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"Take the photo, TAKE THE PHOTO!"
"I can't believe you had to spend 15 minutes cleaning just for a stupid Pixelfed photo."
"Have you seen how I live? People have been judging me."
"Next time we do date night, I want to book an Air Bnb."
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"Take the photo, TAKE THE PHOTO!"
"I can't believe you had to spend 15 minutes cleaning just for a stupid Pixelfed photo."
"Have you seen how I live? People have been judging me."
"Next time we do date night, I want to book an Air Bnb."
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"Take the photo, TAKE THE PHOTO!"
"I can't believe you had to spend 15 minutes cleaning just for a stupid Pixelfed photo."
"Have you seen how I live? People have been judging me."
"Next time we do date night, I want to book an Air Bnb."
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"Take the photo, TAKE THE PHOTO!"
"I can't believe you had to spend 15 minutes cleaning just for a stupid Pixelfed photo."
"Have you seen how I live? People have been judging me."
"Next time we do date night, I want to book an Air Bnb."
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"Take the photo, TAKE THE PHOTO!"
"I can't believe you had to spend 15 minutes cleaning just for a stupid Pixelfed photo."
"Have you seen how I live? People have been judging me."
"Next time we do date night, I want to book an Air Bnb."
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Sydney J. Van Scyoc (1939-2023) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1457
L, Richard Powers, 1977; R, Ed Emshwiller, 1964
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Sydney J. Van Scyoc (1939-2023) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1457
L, Richard Powers, 1977; R, Ed Emshwiller, 1964
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Artist Mel Hunter (1927-2004) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1816
L, 1956; R, 1954
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Artist Mel Hunter (1927-2004) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1816
L, 1956; R, 1954
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#ScienceFiction #scifi #novel #review
My review of the novel "The Return of Santiago" by Mike Resnick
https://english.netmassimo.com/2026/07/27/the-return-of-santiago-by-mike-resnick/
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#ScienceFiction #scifi #novel #review
My review of the novel "The Return of Santiago" by Mike Resnick
https://english.netmassimo.com/2026/07/27/the-return-of-santiago-by-mike-resnick/
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Neuromancer trailer in 4K Dolby Vision.
Looks great! Can’t wait. #scifi https://tv.apple.com/dk/show/neuromancer/umc.cmc.ym2z4w07kwsi1wywwxtyckr #williamgibson #cyberpunk -
Neuromancer trailer in 4K Dolby Vision.
Looks great! Can’t wait. #scifi https://tv.apple.com/dk/show/neuromancer/umc.cmc.ym2z4w07kwsi1wywwxtyckr #williamgibson #cyberpunk -
The now defunct space station circling Exoplanet 93836. This is the first space station they created. It was partially grown, and partially constructed, by a consortium of eight clans. The domes opened and closed with a flowering effect, so they could study this strange new galaxy at their doorstep during the day, and sleep at night. Once it became obsolete, they moved it into a stable orbit, so it would eternally circle their planet, as a symbol of working together, despite the petty wars still flaring on the planet.
#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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The now defunct space station circling Exoplanet 93836. This is the first space station they created. It was partially grown, and partially constructed, by a consortium of eight clans. The domes opened and closed with a flowering effect, so they could study this strange new galaxy at their doorstep during the day, and sleep at night. Once it became obsolete, they moved it into a stable orbit, so it would eternally circle their planet, as a symbol of working together, despite the petty wars still flaring on the planet.
#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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The now defunct space station circling Exoplanet 93836. This is the first space station they created. It was partially grown, and partially constructed, by a consortium of eight clans. The domes opened and closed with a flowering effect, so they could study this strange new galaxy at their doorstep during the day, and sleep at night. Once it became obsolete, they moved it into a stable orbit, so it would eternally circle their planet, as a symbol of working together, despite the petty wars still flaring on the planet.
#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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The now defunct space station circling Exoplanet 93836. This is the first space station they created. It was partially grown, and partially constructed, by a consortium of eight clans. The domes opened and closed with a flowering effect, so they could study this strange new galaxy at their doorstep during the day, and sleep at night. Once it became obsolete, they moved it into a stable orbit, so it would eternally circle their planet, as a symbol of working together, despite the petty wars still flaring on the planet.
#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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The now defunct space station circling Exoplanet 93836. This is the first space station they created. It was partially grown, and partially constructed, by a consortium of eight clans. The domes opened and closed with a flowering effect, so they could study this strange new galaxy at their doorstep during the day, and sleep at night. Once it became obsolete, they moved it into a stable orbit, so it would eternally circle their planet, as a symbol of working together, despite the petty wars still flaring on the planet.
