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  1. @Impossible_PhD
    Just finished . It was awesome! One of the best reads in the genre I’ve read in a while.

  2. @Impossible_PhD
    Just finished #Nameless. It was awesome! One of the best reads in the #NotQuiteDystopian genre I’ve read in a while.

  3. @Impossible_PhD
    Just finished #Nameless. It was awesome! One of the best reads in the #NotQuiteDystopian genre I’ve read in a while.

  4. @Impossible_PhD
    Just finished #Nameless. It was awesome! One of the best reads in the #NotQuiteDystopian genre I’ve read in a while.

  5. @Impossible_PhD
    Just finished #Nameless. It was awesome! One of the best reads in the #NotQuiteDystopian genre I’ve read in a while.

  6. @jeffowski

    We should read Thomas Wolfe every now and then...

    "Proud Death, proud Death, whom I have seen by darkness, at so many times, and always when you came to nameless men, what have you ever touched that you have not touched with love and pity, Death?

    Proud Death, wherever we have seen your face, you came with mercy, love, and pity, Death, and brought to all of us your compassionate sentences of pardon and release. For have you not retrieved from exile the desperate lives of men who never found their home?

    Have you not opened your dark door for us who never yet found doors to enter and given us a room who, roomless, doorless, unassuaged, were driven on forever through the streets of life?

    Have you not offered us your stern provender, Death, with which to stay the hunger that grew to madness from the food it fed upon, and given all of us the goal for which we sought but never found, the certitude, the peace, for which our overladen hearts contended, and made for us, in your dark house, an end of all the tortured wandering and unrest that lashed us on forever?

    Proud Death, proud Death, not for the glory that you added to the glory of the king, proud Death, nor for the honor that you imposed upon the dignities of famous men, proud Death, nor for the final magic that you have given to the lips of genius, Death, but because you come so gloriously to us who never yet knew glory, so proudly and sublimely to us whose lives were nameless and obscure, because you give to all of us—the nameless, faceless, voiceless atoms of the earth—the awful chrism of your grandeur, Death, because I have seen and known you so well, and have lived alone so long with Loneliness, your brother, I do not fear you any longer, friend, and have made this praise for you."

    (By: Thomas Wolfe, "DEATH THE PROUD BROTHER")

    #thomaswolfe #lonely #loneliness #nameless #einsamkeit #alleinsein #mai #tanzindenmai #death #faceless #voiceless #forgottenbooks #darkness

  7. @jeffowski

    We should read Thomas Wolfe every now and then...

    "Proud Death, proud Death, whom I have seen by darkness, at so many times, and always when you came to nameless men, what have you ever touched that you have not touched with love and pity, Death?

    Proud Death, wherever we have seen your face, you came with mercy, love, and pity, Death, and brought to all of us your compassionate sentences of pardon and release. For have you not retrieved from exile the desperate lives of men who never found their home?

    Have you not opened your dark door for us who never yet found doors to enter and given us a room who, roomless, doorless, unassuaged, were driven on forever through the streets of life?

    Have you not offered us your stern provender, Death, with which to stay the hunger that grew to madness from the food it fed upon, and given all of us the goal for which we sought but never found, the certitude, the peace, for which our overladen hearts contended, and made for us, in your dark house, an end of all the tortured wandering and unrest that lashed us on forever?

    Proud Death, proud Death, not for the glory that you added to the glory of the king, proud Death, nor for the honor that you imposed upon the dignities of famous men, proud Death, nor for the final magic that you have given to the lips of genius, Death, but because you come so gloriously to us who never yet knew glory, so proudly and sublimely to us whose lives were nameless and obscure, because you give to all of us—the nameless, faceless, voiceless atoms of the earth—the awful chrism of your grandeur, Death, because I have seen and known you so well, and have lived alone so long with Loneliness, your brother, I do not fear you any longer, friend, and have made this praise for you."

    (By: Thomas Wolfe, "DEATH THE PROUD BROTHER")

    #thomaswolfe #lonely #loneliness #nameless #einsamkeit #alleinsein #mai #tanzindenmai #death #faceless #voiceless #forgottenbooks #darkness

  8. @jeffowski

    We should read Thomas Wolfe every now and then...

