bookshelves: short-stories, science-fiction, favorites, dystopian Recommended to Dustin by: TL Rating: 5/5 stars The premise alone intrigued me. The fact that a good friend recommended it, and that it’s a Tor.com original and therefore FREE, made this story all the more appealing. However, I never could have imagined just what Alex Irvine had in store for his readers. Wow, man. […]
Hello, all.:_) It’s been a while since my last post, and there’s a valid reason for that. In simplistic terms: the hard drive in my laptop collapsed, fried, whatever you’d like to call it. That isn’t the purpose of this post. however. I want to start by saying that I did not author the following […]
bookshelves: challenging-literature, classics, historical-fiction,favorites, gut-wrenching Recommended to Dustin by: Shell Recommended for: everyone should read it, if only for the historical aspects Rating: 4/5 stars There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it […]
https://www.wired.com/2017/12/when-an-algorithm-helps-write-science-fiction/ Rating: 3/5 stars I went into this thinking two things: that I really needed to read it because I’d had it saved on Facebook for many months, and that it was an article; nonfiction. Knowing what I do now about the author, Stephen Marchie, I wasn’t far off. But, as they say, hindsight’s […]
bookshelves: fantasy, favorites, short-stories Recommended for: Holly Rating: 5/5 stars A tor.com exclusive, available for free HERE:https://www.tor.com/2018/04/11/the-he… The gains and losses of its citizenry had been gradual. Its resentments and injustices oozed like moisture down the dank wall of a forgotten reservoir, unremarked by either the clustered, crushing commonality or the Little Emperor, cloyed and gorged in his […]
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