#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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Torna #DarkMatter con la seconda stagione. Joel Edgerton e Jennifer Connelly dal 28 agosto su Apple TV. Trailer: https://youtu.be/zhB6_1UbR7s https://kiro.it/uYbP5 #appletv #scifi
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Torna #DarkMatter con la seconda stagione. Joel Edgerton e Jennifer Connelly dal 28 agosto su Apple TV. Trailer: https://youtu.be/zhB6_1UbR7s https://kiro.it/uYbP5 #appletv #scifi
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Reading Project, 14
Just two of the books I read, the others I have already passed on.
After I reading the two navigator-explorers, Captains Cook and Flinders, I was ready for a bit of fiction. My SF reading buddy and I had been saying for a while that we needed a new series to get our teeth into, and couldn’t find one. With more time on my hands than he has I sourced a few 10 Best XYZ lists. Noted two or three series that all appeared on several lists.
One fine Saturday when I was grocery shopping, and then intending to look for a birthday book suitable for a nine-year-old, saw a 50% Fantasy and Science Fiction Sale at QBD (referring to Queensland Book Depot, I’m assuming).
Lol, what QBD apparently did, was mark down to 50% all first parts of series, leaving the rest of the series at the normal price. So I walked out with the book gift and three first installments of their respective series each of those between 10 and 12 dollars. How can they even produce books that cheap? Our idea being that which ever of the first installments catches our interest, we’ll continue with.
Book 44 … Mistborn, Book One of the Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson, this edition published by Gollancz in 2009.
Mistborn was the first one I picked up to read. I’ve read somewhere it’s being turned into a feature film and thought I should read it before I see it as films rarely improve on books.
I find Sanderson tooth-grittingly hard to read. In my middle life I spent ten years editing undergraduate essays, an experience that has left me deeply disinterested in reading poorly phrased prose and Sanderson loves “thin alleys”!
What’s wrong with narrow alleys? And that’s just one example. I can’t believe Mistborn is being touted as literature!
Seems that I’m not alone in this, I was happy to discover. When I am alone in a complaint, there’s always the suspicion that I’m being elitist, or fussy, or or or … This time though, several Reddit commentators are of the same mind. Although one of them thought that Sanderson writes ‘flat prose’ purposely, to attract the largest possible following. In answer to that I say that George R R Martin, among others, didn’t have to resort to flattening his prose to attract a large following.
But flat prose aside, Sanderson’s ideas and inventions are fresh and capable of sending their stories into new unusual directions. Though this is not enough for me to want to read part two or more.
Book 45 … Red Rising, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2014 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Pierce Brown is one of the ‘many others’ I mentioned up there. No ‘flat prose’ in sight. This is one of those books where I hardly noticed I was reading. Some Reddit commentators have mentioned the many many short sentences and how they distract from a good read.
Others say short sentences are what makes audio books an intense listen. Oh, I thought. Audio. That’s why the short sentence style is taking over public writing. And plus, AIs seem to like it.
Red Rising read like a breath of fresh air to me, I never had to wonder what the author meant. Yes, it was a gallop. The worldbuilding, a society organized by colors and partly structured by a Roman underlay, go hand-in-hand with the plotting, and are frenetic.
Though it’s true that Darrow, the main character, is a bit of a superman, and always comes out on top despite his sometimes mistaken beliefs in the goodness of others. But never mind. I’ve read that this is the weakest of the series. If I can trust the commentators, things can only look up.
Book 46 … The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, first published in 2016 by Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette.
The Wild Robot is the birthday book. A film is already out there and I think I’ve seen it. Which probably helped me choose the book. This is the story of a robot becoming marooned on a deserted island, and learning to live with nature, or part of nature. It seems a little moralistic but was the best that I could find without reading everything. Lol.
I despise books written purposely to teach kids morals. As if they aren’t learning them from their parents. Kids famously learn their morals by watching how their parents behave and behaving just like that. Teaching kids morals is like teaching fish to swim.
It’s increasingly hard to gloss a bookshop’s shelves for good kids’ books. It seems to me the golden age of children’s literature has gone the way of many other good things. I think Rosemary Sutcliffe’s books could do with reprinting. Penguin Books? Anyone?
I have quite a few of the really good middle grade fictions on my shelves still (some of which are forty plus years old, I confess) and although some of them are being reprinted—The Little House Series and The Rats of NIMH, for example—many others have just disappeared.
In the past, kids read about animals and their lives. Historical fictions. None of them around now. Too many good film documentaries, I suppose.Book 47 … Golden Son, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2015 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Lol, this is not one of the three firsts that I bought. I couldn’t resist going in and buying Part 2 of the Red Rising Series. I guess I’m hooked.