    "Proud Death, proud Death, whom I have seen by darkness, at so many times, and always when you came to nameless men, what have you ever touched that you have not touched with love and pity, Death?

    Proud Death, wherever we have seen your face, you came with mercy, love, and pity, Death, and brought to all of us your compassionate sentences of pardon and release. For have you not retrieved from exile the desperate lives of men who never found their home?

    Have you not opened your dark door for us who never yet found doors to enter and given us a room who, roomless, doorless, unassuaged, were driven on forever through the streets of life?

    Have you not offered us your stern provender, Death, with which to stay the hunger that grew to madness from the food it fed upon, and given all of us the goal for which we sought but never found, the certitude, the peace, for which our overladen hearts contended, and made for us, in your dark house, an end of all the tortured wandering and unrest that lashed us on forever?

    Proud Death, proud Death, not for the glory that you added to the glory of the king, proud Death, nor for the honor that you imposed upon the dignities of famous men, proud Death, nor for the final magic that you have given to the lips of genius, Death, but because you come so gloriously to us who never yet knew glory, so proudly and sublimely to us whose lives were nameless and obscure, because you give to all of us—the nameless, faceless, voiceless atoms of the earth—the awful chrism of your grandeur, Death, because I have seen and known you so well, and have lived alone so long with Loneliness, your brother, I do not fear you any longer, friend, and have made this praise for you."

    (By: Thomas Wolfe, "DEATH THE PROUD BROTHER")

    #thomaswolfe #lonely #loneliness #nameless #einsamkeit #alleinsein #mai #tanzindenmai #death #faceless #voiceless #forgottenbooks #darkness

  9. @jeffowski

    We should read Thomas Wolfe every now and then...

    "Proud Death, proud Death, whom I have seen by darkness, at so many times, and always when you came to nameless men, what have you ever touched that you have not touched with love and pity, Death?

    Proud Death, wherever we have seen your face, you came with mercy, love, and pity, Death, and brought to all of us your compassionate sentences of pardon and release. For have you not retrieved from exile the desperate lives of men who never found their home?

    Have you not opened your dark door for us who never yet found doors to enter and given us a room who, roomless, doorless, unassuaged, were driven on forever through the streets of life?

    Have you not offered us your stern provender, Death, with which to stay the hunger that grew to madness from the food it fed upon, and given all of us the goal for which we sought but never found, the certitude, the peace, for which our overladen hearts contended, and made for us, in your dark house, an end of all the tortured wandering and unrest that lashed us on forever?

    Proud Death, proud Death, not for the glory that you added to the glory of the king, proud Death, nor for the honor that you imposed upon the dignities of famous men, proud Death, nor for the final magic that you have given to the lips of genius, Death, but because you come so gloriously to us who never yet knew glory, so proudly and sublimely to us whose lives were nameless and obscure, because you give to all of us—the nameless, faceless, voiceless atoms of the earth—the awful chrism of your grandeur, Death, because I have seen and known you so well, and have lived alone so long with Loneliness, your brother, I do not fear you any longer, friend, and have made this praise for you."

    (By: Thomas Wolfe, "DEATH THE PROUD BROTHER")

    #thomaswolfe #lonely #loneliness #nameless #einsamkeit #alleinsein #mai #tanzindenmai #death #faceless #voiceless #forgottenbooks #darkness

  10. @jeffowski

    We should read Thomas Wolfe every now and then...

    "Proud Death, proud Death, whom I have seen by darkness, at so many times, and always when you came to nameless men, what have you ever touched that you have not touched with love and pity, Death?

    Proud Death, wherever we have seen your face, you came with mercy, love, and pity, Death, and brought to all of us your compassionate sentences of pardon and release. For have you not retrieved from exile the desperate lives of men who never found their home?

    Have you not opened your dark door for us who never yet found doors to enter and given us a room who, roomless, doorless, unassuaged, were driven on forever through the streets of life?

    Have you not offered us your stern provender, Death, with which to stay the hunger that grew to madness from the food it fed upon, and given all of us the goal for which we sought but never found, the certitude, the peace, for which our overladen hearts contended, and made for us, in your dark house, an end of all the tortured wandering and unrest that lashed us on forever?

