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Scifi where the alien can be read through the lens of OCD, cosmic horror *and* kink shame?… ur speaking to my soul Stani… in a dreadfully engrossing way… 5 stars
Jan 31, 2024
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Obsessed with this Chinese sci-fi novel right now. It's putting to words a lot of the unavoidable existential dread that we're all trying to ignore. I'm not usually a big fan of super hard sci-fi because I'm for the most part scientifically illiterate, but this book does such a good job of making physics poetic and kind of horrifying.
Sep 20, 2022
In a far distant future when the Sun is dying + the Earth along with it, a journeyman torturer disgraces his guild and is banished to a distant town to serve as a headsman. The text is ostensibly a translation of his recovered memoir in which he recounts his travels.
It’s a masterful puzzle box that rewards an attentive reader. The protagonist is an annoying liar (I personally found this a challenging and engaging thing about the text). I highly recommend Ada Palmer’s introduction, if you can find that particular edition.
This is the book that got me back into sci-fi but it’s not a particularly casual read.
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Sometimes society just doesn’t deserve my presence! Sorry bout it!
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Play as pizza delivery boy Pepper Roni to take down The Brickster, “a criminal mastermind who loves anchovies and hot peppers.”
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