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Book Review: To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X Chang
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods is a novel that is mostly an allegory about Western Colonialism/Imperialism. The setting is China in an alternate universe with magic. This version of China is being invaded by another, “science” based alternate universe where Rome never fell. The situation roughly parallels historical Western Colonialism/Imperialism and a great deal of…
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Book Review: Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie
The stories in Ann Leckie’s Lake of Souls hover somewhere between The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits in regard to their content and endings. There are a number of ironic twists, there is a story that absolutely isn’t a First Contact, a story that isn’t quite Cosmic Horror and a story that seems to…
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Book Review: Lyorn by Steven Brust
Lyorn is a lot to wrap your mind around, and it does not at first seem like something you should need to wrap your mind around. I am guessing this is not long after the events of Tsalmoth. Vlad has his memories back and knows why he agreed to being mindwiped in the first place.…
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Book Review: Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall
Women! In! Peril! is a collection of short stories, most of which were not in my wheelhouse. (I got this galley from NetGalley thinking there would be more science fiction or fantasy stories, but it turns out there weren’t that many. This was somewhat disappointing.) My reviews are going to be focused on the science…
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This Update Has Test Anxiety
So, Tuesday I had to have a pulmonary function test, which involved blowing air into various plastic tubes and having testing anxiety. Because as they say, scoring well on a test that’s intended to find out how bad your lungs are is normal to want, and possible to achieve. (I got an A in “can’t…
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