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Finished reading:
Nothing totally finished this cycle, technically. BUT
Currently reading:
Exhalation by Ted Chiang, which half way through has been a rollercoaster of up and down reading.
The merchant and the alchemist's gate. The story that I thought was going to be the hardest to get into turned out to be my overwhelmed-by-feels standout. It's a nested stories-within-a-story, and all of them deftly play to my love of time travel and healing and pieces clicking into place just so. Deeply satisfying.
Exhalation A strange, detailed look at mechanical people investigating themselves in much the same way we try to, but with the advantages of being able to take themselves apart. I'm not entirely sure of the point, per se. I picked up allusions to climate change and the like, I just wasn’t sure what to do with them.
What's expected of us A small unsettling story that I think I read before it was published here. What would you do if it were proved that we had no free will?
The lifecycle of software objects Digients (essentially very advanced tamagotchis) are raised in virtual worlds. I wanted to love this story. Reading the author notes afterwards, I really wanted to love the story he said he was inspired to write, but the story he actually wrote was…hmm. He chose to write it in a very distanced, telling-not-showing style, which was jarring. And then the digients spoke like toddlers, even after years and years of literal schooling, and it was abrading my nerves long before the topic of essentially selling them for sex work was raised, at which point it started grating through my nerves into rage. This was…possibly the goal? But I feel like either he or I missed the point, if it was.
Dacey's patent automatic nanny A beautifully-voiced museum interpretation of an automated nanny: the horrible, 'rational' misogynistic man who thought up such a device, and the adult son who used it on the grandchild, and it was all deeply unsettling and very well done.
Up next:
The rest of Exhalation.
The girl who drank the moon by Kelly Barnhill which is on hold for me at the library.
Because internet which I've not bought yet, despite my excitement.
Nothing totally finished this cycle, technically. BUT
Currently reading:
Exhalation by Ted Chiang, which half way through has been a rollercoaster of up and down reading.
The merchant and the alchemist's gate. The story that I thought was going to be the hardest to get into turned out to be my overwhelmed-by-feels standout. It's a nested stories-within-a-story, and all of them deftly play to my love of time travel and healing and pieces clicking into place just so. Deeply satisfying.
Exhalation A strange, detailed look at mechanical people investigating themselves in much the same way we try to, but with the advantages of being able to take themselves apart. I'm not entirely sure of the point, per se. I picked up allusions to climate change and the like, I just wasn’t sure what to do with them.
What's expected of us A small unsettling story that I think I read before it was published here. What would you do if it were proved that we had no free will?
The lifecycle of software objects Digients (essentially very advanced tamagotchis) are raised in virtual worlds. I wanted to love this story. Reading the author notes afterwards, I really wanted to love the story he said he was inspired to write, but the story he actually wrote was…hmm. He chose to write it in a very distanced, telling-not-showing style, which was jarring. And then the digients spoke like toddlers, even after years and years of literal schooling, and it was abrading my nerves long before the topic of essentially selling them for sex work was raised, at which point it started grating through my nerves into rage. This was…possibly the goal? But I feel like either he or I missed the point, if it was.
Dacey's patent automatic nanny A beautifully-voiced museum interpretation of an automated nanny: the horrible, 'rational' misogynistic man who thought up such a device, and the adult son who used it on the grandchild, and it was all deeply unsettling and very well done.
Up next:
The rest of Exhalation.
The girl who drank the moon by Kelly Barnhill which is on hold for me at the library.
Because internet which I've not bought yet, despite my excitement.
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