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I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick.I thought it was entertaining! Really brilliant concepts, I love how this was the genesis of Blade Runner, I can see the clear inspo. I do think the book is a bit better for being shorter while conveying the same thing One thing that made me feel gross was every time a woman appeared in the book, the author kept going on about her breasts. Not very cool at all.#book #books #booksky #bookstodon #reading #readingcommunity

@Gillinger Thanks for sending that to me! Hope to read it soon.

So Artemis by Andy Weir was extremely disappointing and a skip half the book to the final chapter...one of the worst male-written female characters I've seen. Yikes. It's as bad as The Martin/Project Hail Mary are good...not sure I'd read his future books based on how bad this one is. #Bookstodon

@TexasObserver @bookstodon Congratulations

We definitely follow the Japanese method, here.#books #reading #tsundoku #bookstodon

A good cover design, combined with a good title, can catch my interest enough to check the book in first place.A good spine design also, for the same reason. Which I feel it's often ignored.

@boxofdelightsDepends a bit on the interests of the teenager. Into rhe blue my three suggestions for series: Sprawl trilogy, The Expanse, Takeshi Kovacs.

@susankayequinn Your books are also available on Libristo.eu, which is a great non-Amazon option in the EU.I recently found Libristo and have so far been very happy with it. The orders may take a month to deliver if you order something they don't have in stock right away, but hey, at least you don't have to buy from Amazon.

The ARC of my new novella is now ready, via BookSirens. It's a #solarpunk story set in an African nation without capitalism, or governments and politicians, and centers on a 70yr old peasant woman who has to coordinate the defense of the country when a colonizer invades. https://booksirens.com/book/BUG035E/WXLHD4WYou can also pre-order the book, or read a sample, without any sign-in, on this link https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/#books #bookstodon #sff #scifi #writing #writingcommunity #reading

The reason I had to write it down was that nobody had ever told me what it was like - Joan Didion#writing #bookstodon #joandidion #quotes

Award winning SFF author @rsagarcia is asking for help while she continues her cancer battles; can you help? #SFF #writingCommunity #bookstodon #GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a-garcia-pay-for-cancer-expenses/cl/d?utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&utm_content=amp20_t2&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&attribution_id=sl%3A7e598a31-d5ea-4ea9-84ec-d8c95e238d22

The missus and I have been binging T. Kingfisher fantasy novels and this week I learned they had a hand drawn, graphic novel, released originally as a webcomic. Absolutely delightful. #webcomic #bookstodon #tkingfisher https://diggercomic.com/

Because librarians ARE magic! 🪄#bookmemes #getnotified #bookstodon

Weekend reading! Getting into Confounding Oaths. I don't love the narrator but book 1 was fun so I do expect good things. Looking at the dull as dishwater synopsis, I'm not sure what to expect from Lessons in Chemistry. It's probably an important book but doesn't sound interesting. I hope it's better than it sounds. #amreading #books #bookstodon

@projektmyra Interesting. So you have that option in Libby to "read with Kindle?" I definitely do not, in Canada.

@nocto I really appreciated A City on Mars as well. One of the things I really took away from it is how little thought and research has been done on the nitty-gritty of living off earth. For example, Musk has ranted for years about how he's going to send people to Mars in the near future (before abruptly switching to the Moon) but has never even tried to create a closed-cycle ecology or reliable power source that would be a necessity. The Weinersmiths are great on this.

@readit I did, and loved it. I also strongly recommend "The General in His Labyrinth"

Oh, no. Just learned that one of my favorite mystery/suspense authors, Thomas Perry, died late last year. So sad. If you like the mystery/suspense genre, I suggest you read Metzger's Dog, and then proceed to his other works. Truly gifted, amazing writer. #Bookstodon

@redheadedfemme You're apparently not the only one who thinks highly of it, I'm now 30th in line for it at my library. Thanks for the recommendation!

@Schafstelze just because it’s excellent. This is a sequel to ‘shades of grey’, which was published about a decade and half ago (not so dissimilar a time to that other very different shades of grey), and many of us had been waiting eagerly for it even since. It was finally published in 2024, but if you missed that, you might have given up actively looking!