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Going on a trip to Hay-On-Wye today. Wish my bank account luck! :blobcatbook: #Bookstadon #Reading #Books #Booksky
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It is almost September, I need to finish my latest book so I can add it to my pile on the MS readathon. Been an excellent month of reading. We've raised almost a grand via our team, as well!
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I'm going to #lacon #Worldcon tomorrow.
Gotta rave about the best #book I picked up at #baycon:
Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai
There's a magic Chinese calligraphy artist and a French half-elf. And a spicy romance, but also a bunch of spy thriller stuff. It's a really nice mix and it works. The world is fun, the magic is cool, the people are real.
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I’m at that 2/3 point of a very good book where I really want it to resolve, but I also don’t ever want it to end.
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"That's not a repair technique," Lyra said, not looking up from the coil she was rewiring. "That's a tantrum."
"It's a percussive diagnostic."
"Uh huh."Ten years of partnership, distilled. From ZERO ATMOSPHERE, Ch. 1.
#amwriting #bookstadon #books #wip #writing #scifi #romance #indieauthor
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Hi Mastodon — new here, mostly to talk about a sci-fi romance novel I'm drafting: ZERO ATMOSPHERE. Sixty domed cities are all that's left of Earth. Two salvagers have spent ten years lying to (and for) each other. Chapters 1–6 are done, more coming. Mostly here for snippets, worldbuilding, and process talk. Nice to meet you.
#introduction #books #writing #indieauthor #scifi #romance #amwriting #bookstadon
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Greg Egan - The Clockwork Rocket. Orthogonal book 1
Greg Egan writes Science Fiction so hard, it could as well be called ‘Fictional Science’. Often SF starts from a question ‘what if?’
Egan's ‘what if’ is ‘what if the speed of light in a vacuum is not constant, but varies with its color?’. This leads to all sorts of speculative consequences that need to be explained. To be able to do that, he creates a main character that travels the distance from being born on a farm to being the world’s Einstein and mission leader for a generational ship trying to save the world. Where their universe is in a way more 4-dimensional than ours, but the characters in this novel are rather 2-dimensional.
The explanation stays at the conceptual level, a general understanding of ‘our physics’ is enough to grasp Egan’s explanations of ‘their physics’, including the graphs and schemas he uses.
But still this will not be everybody's cup of tea. Too much explanation, too little plot. But I really liked it. On to the 2nd book in the trilogy!
#WatWouterLas26 #ScienceFiction #SpeculativePhysics #Books # Reading #Bookstadon
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Fascinating project focused on fiction. If they added travelogues, Ibn Battuta’s the Journey (The Rihla) will most definitely break the scale 🫨
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A sexy dark and glittering jewel of a novel featuring Sapphic vampires and crumbling old Victorian estates with a cast of believable and enjoyable characters. #SapphicErotica #vampires #bookstadon #books #bookreview #HistoricFiction #Fiction #Horror
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🌳 🌫️ 🦌 #ThisThatAndTheOther #WebNovel
Chapter 21 published today
“...often, when a lesson needs to be learnt, a suitable teacher will present itself. It may not be a person. It could be an experience, an observation… something found in the natural world around you… Recognising the right teachers, at the right time, is the beginning of wisdom.”
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Hella S Haasse - Het woud der verwachting. Het leven van Charles van Orléans
Weer een boek dat in de middeleeuwen speelt, het derde in korte tijd. Deze historische roman beschrijft, na een flinke aanloop, het leven van Charles van Orléans (1394 - 1465), politiek gefaalde hertog maar geslaagd dichter.
Het feodale stelsel van Frankrijk was een broeinest van intriges. Nadat zijn vader in opdracht van diens neef was vermoord, was Charles te jong om zijn hertogschap aan te kunnen. Bij de slag bij Agincourt wordt hij door de Engelsen gevangen genomen en 25 jaar lang gebruikt als pion en verzekering. Ook nadat hij vrij gekomen is, blijft dat toch vooral zijn tragische rol; bespeeld te worden door handigere en eerzuchtigere geesten dan hijzelf.
Haasse beschrijft dit alles prachtig, ik las het boek met plezier. Wel is het weer een boek over de bovenkant. Want hoewel Charles natuurlijk een loser is, komen de echte verliezers, de arme boeren en ambachtslieden, niet echt aan bod. Soms in enkele regels wordt hun gruwelijke lot genoemd, maar dan gaat het weer uitgebreid over de pracht en praal in de kastelen.
Er zijn zat aanknopingspunten door te lezen, zo wil ik meer weten over Simon Caboche die de ‘slagersopstand’ leidde.
#WatWouterLas26 #Geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Bookstadon #LezenIsLeuk #Boeken
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🚀 Dive into the Zerra Series! 🌌
The future of humanity hangs in the balance. The Orion Alliance’s relentless conquest threatens to consume all in its path. But on the quiet planet of Zerra, a spark of resistance flickers. Will it be enough to save a galaxy on the brink?
My first book in the Zerra series is now available on Apple Books. A gripping space opera filled with intrigue, rebellion, & the fight for survival. 2 more books in the series await you!
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Hey #bookstadon I released my first fiction book a couple of months back. It's an absurdist fantasy-fiction called The Orcs are attacking and we're all out of ham and sees Sam win a major catering contract AND become the saviour of humanity on the same day
https://www.johnnyblanchard.com/2026/07/11/the-orcs-are-attacking-and-were-all-out-of-ham/ -
Scifi and Westerns go together like outlaws and jailbreaks.
Like spaceships and laser beams.
Like frontier towns and saloons.
Like robots and questioning the nature of sentience.All of which you'll find in Gas Giant Gambit.
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Don Quixote (Is a Very Big Book) at the #Fringe , a total delight https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/don-quixote-is-a-very-big-book
One man, with clever use of props & puppets, telling of that most excellent man of La Mancha. Venue 23, King Dome at Bristo Square.
I've long considered Quixote and Cyrano de Bergerac my cousins.
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #theatre #books #livres #DonQuixote #bookstadon
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#AmReading: WHAT'S A LITTLE BLACKMAIL BETWEEN FRIENDS by Lynn Morrison. It's a fun first book in a new series. In 1868, rules for women's behavior in the upper echelons of British society were stifling. Lady Edith Redgrave (Etty, to her friends and family) has become expert in small acts of rebellion.
Then her best friend asks her to break all those rules to help her avoid a scandal. What's a well brought up young lady to do?
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With a mid-afternoon dentist appointment, followed by a few necessary errands, and then an inconveniently timed old man beer league hockey game, I have only a couple of hours to work on my outline today.
Hopefully that'll translate into a wedge or two. I've love to have the 2nd act done tomorrow.
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Guten Morgen und willkommen zum Bookreview: Heute stelle ich euch „Der Frauenmörder von Boston“ aus der Reihe „Sherlock Holmes: Die geheimen Fälle des Meisterdetektivs“ von Titania Medien vor. Was verschlägt Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson nach Amerika? Wie gelungen ist diese Fortführung nach Motiven von Arthur Conan Doyle? Meine Einschätzung zum Werk gibt es in der heutigen Buchvorstellung.
Link zum Podcast: https://wonderl.ink/@dailyklappentext
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Gas Giant Gambit has 10 reviews on Goodreads and 9 on StoryGraph, with averages of 4.15 and 4.19, respectively.
I would LOVE to double that total. Have you read it?
Have you left a review?