However, it’s been a couple of weeks since I read Golden Son and a lot of Real Life, eg a light fling with Covid, has happened in the meantime. I will have to read Darrow’s doings again for the detail as I now remember very little as I raced through chasing the plot. A bad habit. The plot is intricate, detailed, a lot happens, there’s non-stop action.At the end, I do remember thinking, with all that happened, and all the mysteries that have been outed, what is there left to say? How can there be all the subsequent installments? Is he going back to the beginning and start a whole lot of new threads? Re-inventing himself, no doubt.
Well, I just read a couple of articles on Wikipedia. Apparently Golden Son is the second installment of a trilogy. After Morning Star, the third one, there will be a second trilogy to make up the six books in the series so far.
I’m not sure whether I have enough puff to read any more in this arena after Golden Son. I enjoyed the two that I read, but it sounds like the next four are more of the same. And I’m pretty sure Darrow will win, somehow.
#fiction #PeterBrown #PierceBrown #Reddit #Sanderson #sciFi #scienceFantasy #scienceFiction #wikipedia -
Reading Project, 14
Just two of the books I read, the others I have already passed on.
After I reading the two navigator-explorers, Captains Cook and Flinders, I was ready for a bit of fiction. My SF reading buddy and I had been saying for a while that we needed a new series to get our teeth into, and couldn’t find one. With more time on my hands than he has I sourced a few 10 Best XYZ lists. Noted two or three series that all appeared on several lists.
One fine Saturday when I was grocery shopping, and then intending to look for a birthday book suitable for a nine-year-old, saw a 50% Fantasy and Science Fiction Sale at QBD (referring to Queensland Book Depot, I’m assuming).
Lol, what QBD apparently did, was mark down to 50% all first parts of series, leaving the rest of the series at the normal price. So I walked out with the book gift and three first installments of their respective series each of those between 10 and 12 dollars. How can they even produce books that cheap? Our idea being that which ever of the first installments catches our interest, we’ll continue with.
Book 44 … Mistborn, Book One of the Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson, this edition published by Gollancz in 2009.
Mistborn was the first one I picked up to read. I’ve read somewhere it’s being turned into a feature film and thought I should read it before I see it as films rarely improve on books.
I find Sanderson tooth-grittingly hard to read. In my middle life I spent ten years editing undergraduate essays, an experience that has left me deeply disinterested in reading poorly phrased prose and Sanderson loves “thin alleys”!
What’s wrong with narrow alleys? And that’s just one example. I can’t believe Mistborn is being touted as literature!
Seems that I’m not alone in this, I was happy to discover. When I am alone in a complaint, there’s always the suspicion that I’m being elitist, or fussy, or or or … This time though, several Reddit commentators are of the same mind. Although one of them thought that Sanderson writes ‘flat prose’ purposely, to attract the largest possible following. In answer to that I say that George R R Martin, among others, didn’t have to resort to flattening his prose to attract a large following.
But flat prose aside, Sanderson’s ideas and inventions are fresh and capable of sending their stories into new unusual directions. Though this is not enough for me to want to read part two or more.
Book 45 … Red Rising, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2014 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Pierce Brown is one of the ‘many others’ I mentioned up there. No ‘flat prose’ in sight. This is one of those books where I hardly noticed I was reading. Some Reddit commentators have mentioned the many many short sentences and how they distract from a good read.
Others say short sentences are what makes audio books an intense listen. Oh, I thought. Audio. That’s why the short sentence style is taking over public writing. And plus, AIs seem to like it.
Red Rising read like a breath of fresh air to me, I never had to wonder what the author meant. Yes, it was a gallop. The worldbuilding, a society organized by colors and partly structured by a Roman underlay, go hand-in-hand with the plotting, and are frenetic.
Though it’s true that Darrow, the main character, is a bit of a superman, and always comes out on top despite his sometimes mistaken beliefs in the goodness of others. But never mind. I’ve read that this is the weakest of the series. If I can trust the commentators, things can only look up.
Book 46 … The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, first published in 2016 by Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette.
The Wild Robot is the birthday book. A film is already out there and I think I’ve seen it. Which probably helped me choose the book. This is the story of a robot becoming marooned on a deserted island, and learning to live with nature, or part of nature. It seems a little moralistic but was the best that I could find without reading everything. Lol.
I despise books written purposely to teach kids morals. As if they aren’t learning them from their parents. Kids famously learn their morals by watching how their parents behave and behaving just like that. Teaching kids morals is like teaching fish to swim.
