realityasylumreads finished reading Song of napalm by Bruce Weigl
Unsurprisingly, poems about someones time in the Vietnam war are crushingly dark
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I mostly read sci-fi and spec fiction but also dig poetry good fiction and the occasional non-fiction
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realityasylumreads finished reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments …
An easy read but this didn't live up the hype for me. Also, the way in which she describes the experiments on mice is done so coldly and without an ounce of empathy that I'm pretty sure she hates animals. A very small part of the book but I could not shake it.
realityasylumreads finished reading The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Ill be honest, I don't think I followed this at all
realityasylumreads finished reading Hyperion (Hyperion, #1) by Dan Simmons
In the 29th century, the Hegemony of Man comprises hundreds of planets connected by farcaster …
Honestly, this was mid
realityasylumreads finished reading Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (Daughters of the Empty Throne, #1)
In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret …
Not a witch book person but am very much a Margaret Killjoy person. Took a minute for me to get into, but by the middle I was down.
realityasylumreads finished reading The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #1)
Eccentric genius Adam Bosch has cracked the multiverse and discovered a way to travel to …
I really loved this one. Excited to read the second.
realityasylumreads finished reading Neuromancer by William Gibson (unspecified)
The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner …
Didn't really do it for me
realityasylumreads reviewed Fever dream by Samanta Schweblin
"A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named …
Loved it
4 stars
Loved this. An unique way to tell a story. Felt the Amanda's anxiety all the way through.
realityasylumreads finished reading Fever dream by Samanta Schweblin
"A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named …
What a wild
realityasylumreads finished reading The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New …
One of my favorite Le Guin books
realityasylumreads rated Embassytown: 1 star
Embassytown by China Miéville
Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe.
Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, …
realityasylumreads rated Housekeeper and the Professor: 5 stars
realityasylumreads finished reading The Employees by Olga Ravn
Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and …
Loved this unsettling book. Felt like reading poetry and scifi at the same time
realityasylumreads rated The Employees: 5 stars
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike complain …