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Post by The Captain If you see a girl with books in her purse, know this: She can beat your ass with her brain AND her books — a bag of books is fucking heavy.

📚 Artificial Truth by: J. M. Lee

In the virtual city of Alegria, fantasies are made real, innumerable lifetimes are lived, and even death itself is a survivable experience. An escape from reality that changed the landscape of artificial intelligence, it is home to more than one hundred million people. Though it's been six years sin...

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In the virtual city of Alegria, fantasies are made real, innumerable lifetimes are lived, and even death itself is a survivable experience. An escape from reality that changed the landscape of artificial intelligence, it is home to more than one hundred million people. Though it's been six years since Alegria's creator revolutionary tech genius KC Kim died of cancer, his legacy is alive in the pinnacle of KC's genius: an AI named Allen who surges with KC's memories. As hard as KC's widow, Minju, and her new husband, Junmo, try to move on, Minju can't shake the unnerving feeling that somehow, from somewhere, KC is watching. She sees a stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance to him. A pair of KC's custom-made shoes arrive at her doorstep. And someone has booked a Tokyo hotel room where she and KC shared happier times. Certain of nothing except KC's mad innovation, Minju can only imagine what he is accomplishing without even existing. If KC is reaching out from an infinity of memories, what are his plans for Minju and Junmo, and how can they hope to escape KC's all-seeing grasp? And whose plans are they, really? The possibilities are frightening. From J.M. Lee, a bestselling phenomenon in Korea, comes a haunting and mind-bending novel about the revolutionary possibilities of AI and the infinite mysteries of what it means to be human.

How have I not discovered Jodi Taylor's St Mary's series before now?

Thoroughly enjoying "Just One Damned Thing After Another" and looking forward to further adventures with the team of historian dorks.

Finished book Conspirator by C.J. Cherryh. I love this series for the very thorough immersion of our human protagonist in an alien culture. This was the tenth book. In this one Bren discovers that a somewhat shiftless neighbor to his coastal estate made deals with Southern usurper clans who aided in the failed coup against Tabini. Even worse, enemy Guild security have taken over the neighbor's property and become a threat to Bren and Tabini's son, who recklessly absconded in the night to Bren's estate to escape the restrictions of living in the royal court. The boy, Cajeiri, has become practically ungovernable and it's up to Bren and the boy's formidable great-grandmother to keep him from getting himself killed. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

I do like both, and I've never understood why this is an issue, is it not the content of the book that matters? Not how that content is delivered? 🤔😁

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Tom and Jerry meme, Tom is having a sword fight with the dog, and Jerry is watching. Captions: Dog: ebook readers Tom: Physical readers Jerry: Me liking both

📚 We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse) by: Dennis E. Taylor

There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state.

He has been uploaded into computer ...

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There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty. The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad — very mad.

Killing Stella. By Marlen Haushofer. 1958. (Translated by Shaun Whiteside)

In 1950s Austria, you are a housewife with kids, when an acquaintance dumps her 19 year old daughter with you for a year; the daughter is innocuous but your household is so fragile, and you are managing your own internal storm of mundane familial relationships, that the friends’ daughter is caught in the invisible crossfire.

4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈

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Excerpt of my book The Last Philosopher.

In "Trying to do right" we're introduced to a character who's escaping a prison and thinks he's The Last (Free) Philsopher 😊

DL link in AltText.

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Nothing about this baby-faced man gave the impression of a convict. For one thing, his ever-changing frown was often somewhere between perpetual amazement and advanced calculus. Combined with his weary blue eyes and the grey streak in his hair, it gave him the look of a scholar. To complete that image, he needed a beard, but his smooth face could never produce more than a slight fuzz. Herschel |. Pensador was trying out a new idea: non-violent resistance. Just one of many notions this gifted thinker had about how things should be done. But it hadn’t evolved into hunger strikes or protests. Instead, the non-violent part only meant that his escape should bother no one else. Not even the guards. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tynp5wgkwr0dkvmf3dzp3/The-Last-Philosopher-Part-One.epub?rlkey=n61zknkz05eakr809gcs19kzd&dl=0

📚 The Bad Weather Friend by: Dean Koontz

Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a gia...

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Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of it. He'll find Benny's enemies. He'll deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn't such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation. In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure, the likes of which never would have crossed the mind of a decent guy like him. Benny is so nice they feel compelled to destroy him, but he has a friend who should scare the hell out of them in this breathtaking new kind of thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.