I like science fiction, science fact, situated feminisms, and speculative fabulations.
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14% complete! Andy has read 5 of 35 books.
Elric of Melniboné is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread. …
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and …
Dr. Abner Perry has invented a high-calibration digging machine affectionately called 'The Iron Mole'. While …
Better to read Journey to the Center of the Earth twice than this racist incel fantasy.
(I did think the Hollow Earth was interesting and that the timelessness could have been something cool, in like a "Story of your Life" kind of way.)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also …
Get ready for a hike, it's pretty much all walking or boating around. Minecraft the book?
Verne front loads the racism:
Calls someone So-and-so the Jew;
Describes a sooty figurehead pipe as becoming a "negress";
References savages in South America and Africa.
But mostly just stereotypes an Icelander for the rest of the book.
Creative and odd. Can't tell if I liked the dart guns.
Some trans vibes.
"A significantly different version of this work was previously published." (copyright page)
A man on BART asked me what I would rate this book on a scale of 1-10. I said 7.
I liked it.
He asked if I think it should be made into a movie. I said yes.
Read to my pal.
When Diggory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up …
The new setting was hard to get into but the book really grew on me. Also the sword is just so cool.
Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than …
I liked the story and, for the most part, the pace of the adaptation. Not super into the art style but it's fine. The ending is cut short though, and doesn't fully explain a part of the epilogue...
Acceptance is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the last in a series of three books called the …
2.5/5
Some compelling ideas about space and the state of affairs in Mexico, but some parts needed more explanation or citation. The journalistic writing style was different for me, fresh I guess.
Was interesting reading a liberal book in the Semiotext(e) Interventions series lol. Not my conclusions but okay.
"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In …
