nonbinary. mtl. interested in speculative fiction, weird fiction, scifi, fantasy, horror, folk horror, folklore, zines. currently mostly reading ttrpg lorebooks
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld …
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity …
you cannot convince me that a guy who knows the exact propulsion of a jumbo jet engine etc. does not know what the library of congress is
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, …
Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, …
I've spent the last few years saying that Tchaikovsky is my favourite sci fi writer but something about this foray into fantasy just didn't hit for me, and I'm not exactly sure why. the writing was still beautiful and inventive, but the entire series felt somehow impersonal-- the characters more of a mechanism for conveying plot than actual people.
Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion …
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the …
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of …
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with …
maybe not tchaikovsky at his best because at his best, he writes characters that you cannot help but adore, but absolutely tchaikovsky in his element-- revolution
The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of …
epic fantasy in a world based on the pre-columbian americas rather than medieval europe. very compelling characters, plenty of queerness and transness that didn't feel tokenizing. the ending was... abrupt
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at …
The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven …
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor …
I loved the attempt to describe an alien that is fundamentally /alien/. trying to find a scientific basis for having vampires in the story was... interesting. the "climax" of the novel made no sense, although in its favour, I guess that made it a surprise. the casual and incredibly pervasive misogyny was tiresome, and seems to be on the part of the author rather than just another characteristic to make the protagonist unlikable (it wasn't necessary), considering that there are relatively few slurs in the novel but four misogynistic ones, and one of those is slung by the author in his endnotes at three scientists whose work he thinks insufficiently deals with their areas of research.
part of me wants to know how the core ideas spin out in the sequels but the much bigger part of me wants to avoid anything else by this author.