    Proud Death, proud Death, not for the glory that you added to the glory of the king, proud Death, nor for the honor that you imposed upon the dignities of famous men, proud Death, nor for the final magic that you have given to the lips of genius, Death, but because you come so gloriously to us who never yet knew glory, so proudly and sublimely to us whose lives were nameless and obscure, because you give to all of us—the nameless, faceless, voiceless atoms of the earth—the awful chrism of your grandeur, Death, because I have seen and known you so well, and have lived alone so long with Loneliness, your brother, I do not fear you any longer, friend, and have made this praise for you."

    (By: Thomas Wolfe, "DEATH THE PROUD BROTHER")

    #thomaswolfe #lonely #loneliness #nameless #einsamkeit #alleinsein #mai #tanzindenmai #death #faceless #voiceless #forgottenbooks #darkness

  11. My hard copy of #Nameless arrived yesterday, and thank you @Impossible_PhD for signing it 💜

    Now to continue my search for the challenge 😁

  12. My hard copy of #Nameless arrived yesterday, and thank you @Impossible_PhD for signing it 💜

    Now to continue my search for the challenge 😁

  13. My hard copy of #Nameless arrived yesterday, and thank you @Impossible_PhD for signing it 💜

    Now to continue my search for the challenge 😁

  14. My hard copy of #Nameless arrived yesterday, and thank you @Impossible_PhD for signing it 💜

    Now to continue my search for the challenge 😁

  15. My hard copy of #Nameless arrived yesterday, and thank you @Impossible_PhD for signing it 💜

    Now to continue my search for the challenge 😁

  16. The setting feels very familiar if you've read William Gibson: weak governments, lawless places, ethical hackers, feudal structures with the very rich doing what they like while everyone else is on their own; shiny nanotechnology and the subsequent rise in value for naturally grown materials like wood.

    (The latter is particularly nicely shown-not-told by characters always noticing wooden objects.)

    But the characters are a nice fresh spin on Gibson's characters:

    (3/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  17. The book would have benefitted from more editing, here are some formatting issues and a nonbinary character who uses they/them pronouns is suddenly talked about using he/him pronouns for a few paragraphs until the pronouns switch back.

    But all in all, an absolutely enjoyable read.

    (5/n, n=5)

    #Nameless #Booka2026

  18. women who are neither delicate flowers nor die-hard badasses. The Minnesotan winter setting was also neat and I suspect Minneapolis natives will enjoy it a lot more than I did.

    The story was... a little too easily resolved in my opinion. Satisfying but too easy. And I have other minor worldbuilding quibbles; I'm not buying the US dominance here.

    (4/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  19. women who are neither delicate flowers nor die-hard badasses. The Minnesotan winter setting was also neat and I suspect Minneapolis natives will enjoy it a lot more than I did.

    The story was... a little too easily resolved in my opinion. Satisfying but too easy. And I have other minor worldbuilding quibbles; I'm not buying the US dominance here.

    (4/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  20. The setting feels very familiar if you've read William Gibson: weak governments, lawless places, ethical hackers, feudal structures with the very rich doing what they like while everyone else is on their own; shiny nanotechnology and the subsequent rise in value for naturally grown materials like wood.

    (The latter is particularly nicely shown-not-told by characters always noticing wooden objects.)

    But the characters are a nice fresh spin on Gibson's characters:

    (3/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  21. The book would have benefitted from more editing, here are some formatting issues and a nonbinary character who uses they/them pronouns is suddenly talked about using he/him pronouns for a few paragraphs until the pronouns switch back.

    But all in all, an absolutely enjoyable read.

    (5/n, n=5)

    #Nameless #Booka2026

  22. The book would have benefitted from more editing, here are some formatting issues and a nonbinary character who uses they/them pronouns is suddenly talked about using he/him pronouns for a few paragraphs until the pronouns switch back.

    But all in all, an absolutely enjoyable read.

    (5/n, n=5)

    #Nameless #Booka2026

  23. The setting feels very familiar if you've read William Gibson: weak governments, lawless places, ethical hackers, feudal structures with the very rich doing what they like while everyone else is on their own; shiny nanotechnology and the subsequent rise in value for naturally grown materials like wood.

