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ergative

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SFF booknerd; calligrapher; Islamic geometric art doer; figure skating appreciater; coffee-drinking, granola-baking, tofu-eating wokeratum; psycholinguist by vocation, fretful porpentine by aspiration.

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PULSATING!!

(I must say, I didn't think Brandon Sanderson wrote that kind of thing. )

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I'm reading through the Clarke Award nominees, and I'm getting very tired of all the wallowing in dystopian futures that have been constructed solely to indict the trajectory of the present.

Like, I get it, SF is and has always been political. And that's fine! But can we please have a STORY as well? And fewer footnotes referencing Supreme Court case outrages?

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strathearnrose ,
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@ergative @bookstodon @books ah yes, this one of my bugbears too! I don’t want to be preached at, I want a good story. And any good story will have things to say - but no story and I’ll stop reading.

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Dang, y'all, I know I'm late to the party, but in case anyone else is even later than me, @vajra 's Saint of Bright Doors is ASTONISHINGLY GOOD.

Or, at least, the first half is. I presume the second half is too, but I haven't finished it yet. It has definitely shot to the top of my Hugo best novel ranking. (One more to read!)

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chloroform_tea ,
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@ergative @vajra @bookstodon oh you have some fun moments to come

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Now that Thing of Thing and Thing is going away, it seems the next titling trend is (often plural) Proximate Demonstrative Determiners Adjective Noun

These Violent Delights
These Broken Stars
These Hollow Vows
These Tangled Vines
These Silent Woods
These Toxic Things
These Impossible Things
This Tender Land
This Woven Kingdom
This Savage Song
These Shallow Graves
These Rebel Waves
These Fleeting Shadows
These Deadly Prophecies
These Monstrous Ties
These Burning Stars

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FYI, friendos, if you have a UK-based Netgalley account, this MASTERPIECE of title + cover design is now available:

(I haven't read it yet, but I'M GOING TO!!)

https://www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book/379156

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Cover image of 'Space cats: making enemies', by Craig A Price and Shayne Price. Image shows a tabby cat's head in a space suit. Oh god, I hope it's not AI generated. It just occurs to me it might be AI generated. That would be a pity if it were. I'm sorry--it's the cover of a book. Forgive me if I put AI art in your feed.
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    Dear book publishers everywhere:

    Hire this artist to do your covers!

    https://www.instagram.com/superstarfighter/

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    @ergative @bookstodon

    Thank you for championing an artist.

    Great book covers sell good books. Book shop browsers are always drawn in by an intriguing cover.

    It's worth remembering that some of us (readers) are visually tuned in and may be oblivious to reviews when we're scanning the shelves.

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