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wendymetcalfe, 28 days ago to sciencefiction in Notes from a year of reading science fiction and fantasy [potentially minor spoilers]

@CommanderZander @AFKBRBChocolate I'd say that was a wise choice. Player of Games is a much better book than the other.

wendymetcalfe, 7 months ago to sciencefiction in Just finished reading Annihilation - strange book

@AFKBRBChocolate Yep, it is. And creepy, too.

wendymetcalfe, 7 months ago to sciencefiction in What I felt after reading "All Systems Red" by Martha Wells

@AFKBRBChocolate @klemptor I've never imagined Murderbot as female. To me, it's always seemed closer to male.

wendymetcalfe, 7 months ago to sciencefiction in Powell’s Essential List: 25 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the 21st Century (So Far)

@AFKBRBChocolate Mmm. Got a long way through the list thinking "where are the women authors"? They did eventually appear, but not enough. No Aliette de Bodard? Several of the books on the list I've read and really don't rate. All Systems Red and The Long Way are books I return to again and again.

wendymetcalfe, 7 months ago to sciencefiction in Powell’s Essential List: 25 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the 21st Century (So Far)

@SzethFriendOfNimi @AFKBRBChocolate Yay, Me too.

wendymetcalfe, 8 months ago to sciencefiction in What are you Reading (September 2023)

@CuriousLibrarian @Izzy Love A Memory Called Empire.

wendymetcalfe, 9 months ago to sciencefiction in My thoughts on "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula Le Guin. (SPOILERS)

@Odo @Bebo Interesting to see her go back and clarify her thoughts over time in the essay. (I read the annotated version in Dreams Must Explain Themselves.