender.)
At once a lush fairytale, an unforgettable queer romance, and a celebration of trans love, …
Very weird. This book does not come up in a search using the title, but it does come up in a search with the ISBN.
Mikael, a young gay photographer, finds in the courtyard of his apartment block a small, …
Been putting together the Otherwise Award list. Got to this book, the 2004 co-winner, which was published under 4 different titles, depending on which country. I added this edition, which was the first edition in English. Then added the Finnish, German, and US editions. Everything looked great.
Then I added the book to the Otherwise list, and everything broke. Every time I refreshed Johanna Sinisalo's page, the editions would show up differently. First as two separate works. Then as five. The edition that showed up in the Otherwise list switched to the 2010 edition (which has a shitty cover). Then finally four works showed up on Sinisalo's author page.
I painstakingly added the editions back to this work and corrected the entry on the Otherwise list. The editions seem to be sticking to the work this time. However, there are still three other works that have duplicate information for editions …
Been putting together the Otherwise Award list. Got to this book, the 2004 co-winner, which was published under 4 different titles, depending on which country. I added this edition, which was the first edition in English. Then added the Finnish, German, and US editions. Everything looked great.
Then I added the book to the Otherwise list, and everything broke. Every time I refreshed Johanna Sinisalo's page, the editions would show up differently. First as two separate works. Then as five. The edition that showed up in the Otherwise list switched to the 2010 edition (which has a shitty cover). Then finally four works showed up on Sinisalo's author page.
I painstakingly added the editions back to this work and corrected the entry on the Otherwise list. The editions seem to be sticking to the work this time. However, there are still three other works that have duplicate information for editions from this one.
If Truffaut or Godard or Ozu wrote novels instead of making films, Before is the …
This was part of a Noir Bundle put together by Nick Mamatas back in 2017-ish. Starting this as part of my effort to clear out stuff in my TBR.
A Newflesh novella from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira …
It's okay. Not particularly interesting. Not off-putting either tho.
THEY THOUGHT SHE’D BE EASY. THEY THOUGHT WRONG.
It all began with the phone call …
Angel Dare, who runs a talent agency for porn stars, gets set up on a shoot, shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car, and manages to escape. On the run from the bad guys and the cops, she turns the tables and starts tracking down the perpetrators.
Simple premise. Heroine who doesn't let bad situations overcome her.
Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Inside a Silver Box continues to explore the cosmic …
Ronnie Bottoms kills Lorraine Fell and stuffs her body under some rocks in Central Park, which is also where a mysterious all-powerful alien box is. Lorraine talks the box into letting her convince Ronnie to bring her back to life. She has to possess Ma Lin, a former South Vietnam soldier who took care of enemies of the state, because he sits next to Ronnie. Ronnie then returns to Central Park, digs up Lorraine's body, and by the power of the Silver Box, brings Lorraine back to life. They spend the night in a hotel where Lorraine tries to fuck her murderer (and would be rapist) but he can't get it up. Then they are jailed because Lorraine has been missing and they used her credit card. After a bit of being roughed up by the cops, a lawyer hired by the Silver Box springs Lorraine and Ronnie.
And at …
Ronnie Bottoms kills Lorraine Fell and stuffs her body under some rocks in Central Park, which is also where a mysterious all-powerful alien box is. Lorraine talks the box into letting her convince Ronnie to bring her back to life. She has to possess Ma Lin, a former South Vietnam soldier who took care of enemies of the state, because he sits next to Ronnie. Ronnie then returns to Central Park, digs up Lorraine's body, and by the power of the Silver Box, brings Lorraine back to life. They spend the night in a hotel where Lorraine tries to fuck her murderer (and would be rapist) but he can't get it up. Then they are jailed because Lorraine has been missing and they used her credit card. After a bit of being roughed up by the cops, a lawyer hired by the Silver Box springs Lorraine and Ronnie.
And at this point they are all transported somewhere else in the galaxy where Ronnie (yes Ronnie the wanna be rapist) explains that Ma Lin now contains a molecule of an intergalactic race called the Laz and the Silver Box, tells Lorraine and Ronnie their quest is to save earth from the Laz molecule.
Yes. That is the story so far. I'm sure there's a reason why all of this is set up this way, but I am not willing to read through to the end to find out because it sure as hell won't be worth it.
DNF at 22%