    (The latter is particularly nicely shown-not-told by characters always noticing wooden objects.)

    But the characters are a nice fresh spin on Gibson's characters:

    (3/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  24. women who are neither delicate flowers nor die-hard badasses. The Minnesotan winter setting was also neat and I suspect Minneapolis natives will enjoy it a lot more than I did.

    The story was... a little too easily resolved in my opinion. Satisfying but too easy. And I have other minor worldbuilding quibbles; I'm not buying the US dominance here.

    (4/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  25. The setting feels very familiar if you've read William Gibson: weak governments, lawless places, ethical hackers, feudal structures with the very rich doing what they like while everyone else is on their own; shiny nanotechnology and the subsequent rise in value for naturally grown materials like wood.

    (The latter is particularly nicely shown-not-told by characters always noticing wooden objects.)

    But the characters are a nice fresh spin on Gibson's characters:

    (3/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  26. women who are neither delicate flowers nor die-hard badasses. The Minnesotan winter setting was also neat and I suspect Minneapolis natives will enjoy it a lot more than I did.

    The story was... a little too easily resolved in my opinion. Satisfying but too easy. And I have other minor worldbuilding quibbles; I'm not buying the US dominance here.

    (4/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  27. The book would have benefitted from more editing, here are some formatting issues and a nonbinary character who uses they/them pronouns is suddenly talked about using he/him pronouns for a few paragraphs until the pronouns switch back.

    But all in all, an absolutely enjoyable read.

    (5/n, n=5)

    #Nameless #Booka2026

  28. The book would have benefitted from more editing, here are some formatting issues and a nonbinary character who uses they/them pronouns is suddenly talked about using he/him pronouns for a few paragraphs until the pronouns switch back.

    But all in all, an absolutely enjoyable read.

    (5/n, n=5)

    #Nameless #Booka2026

  29. women who are neither delicate flowers nor die-hard badasses. The Minnesotan winter setting was also neat and I suspect Minneapolis natives will enjoy it a lot more than I did.

    The story was... a little too easily resolved in my opinion. Satisfying but too easy. And I have other minor worldbuilding quibbles; I'm not buying the US dominance here.

    (4/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  30. The setting feels very familiar if you've read William Gibson: weak governments, lawless places, ethical hackers, feudal structures with the very rich doing what they like while everyone else is on their own; shiny nanotechnology and the subsequent rise in value for naturally grown materials like wood.

    (The latter is particularly nicely shown-not-told by characters always noticing wooden objects.)

    But the characters are a nice fresh spin on Gibson's characters:

    (3/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  31. the victim's body has been decomposed into raw materials using reprogrammed nanites.

    Their investigation leads them to a conspiracy involving the inventor of the nanites technology, the military, and the two largest local (which means Minneapolis) companies. It leads them to posh corporate goons and lawless parts of the city and into Satya's traumatic experiences during a recent war, which include being half dissolved by nanites.

    (2/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  32. So, "Nameless" by Zoe Ann Wendler. Cyberpunk, nanites, crime, an odd pair, and queer main characters, fuck yeah!

    In a world where almost everything can be "made" from raw materials using nanites, we meet our main characters: war veteran, makershop owner and government contractor Satya and lawful good newly-minted homicide detective Dan. They're trying to solve a near-perfect crime:

    (1/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  33. the victim's body has been decomposed into raw materials using reprogrammed nanites.

    Their investigation leads them to a conspiracy involving the inventor of the nanites technology, the military, and the two largest local (which means Minneapolis) companies. It leads them to posh corporate goons and lawless parts of the city and into Satya's traumatic experiences during a recent war, which include being half dissolved by nanites.

    (2/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  34. So, "Nameless" by Zoe Ann Wendler. Cyberpunk, nanites, crime, an odd pair, and queer main characters, fuck yeah!

    In a world where almost everything can be "made" from raw materials using nanites, we meet our main characters: war veteran, makershop owner and government contractor Satya and lawful good newly-minted homicide detective Dan. They're trying to solve a near-perfect crime:

    (1/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  35. So, "Nameless" by Zoe Ann Wendler. Cyberpunk, nanites, crime, an odd pair, and queer main characters, fuck yeah!

