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Twenty-eight new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction. The third annual installment in the …
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"A very welcome addition to the series." @niallharrison reviews THE INHUMANS AND OTHER STORIES: A SELECTION OF BENGALI SCIENCE FICTION, edited by @bodhisattvac.bsky.social https://locusmag.com/2024/04/niall-harrison-reviews-the-inhumans-and-other-stories-a-selection-of-bengali-science-fiction-edited-by-bodhisattva-chattopadhyay/
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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …
Time travel stories usually follow the exploits of someone rocketing through time to change history. This person ponders the various time travel paradoxes or wrestles with the implications of an ever-splitting multiverse. All of which is to say that Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time is a unique look at the perils of time travel. Instead of travelers deliberately injecting themselves into history, a mysterious British Agency has used a recovered time machine to “rescue” five Britons from the past from their inevitable deaths by pulling them into a future ravaged by climate change. Our narrator is one of the few civil servants in on the secret, selected to help acclimate one of the “expats” to life in the twenty-first century...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.
@phonner I enjoyed Greg Bear's earlier books, like "Eon", more than his later ones like this one. I'm more into the science than the thriller elements. :-)
@picklish@books.theunseen.city Nice review. Thanks for bringing the book to my attention.
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global …
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Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and …
On the surface, this is a future sf book about discovering sentient octopuses and trying to communicate with them. But, this is no Children of Ruin or even a Feed Them Silence; it hinges less on plot and characters, and feels more about worldbuilding in service to philosophy.
I quite enjoyed this book, and the strongest part was just how tightly the book's themes and ideas intertwined through the book's different point of views and the worldbuilding. It's a not-so-far future book with sentient octopuses, overfished waters, AI boats that drive themselves in search of profit, drones driven by humans in tanks, and the first android (but one reviled by humanity). It's a book about language and communication, memory and forgetting, what it means to be human and exist in community, and about fear of others.
@jzacsh Interesting. Thanks for bringing the book to my attention.
In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where …
Tales of the dark, fantastical and delightfully strange from the best voices in Nordic fiction.
Storytelling has been a major …
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Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
A classic Scalzi one-shot novel--a fluffy snack with some good twists.
The basic setup is that down-on-his-luck Charlie Fitzer unexpectedly inherits his estranged billionaire uncle's villainous empire and now has to fend with other villains who were pissed at his uncle.
Key features:
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Brian Kernighan provides an enjoyable read detailing the creation of Unix.
I really enjoyed the "behind the scenes" stories that describe the whys & hows that led to the development of some of the programs and tools we use to this day, such as: pipes, grep/egrep, the C language itself, the Bourne shell, Make, Sed & Awk, and on and on!
The mini biographies of the many talented folks (e.g., Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy) who were instrumental in creating Unix was a fund read as well.
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On the free INTERZONE Patreon tier (free!), some early sketches by Martin Hanford for the ‘Benji the Killbot’ art 👇🏼
https://www.patreon.com/posts/hanford-and-102074617
And free to read in IZ’s sister zine @IZDigital another Hanfor-illustrated drone tale: Dale Smith’s ‘Joy’ (‘a masterful piece of science fiction’ — Maria Haskins)
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New issue of @bcsmagazine is here! Featuring stories by Christine Hanolsy and Liana Richmond and cover art by Nele Diel: https://weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-405/
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I've been monitoring the ups and downs of rebuilding subscriptions post-Amazon for the magazines that have been impacted. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that survival depends on us being more shameless. So...
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