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Science Fictional 12 years, 5 months agoAnyone else fans of CS Friedman or Gordon R. Dickson?
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoOn my nightstand right now: The Perfect Scent but Chandler Burr (it’s about the perfume industry and it’s actually not fluffy at all ) , God is Not Good by Christopher Hitchens and A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoi need a new book. what is your most recent favorite book?
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Earth’s Children series. It’s a very well-researched historical fantasy series set in Paleolithic Europe. And it likes the gays, though they’re not very prevalent
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this this this. i read this series starting in the 6th grade because i wanted to be an archaeologist. she puts in sooo much detail…but, then i got through to Plains of Passage and had to wait TEN YEARS for her to finish the next book because she does so much research/writes slow. oh, so worth it. The most recent book in the series just came out, too.
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Omigosh, I got it the day it came out. Finished it the next day. So good! <3
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It’s not recent but A Man, by Orianna Falacci is the best book I’ve ever read in my whole life
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‘The Orphan’s Tales’ by Catherynne Valente is actually two books (‘In the Night Garden’ and ‘In the Cities of Coin and Spice’) and they’re absolutely brilliant. She writes with such lush language and the way she structures her stories is amazing. They’re stories within stories, like those Russian nesting dolls, and when you read the whole thing,…[Read more]
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Oh, and a musician named SJ Tucker did two companion albums to the books called “Solace and Sorrow” and “For the Girl in the Garden” (which you can listen to in their entirety at those links) containing songs inspired by and readings from the books. “Firebird’s Child” is one of my favorite songs ever!
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Thank you! My night stand seems empty and forlorn with out Infinite Jest on it. It has been there sooooo long that it is hard to imagine a night stand without it. I’ve been on a modernist kick for a while so it will be good to get on another type of train.
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Science Fictional 12 years, 5 months agoI’ve read Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, both of which I LOVED ..due in no small part to Heinlein’s positive portrayals of polyamory.
Unfortunately he did have some *cough* RIDICULOUS views of women.
The only Asimov I’ve read is his short story The Last Question, which leads me to believe I MUST READ MORE.-
If you can get your hands on it, I highly recommend the short story collection ‘The Edge of Tomorrow’. It’s collected fiction (and a few non-fiction essays) by Asimov about science and scientists. It has The Last Question in it, as well as couple of his other really popular short stories like Nightfall and The Ugly Little Boy, but it also has a…[Read more]
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Added to my Goodreads queue! Unfortunately I still have TONS of school reading to do first :(
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Yeah, the misogyny thing upsets me, but the polyamory thing makes me happy, and meh. So many feelings :/ The Last Question is one of the more recent Asimov pieces I’ve read, I mainly devoured his work when I was younger. TLQ gave me effing goosebumps, you guys I <3 it. And "The Edge of Tomorrow" sounds fantastamazing as well. Short stories FTW.…[Read more]
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Did you read the uncut edition of Stranger? I think it is a better book. And right on with the appreciation for polyamory. Heinlein, I think, tried to portray women as having great strength, but sometimes he was just made of fail in his writing. I actually find the positive portrayal of poly to be one of the main reason’s I like Jordan’s Wheel of…[Read more]
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The uncut version was SO MUCH BETTER. I understood it way more than I did when I read the ending of the first one, which made me go “What the HELLLLL” really emphatically while on a roadtrip with my cousins, and they just didn’t get it.
“HE’S AN ANGEL?! HE’S A MARTIAN! WTFFFFF”
“Shut up Kat”
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Ha ha ha! I haven’t read the cut version, but from what friends have said it sounds…lacking. Did you know there is an actual Church of All Worlds? I hear they’re not as active as they used to be though.
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Robbie is super sad! A lot of people talk about how is work isn’t very emotional, but I don’t think those people have read Robbie, or The Ugly Little Boy.
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*his, not is.
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