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  1. @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

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

    Now to continue my search for the challenge 😁

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 😭😭😭

    I just finished #Nameless - and I can't wait to be able to read it again 💜. It was such a delight to read, and had me guessing all the way to the end.

    Thank you so much @Impossible_PhD 🙏

  11. "The chaotic, shifting light from the neon signs made it hard to even identify the gender of each, to say nothing of their ethnicities or facial features."

    That might be because only one of these things can be identified by visual inspection, eh.

    #Nameless #Books2026

  12. "Everyone forgets that what one person wants is basically the same as what everyone else wants. Comfort, warmth, food, and a little privacy. You think of lawless places and imagine blasted-out hellholes. People are people."

    Something to remember, heading into apocalyptic times.

    #Nameless #Books2026

  13. "The relative warmth inside was welcome, even if it was still only fifty degrees or so."

    Argh it's always the same!

    Me: *reads "only fifty degrees"*

    Me: 🤔 "only"?!

    Me: 💡ah yes. Fahrenheit. 🙄

    Me: *does conversion*

    Me: okay, ten degrees Celsius, yeah, not that warm

    (Apparently, even though this isn't the US but a united North America, the non-SI units persist)

    #Nameless #Books2026

  14. "These are our most precious secrets, and they exist nowhere in any digital format. Part of my job, in point of fact, is to protect them." "I don't get it," Satya said. Dan shook her head a bit in amazement. "It's the oldest form of security there is," Dan said. "Quantum computing makes digital security unreliable at best"

    Hah. I love it.

    #Nameless #Books2026

  15. What! Why? How? What!

    Lunchtime reading #Nameless is going to have me watching the clock until I can read on the way home again 😄☺️💜

    @Impossible_PhD

  16. Interesting focus on *materials*: there's the nanotech, of course, like Gibson's or Stephenson's, building all kinds of things from pure carbon and other raw materials. There's the body, stripped to component materials. But there are also a lot of wooden things: desks, chairs.

    Is having wooden stuff, not made by a maker but naturally grown, a status marker?

    #Nameless #Books2026

  17. "It's not a design," Satya said. "It's calligraphy." She paused for a bit, then continued, "It says 'a love of cats is an aspect of faith.' More or less. It’s hadith. It's better in Arabic."

    💙

    #Nameless #Books2026

  18. "You know, they gave me a file to read about you before I came out.” "Anything interesting?" Satya asked. "I dunno. Outed you in the first two sentences, so I just stopped reading. Nobody who cares that much about someone being queer has anything useful to say about them"

    True 👍🏻

    #Nameless #Books2026

  19. "<$ave0RDi3>: they're claiming the unemployment rate's 60.4%
    <$ave0RDi3>: real data's at 67.8
    <C3r3al_K|llr>: shit
    <flutterbye>: wow
    <Anonymous User 13>: they cook the books?
    <$ave0RDi3>: have done for years <$ave0RDi3>: keeping the rate below 62 or something is supposed to be good for reelection"

    Ouch and also nice worldbuilding here with the absurdly high number!

    #Nameless #Books2026

  20. New book: "Nameless" by Zoe Ann Wendler (@Impossible_PhD)!

    Impulse-bought because queer cyberpunk in Minnesota, what's not to like?!

    #Nameless #Books2026

  21. Around 57 minutes of space-post-metal provided by @venera.band.official on the timeline 🤘🏻😎

    Check out "Venera - Singularity" on:
    www.veneraband.bandcamp.com

    ... and some free ARL3CCH1NO-music on various platforms 😏:
    www.linktr.ee/ARL3CCH1NO

    #Venera #Singularity #synthwave #ARL3CCH1NO #Psyche #Isolation #Medication #Reconstrucdead #remix #soundtrack #postmetal #postrock #industrialmetal #triphop #nameless

  22. #Draw a #Distinction // Triff eine #Unterscheidung;

    Nur #innerhalb einer #Welt, in der alles #bezeichenbar ist, ist es #logisch, dass insofern, also als #Kalkül, mit #allem #gerechnet werden kann.

    #Berechenbarkeit #Logik #Erfassbarkeit
    Differenz von #Innen und #Außen.

    無名天地之始 (Wúmíng tiāndì zhī shǐ) - The #beginning of a #nameless #world/ Der #Anfang einer #namenlos​en #Welt

    #Laws of #Form, George-Spencer #Brown

    #Kalkül der #Form, Dirk #Baecker, Vorwort