    In a world where almost everything can be "made" from raw materials using nanites, we meet our main characters: war veteran, makershop owner and government contractor Satya and lawful good newly-minted homicide detective Dan. They're trying to solve a near-perfect crime:

    (1/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  36. the victim's body has been decomposed into raw materials using reprogrammed nanites.

    Their investigation leads them to a conspiracy involving the inventor of the nanites technology, the military, and the two largest local (which means Minneapolis) companies. It leads them to posh corporate goons and lawless parts of the city and into Satya's traumatic experiences during a recent war, which include being half dissolved by nanites.

    (2/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  37. So, "Nameless" by Zoe Ann Wendler. Cyberpunk, nanites, crime, an odd pair, and queer main characters, fuck yeah!

    In a world where almost everything can be "made" from raw materials using nanites, we meet our main characters: war veteran, makershop owner and government contractor Satya and lawful good newly-minted homicide detective Dan. They're trying to solve a near-perfect crime:

    (1/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  38. the victim's body has been decomposed into raw materials using reprogrammed nanites.

    Their investigation leads them to a conspiracy involving the inventor of the nanites technology, the military, and the two largest local (which means Minneapolis) companies. It leads them to posh corporate goons and lawless parts of the city and into Satya's traumatic experiences during a recent war, which include being half dissolved by nanites.

    (2/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  39. the victim's body has been decomposed into raw materials using reprogrammed nanites.

    Their investigation leads them to a conspiracy involving the inventor of the nanites technology, the military, and the two largest local (which means Minneapolis) companies. It leads them to posh corporate goons and lawless parts of the city and into Satya's traumatic experiences during a recent war, which include being half dissolved by nanites.

    (2/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  40. So, "Nameless" by Zoe Ann Wendler. Cyberpunk, nanites, crime, an odd pair, and queer main characters, fuck yeah!

    In a world where almost everything can be "made" from raw materials using nanites, we meet our main characters: war veteran, makershop owner and government contractor Satya and lawful good newly-minted homicide detective Dan. They're trying to solve a near-perfect crime:

    (1/n)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  41. CW: Major spoiler "Nameless"

    I still can't decide whether I like that even the cat lives (because obviously, that's how it should be) or find the ending cloyingly sweet (happily ever after, all loose ends nearly tied, even the cat lives).

    I like it when things end well, but it's a fine line, apparently.

    #Nameless #Books2026

  42. CW: Major spoiler "Nameless"

    I still can't decide whether I like that even the cat lives (because obviously, that's how it should be) or find the ending cloyingly sweet (happily ever after, all loose ends nearly tied, even the cat lives).

    I like it when things end well, but it's a fine line, apparently.

    #Nameless #Books2026

  43. CW: Major spoiler "Nameless"

    I still can't decide whether I like that even the cat lives (because obviously, that's how it should be) or find the ending cloyingly sweet (happily ever after, all loose ends nearly tied, even the cat lives).

    I like it when things end well, but it's a fine line, apparently.

    #Nameless #Books2026

  44. CW: Major spoiler "Nameless"

    I still can't decide whether I like that even the cat lives (because obviously, that's how it should be) or find the ending cloyingly sweet (happily ever after, all loose ends nearly tied, even the cat lives).

    I like it when things end well, but it's a fine line, apparently.

    #Nameless #Books2026

  45. CW: Major spoiler "Nameless"

    I still can't decide whether I like that even the cat lives (because obviously, that's how it should be) or find the ending cloyingly sweet (happily ever after, all loose ends nearly tied, even the cat lives).

    I like it when things end well, but it's a fine line, apparently.

    #Nameless #Books2026

  46. Developing a very obviously potentially harmful technology is fine, but forging consent forms makes you want to quit?

    Wow.

    Realistic, maybe. People are like that, and Nat willfully ignored what other uses the tech could have. But, wow.

    #Nameless #Books2026

  47. Developing a very obviously potentially harmful technology is fine, but forging consent forms makes you want to quit?

    Wow.

    Realistic, maybe. People are like that, and Nat willfully ignored what other uses the tech could have. But, wow.

    #Nameless #Books2026