Embassytown by China Mieville
i suppose this book is excellent?
Tag: genre fiction
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Trilogy ends with a whimper (I wanted a bang)
Fireship/Mother and Child by Joan D. Vinge
a novella as boring as my life rn then a novella that’s good
The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
i continue having a terrible time
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
middling swashbuckling adventure
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
August 1st, 2022, Tottenham Ok so I’ve let myself get behind on this by several weeks again & I’ve alsoContinue Reading
micropost – Planet of Exile by Ursula K Le Guin
an excellent novella from le guin
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
pacy thriller; terrible bookstore; hot summer heat
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
reading more earthsea, hating everything else
Grievers by adrienne maree brown
great speculative fiction; scott visits quebec city
Dune by Frank Herbert
yes it’s a book for incels, but it’s not bad!!!
The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai
a super engaging contemporary sci-fi novel that sacrifices characterisation for an excess of plot
Frederik Pohl
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
Old Sci-Fi (Keyes, Wells, Pohl, Aldiss) & Mass Graves
they keep finding mass graves of children
Nnedi Okorafor
three genre books
Canopus in Argos: Archives by Doris Lessing
doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing
the final book in Doris Lessing’s sci-fi quintet
The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing
book three in doris lessing’s space opera quintet
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, And Five (As Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) by Doris Lessing
part two of doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler
an excellent short genre piece
The Seep by Chana Porter
very gen x “internet is bad” vibes
Out of Time by James P Hogan
descends into a rant about frottage
The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
a fun book but not a real one, y’know
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
a blog from when the [first?] lockdown eased
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
accidentally read a right-wing novel; thoughts about returning to work mid-pandemic
the mirror and the light by hilary mantel
Written June 15th and actually it was this one, not Things Fall Apart that caused me to pause blogging, forContinue Reading
Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
another ripping escapist yarn
this is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
more mediocre writing slash “lauded genre writing”
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
distracting the self with heady genre fiction
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
i read escapist fiction and attempt escapist walking
fledging by Octavia E. Butler
vampires yes please and too long sentences
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
reading about dragons again lol
Lilith’s Brood by Octavia E. Butler
read a massive book about aliens like a nerd
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
for fans of The Goldfinch…
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
a stupid person’s idea of a clever novel; fun but flimsy
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
an underwhelming but important read
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
some contemporary literary fiction about scotland
Triumph Of The Now 