Someone told me they saw Colonel Sanders's bow tie as a little dancing body and now I can't unsee it
#amreading “Apocalypse Nyx” by Kameron Hurley. Gritty SF action-thriller (actually a collection of novellas). Tough women. Guns. Bug-based technology. Recommended if you like those things, or if you like grizzled action-movie protagonists but wish they weren’t all guys.
From a RP:
"Maybe it's like model railroads? You start with like, two feet of track and one car and the next thing you know you have a clockwork murder dungeon."
"Galactic Community: Oh no, a giant cylinder is destroying Earth, what will we do?
Kirk: I’m gonna take this stolen Klingon Kia that we barely know how to fly and was dispensing poison food up until last week, and I’m gonna time travel into the past convince some whales to come back with us, abduct a marine biologist, and let the two crew drunks change the course of history by giving out futuristic tech. So no worries, right?"
Good news! A grant proposal for which I consult has been recommended for funding.
Formal decision probably this week, but rare for any trouble twixt one and t'other.
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I feel like Lola Bunny did a much better job of convincing kids of the 90s to be furries than it did of convincing anyone that Bugs is straight.
"This is a travesty," the dwarf muttered into his wine goblet, standing beside the buffet table.
An old human nearby jerked her head and hissed, "How can you say that? Haven't you ever seen two men more in love?"
The dwarf's face reddened as he grumbled dourly, "It's... not THAT at all... it's..."
"Because one's an elf and one's an orc?" accused the human.
"What, no! ...Though what DOES K'ord have that I don't?" sniffled the dwarf.
The only good thing about Hollywood these days is the dramatic rise in roles that Jessica Chastain can drive a film along in and completely own to the extent that it’s embarrassing for a male actor to be onscreen near her
Elon Musk's mission to turn Mars into an ancap utopia is only more painful to witness as a person who loved KSR's Red Mars in general, and Arkady in particular.
Anyway, here's a photograph of a beautiful sunset that a robot took from the surface of another planet, then beamed back to us at the speed of light.
Ok, I'm done!
#amreading Stormhaven, third book in Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin series. Genre-blend between (m/m) romance and Lovecraftian horror adventure. Explicitly Lovecraftian, though the gay leads would have appalled him.
I'm ok with that.
Plus their friend Christine, a kick-ass and wholly inappropriate Egyptologist.
I"m not very far into this one yet.
#sffbookclub #romance #queer #WhyborneAndGriffin #JordanLHawk
#amreading Ally by K. Eason. Third (latest and I think last) in a dark fantasy series, On the Bones of Gods. Secondary world #fantasy. Three main characters. The dominant society are a lot like #DnD #drow, crossed with the Roman Republic. The main characters include a half-breed gangster/assassin/chirurgeon/sorcerer, a high-ranking Senator's daughter, and an exiled Viking (more or less). Good stuff.
#amreading (listening to) Naamah's Curse by #JacquelineCarey. This is the second book in the third and last #Kushielverse trilogy, in the setting that began with #KushielsDart, roughly 100-120 years later.
A medieval historical fantasy where the land that we know as France was settled by descendants of literal angels. Everyone is beautiful, courtesan is a respected profession, any consensual sex is sacred.
The earlier trilogies are not needed for enjoyment. The books are long.
#amreading Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine and Anne Aguirre. (I'll read almost anything by Caine.)
Young adult SF that is *not* a dystopia. Main character is a teen girl of color who rejects the utopia to live in the Detroit slums until she's selected for a trip with the living spaceships who brought the utopia.
Second perspective character is the ship (who is explicitly #nonbinary).
Good stuff. Two books are out.
#RachelCaine #AnneAguirre #Honors #sffbookclub #sciencefiction #youngadult
I love that Peter Stormare still actually acts, when he could get away with playing himself. #longmire