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All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by American author Martha Wells. The …
How relatable? Merely wanting to escape a dead end job and watch your favorite shows?
The Roller Derby Blueprint is a no-BS strategy guide for players, captains, coaches and team leaders playing WFTDA-rules derby who …
This wasn't terrible and I got some chuckles out of it. I think whatever this was is also why I didn't really click with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Soon to be a New HBO® Series from J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer of Westworld), Misha Green (Creator of Underground) and …
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the …
A SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN.
IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's sole …
I did enjoy it, but she says it herself at the end that it was hard to finish because :waves arms around at current reality:
I get it though and felt it but yeah it's okay and it finishes everything up. I really tried not to be disappointed because it is still fun to read... mostly.
(Such an odd term, "devil's bargain." Hinduism is full of "demons," but half of them are just gods having a bad day. As far as Padmini can tell, the same applies to Christian demons, who are supposed to be fallen angels. But Hindu demons don't run around trying to trick people into shady spiritual contracts; they mostly just start fights and kill people while obsessing over their own personal affairs. Christian demons really need to get a life.)
— The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities, #2) (Page 16)
Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she …
... is this solarpunk?
Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She …
This is one of those "don't judge a book by its cover" reads. It's interesting and vivid. If you like weird, strange, and sometimes oddly hard reads, try it.
Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.
The notion that everyone wants …
Navigating this is new to me, so it's great to read something advocating so fiercely for a while and complete space for aces of all types. Also wild to learn that Langston Hughes and Octavia Butler are mostly assumed to be gay despite avoiding that label and romance in their lives. In a more accepting world perhaps they would identify as ace or aro, but we should resist labeling them to suit our needs.
If you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you have to understand hip-hop. James Baldwin, in his …
