Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
what if we could all be geniuses… for a few months as we die of germ warfare???
Tag: science fiction
Light by M. John Harrison
i read a book i hoped to love while staying with just my baby on a boat
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse #1)
Leviathan Wakes is wall-to-wall fast paced excitement, and absolutely nothing else…
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
a fine novel that didn’t blow my mind like samuel delany usually do
A Dream Wants Waking By Lydia Kwa
i enjoyed this chaotic novel but never worked out if it was in control or not…
City Of A Thousand Suns by Samuel R. Delany (The Fall of The Towers #3)
This is the concluding part of the trilogy the fall of the towers, the earlier two volumes of which I’veContinue Reading
The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany
not the best next stop on my Samuel Delany journey, but this juvenilia is still a joy!
Viriconium by M. John Harrison
almost 600 pages of not really my thing maybe
Provenance by Ann Leckie
unexpectedly not on holiday, I read something light
World Running Down by Al Hess
reading too much SF cuz im on a psychological downswing that wont end unless/until i change the material conditions of my life which i am trying to do
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
how would people act if they already knew how they were gonna act???
City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
phenomenal novel from a storytelling expert – essentially flawless??? (i loved it and im so depressed i take pleasure from nothing)
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
read a book abour time travel while on holiday (yes, that’s an elephant)
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune #4)
dune but not forgotten
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
a bleak future that looks a lot like the bleak past
A Spy In Time by Imraan Coovadia
a book that disproves a rule: this could have been longer!
Space Crone by Ursula K Le Guin
read a little guin
The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #5)
another doris lessing quintet concludes
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
med free and hating life lol 😜
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Trilogy ends with a whimper (I wanted a bang)
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
maybe walking blind into the desert is the bravest thing to do
Fireship/Mother and Child by Joan D. Vinge
a novella as boring as my life rn then a novella that’s good
Recursion by Blake Crouch
very fun, very trashy, contemporary time travel novel
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
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
a failure of intent
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
a literary zombie novel. does it work? oh yes it works!
Bloodchild by Octavia E Butler
exceptionally good short story collection
MICROPOST: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
tiny review of a space opera that’s perfect for a holiday read
Ambergris by Jeff VanderMeer
a big book about mushrooms that are magic (not magic mushrooms)
Canopus by Dave Chisholm
quick read, a fun sci-fi psychological thriller!
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
Old Sci-Fi (Keyes, Wells, Pohl, Aldiss) & Mass Graves
they keep finding mass graves of children
Nnedi Okorafor
three genre books
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
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 heads of cerberus by Francis Stevens
early sci-fi and smh so sad
this is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
more mediocre writing slash “lauded genre writing”
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
i read escapist fiction and attempt escapist walking
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
I read another great, serious, time travel novel
Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin
impressive experimental speculative fiction
Selected Short Stories by H.G. Wells
some classic sci-fi
Fury by DB Waters
i read something supernatural and realise why i’m not into the genre
The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick
pleasantly surprised by what I expected to be trash
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
in a world without books, why can everybody read???
Triumph Of The Now 