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Leaving_Marx

Leaving_Marx@wyrmsign.org

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Printer, anarchist, illustrator, & enthusiast of the printed word.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I want everyone to read it and think of it often ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book, fun, and uncomplicated ⭐⭐⭐ Good, feel complicated about if I wasted my time ⭐⭐+⬇️ I hate read this

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James Stout: Against the State (2025, AK Press Distribution)
Leo Herrera: (analog) Cruising (2024, Herrera, Leonardo)
Ben Passmore: Black Arms to Hold You Up (Paperback, Pantheon)

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Jasper Bernes: Future of Revolution (2025, Verso Books)
Lyn Corelle, Jimmy Cooper, Grace Lavery, Lily Woodruff, Balthazar4Antinous, Adam Turay, Theresa Sweetheart, Cameron Lee S., Clark Ruhff, Ruby Pique, Lily O'Donnell, Hesper M. O'Connor, Ash Marks, Bratti LuPone, Erin Lynch, Linden, Fischer Kniessel, Kathy, Raechel Anne Jolie, Incalculable Debt, Robin Hustle, Val Schlosberg, Peach Gallant, Suz Evans, Sophie Durbin, Lou Daybreak, coolsquid, Mia Clay, Scott Branson: Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest! (Paperback, 2023, Maitland Systems Engineering)
David Graeber: Debt (2014)

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Mahmoud Darwish, Fady Joudah: The Butterfly's Burden (Paperback, 2007, Copper Canyon Press)
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Cage of Souls (Paperback, 2019, Head of Zeus)
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2) (2021)

2026 Reading Goal

6% complete! Leaving_Marx has read 2 of 30 books.

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reviewed City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky: City of Last Chances (2022, Head of Zeus)

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with …

Second Go this time with the sequels

I really think this is one of my favourite AT novels I have read.

My simple pitch, this is the fantasy novel equivalent of Fredy Perlmans "Worker-student action committees".

full stop.

reviewed Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #3)

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Lords of Uncreation (Paperback, 2023, Tor Books)

He's found a way to end their war, but will humanity survive to see it?

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Finale

Just wrapped up this series and very much appreciated it. It had both the scale of everything but still kept the story and characters within a time and place that was easy to comprehend.

many sympathetic characters and many despicable.

By the end I had trouble keeping track of the different factions involved in the grand scale of all the issues, but I appreciated the application of three way fight logistics, and cataclysmic problems.

happy I read it and for anyone Adrian Tchaikovsky pilled it is a great series.

reviewed Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Shards of Earth (Paperback, 2022, Orbit)

The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . .

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reread for 2025

I just devoured this one for a refresher before starting the next two books in the trilogy. Really like AT's world building and how his prose really paints me a picture that looks just like 70's sci-fi mate paintings and book covers.

and as always this book features invertebrates as a plot point like so many of his stories!

....and multi-party conflicts, world ending crisis, class and gender politics, revolutions, the occult and cults, and other standards of good sci-fi in my opinion.