#PopsugarReadingChallenge Book 13: a book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author. "Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back," edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka, and Daniel Sluman.
Least favorite trope: the screaming argument that leads to sex, especially when the argument is over his sexist or generally jerkish behavior toward her.
THE PELICAN HAS LANDED!
The galaxy is a mess: wars, robot uprisings, Jupiterans making bad holofilms, Plutonians insisting they have a real planet, and Earthlings kissing (which is unhygienic and resembles cannibalism). In the Pelican Nebula, the Cygnoids call a peace conference to announce a non-optional solution: obey them or be subjected to the unthinkable agony of their new weapon, the Civilizer.