On a whim I’ve re-read this story of a bunch of mortals visiting faeryland and bringing all sorts of doom to it.
Still a good and easy read, but obviously a rather dark one.
A collection of four dystopian novellas that’s been on my list for ages, and they’ve not aged a day since release. Especially the titular radicalized, about an armed uprising against the US healthcare system…
As usual, Doctorow has a very keen eye on How Things Will Get Worse Under Capitalism, and it’s a good read that can be tackled one-by-one.
Eine Sammlung von Erzählungen und Lebensgeschichten aus der Traditionsschifferszene, wie das damals(tm) so war und wie das heute alles schwieriger ist. Und darüber wie damals einfach mal gemacht wurde, zB die Geschichte der versuchten Weltumseglung der Pippilotta.
Interessant zu lesen, hätte aber Lektorat und Korrektorat vertragen können.
As expected, this thing is a lot less confusing the second time around, and having it in print also helps when checking for the Dramatis Personae aka “who was that again?”. It still is a wild ride around very interesting world-building, and apparently I had hallucinated a whole plot point in Canaan House. Books-in-memory are always a gamble. I once again highly recommend this whole series.
(I also have no idea why Charlie says “in space” in his cover blurb, when maybe half a percent of everything is actually in space, but hey.)
Some so-very-much needed comfort food, the story of Sibling Dex and Mosscap, and their adventures in the wild and in the villages, and it’s.. just so good. Wholesome. Comfortable. Hopeful.
And I might be a little emotional now, after inhaling it after whatever this week was.
It was… alright? I feel a bit like the concept has run its course and maybe it’s time to get off the horse while it’s still alive.
I don’t fully understand why “Can’t Stop” was in there, “Spider Rose” was a good watch, as was “The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur”, “How Zeke Got Religion” was good but really gory, and “For He Can Creep” has some very good cats.
Again, an alright season, but it lacked the pull of its predecessors.
I don’t have anything smart to say about either, but both are very good movies that I would definitely recommend.
The third and so far last Prefect Dreyfus Emergency brings me finally back to the point of having read everything Revelation Space. The book picks up a while after its predecessor, and… I have no idea how to keep this spoiler free, so I’ll just say that it brings the as-of-now trilogy to a satisfying conclusion, while leaving open possibilities to tell more stories in the Glitter Band of Yellowstone.
(I highly recommend to read Aurora Rising and Elysium Fire first, and I highly recommend every single piece of Revelation Space-fiction this man has ever written.)
On the one hand, there’s not a lot to say. It’s an Assassin’s Creed game. It’s set in Ancient Egypt in an attempt to tell the story of how things came to be, backfilling the series-defining artefacts away from being biblical into being ancient. It’s an alright story, it’s good gameplay, and I cannot clearly explain why but I found the ending, while not bad, very lacking.
The DLCs were pretty good, especially the Curse of the Pharaohs, but that one has… no proper ending at all? The quests just are over at some point? Or I’ve missed something bigger. I don’t know.
It plays well. I had fun. I don’t know if I would actively recommend it.
A book about refrigeration, the history thereof, and it’s impact on every single part of the food chain.
A good read, with tons of interesting things to learn along the way.
