Leaving_Marx started reading October by China Miéville
October by China Miéville
"Acclaimed fantasy author China Mieville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down The renowned fantasy and …
Simply, I would stan the villian.
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Leaving_Marx reviewed The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created …
The ghost brigades book #2
4 stars
Content warning Maybe a spoiler.
Leaving_Marx started reading The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the …
Leaving_Marx reviewed Redshirts by John Scalzi
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship …
For those who like to trek
4 stars
Redshifts was funny, goofy, satirical. Definitely a fun read. I went in blind without a synopsis and I'd recommend the same for you.
If you're a fan of lower decks or the Orville you'll probably like it. Or truly hate it. But at 300 pages it is worth the risk.
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Leaving_Marx started reading Redshirts by John Scalzi
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since …
Leaving_Marx reviewed Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #1)
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about …
What a different type of sci-fi
4 stars
The first book in the old man's war trilogy was different than I expected. It was campy, humours, and much more straightforward in its delivery of a sci-fi action story than I am used to.
Most sci-fi I have picked because of its stewing political subplots, the meta commentary podcasts everywhere and the social commentary masked as alien species and totalitarian power relations.
This book was fun, and if critical of the colonial and war-mongering society that features at its heart, it has an over-the-top presentation which reminded me of the starship troopers movie.
Definitely a brain off, retro futures good read and I am looking forward to seeing if there is more interesting subplots developed in the following novels.
Leaving_Marx wants to read The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the …
Leaving_Marx started reading Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #1)
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #1)
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in …
Leaving_Marx finished reading METAtropolis: Cascadia by Mary Robinette Kowal (METAtropolis, #2)
METAtropolis: Cascadia by Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, and 2 others (METAtropolis, #2)
This provocative sequel to the Hugo and Audie Award nominated METAtropolis features interconnected stories by today’s top writers of speculative …
Leaving_Marx commented on METAtropolis: Cascadia by Mary Robinette Kowal (METAtropolis, #2)
This provocative sequel to the Hugo and Audie Award nominated METAtropolis features interconnected stories by …
Karl Schroeder's "Deodand" brings back my fav character, the Ukrainian nuclear investigator in a story that can be put simply as an ethicists anti-speciesism fable.
Leaving_Marx wants to read The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parentsa fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be …
Leaving_Marx commented on METAtropolis: Cascadia by Mary Robinette Kowal (METAtropolis, #2)
This provocative sequel to the Hugo and Audie Award nominated METAtropolis features interconnected stories by …
Content warning Very general spoilers
Confessor by Elizabeth Bear is a cool and divergent theme in the metatropolis universe. Following the cop trying to crack a crime storyline, we are deep on the woods and unravelling a mysterious black site and what goes on within.
It is interesting to see regular engagements with cops in this world that sees them as general low tier, disliked, corrupt members of these more institutional societies, some terking work as private eyes, some on the payroll. The whole societies saviour narrative isn't present but at the same time it consistently plays up the "few good cops" vibe, working against the "bad guys" who are regular corporate and mafia actors and also the people on the take or politicking within the cops themselves.
I wish there was a bit of vision in the series that fantasized about a world without penal and carcerial systems, but wear it seems progressing or interesting is the balkanizing, federating, green, and tech fronts and this is where I think the authors explore the most interesting content.
Leaving_Marx finished reading All About Love by bell hooks
All About Love by bell hooks
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public …
Leaving_Marx reviewed All About Love by bell hooks
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness …
All about love
4 stars
Bell hooks proses and musings on love. Not sure why, but I expected it to be a feminist text engaging with the idea of love. It is more a love text engaging with feminism. I recently lost my mom and "recently" ended a handful of important relationships and want to engage with this concept of love from someone I respect. I want to both play with an openness to love and optimism being apart of politics and I want to feel open to love when feeling like vulnerability can be so hard.
I liked her engagement with childhood and learning love that we reproduce when we are older, at least when we don't interrogate it and seek to change that relationship. And her critiques of patriarchy and the ways that socialized men and socialized women commonly relate to love, care, and empathy.
The section on grief and love was my …
Bell hooks proses and musings on love. Not sure why, but I expected it to be a feminist text engaging with the idea of love. It is more a love text engaging with feminism. I recently lost my mom and "recently" ended a handful of important relationships and want to engage with this concept of love from someone I respect. I want to both play with an openness to love and optimism being apart of politics and I want to feel open to love when feeling like vulnerability can be so hard.
I liked her engagement with childhood and learning love that we reproduce when we are older, at least when we don't interrogate it and seek to change that relationship. And her critiques of patriarchy and the ways that socialized men and socialized women commonly relate to love, care, and empathy.
The section on grief and love was my favourite part, and how we know love fully, and the love and value we have for a person, in the process of grief.
Definitely lots of engagement with Christianity and spiritually which doesn't speak to me but the politics and musings on childhood and patriarchy and loss are worth the read.