It’s increasingly hard to gloss a bookshop’s shelves for good kids’ books. It seems to me the golden age of children’s literature has gone the way of many other good things. I think Rosemary Sutcliffe’s books could do with reprinting. Penguin Books? Anyone?
I have quite a few of the really good middle grade fictions on my shelves still (some of which are forty plus years old, I confess) and although some of them are being reprinted—The Little House Series and The Rats of NIMH, for example—many others have just disappeared.
In the past, kids read about animals and their lives. Historical fictions. None of them around now. Too many good film documentaries, I suppose.Book 47 … Golden Son, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2015 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Lol, this is not one of the three firsts that I bought. I couldn’t resist going in and buying Part 2 of the Red Rising Series. I guess I’m hooked.
However, it’s been a couple of weeks since I read Golden Son and a lot of Real Life, eg a light fling with Covid, has happened in the meantime. I will have to read Darrow’s doings again for the detail as I now remember very little as I raced through chasing the plot. A bad habit. The plot is intricate, detailed, a lot happens, there’s non-stop action.At the end, I do remember thinking, with all that happened, and all the mysteries that have been outed, what is there left to say? How can there be all the subsequent installments? Is he going back to the beginning and start a whole lot of new threads? Re-inventing himself, no doubt.
Well, I just read a couple of articles on Wikipedia. Apparently Golden Son is the second installment of a trilogy. After Morning Star, the third one, there will be a second trilogy to make up the six books in the series so far.
I’m not sure whether I have enough puff to read any more in this arena after Golden Son. I enjoyed the two that I read, but it sounds like the next four are more of the same. And I’m pretty sure Darrow will win, somehow.
#bookReview #bookReviews #books #Fantasy #fiction #PeterBrown #PierceBrown #Reddit #Sanderson #sciFi #scienceFantasy #scienceFiction #wikipedia -
Reading Project, 14
Just two of the books I read, the others I have already passed on.
After I reading the two navigator-explorers, Captains Cook and Flinders, I was ready for a bit of fiction. My SF reading buddy and I had been saying for a while that we needed a new series to get our teeth into, and couldn’t find one. With more time on my hands than he has I sourced a few 10 Best XYZ lists. Noted two or three series that all appeared on several lists.
One fine Saturday when I was grocery shopping, and then intending to look for a birthday book suitable for a nine-year-old, saw a 50% Fantasy and Science Fiction Sale at QBD (referring to Queensland Book Depot, I’m assuming).
Lol, what QBD apparently did, was mark down to 50% all first parts of series, leaving the rest of the series at the normal price. So I walked out with the book gift and three first installments of their respective series each of those between 10 and 12 dollars. How can they even produce books that cheap? Our idea being that which ever of the first installments catches our interest, we’ll continue with.
Book 44 … Mistborn, Book One of the Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson, this edition published by Gollancz in 2009.
Mistborn was the first one I picked up to read. I’ve read somewhere it’s being turned into a feature film and thought I should read it before I see it as films rarely improve on books.
I find Sanderson tooth-grittingly hard to read. In my middle life I spent ten years editing undergraduate essays, an experience that has left me deeply disinterested in reading poorly phrased prose and Sanderson loves “thin alleys”!
What’s wrong with narrow alleys? And that’s just one example. I can’t believe Mistborn is being touted as literature!
Seems that I’m not alone in this, I was happy to discover. When I am alone in a complaint, there’s always the suspicion that I’m being elitist, or fussy, or or or … This time though, several Reddit commentators are of the same mind. Although one of them thought that Sanderson writes ‘flat prose’ purposely, to attract the largest possible following. In answer to that I say that George R R Martin, among others, didn’t have to resort to flattening his prose to attract a large following.
But flat prose aside, Sanderson’s ideas and inventions are fresh and capable of sending their stories into new unusual directions. Though this is not enough for me to want to read part two or more.
Book 45 … Red Rising, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2014 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Pierce Brown is one of the ‘many others’ I mentioned up there. No ‘flat prose’ in sight. This is one of those books where I hardly noticed I was reading. Some Reddit commentators have mentioned the many many short sentences and how they distract from a good read.
Others say short sentences are what makes audio books an intense listen. Oh, I thought. Audio. That’s why the short sentence style is taking over public writing. And plus, AIs seem to like it.
Red Rising read like a breath of fresh air to me, I never had to wonder what the author meant. Yes, it was a gallop. The worldbuilding, a society organized by colors and partly structured by a Roman underlay, go hand-in-hand with the plotting, and are frenetic.
Though it’s true that Darrow, the main character, is a bit of a superman, and always comes out on top despite his sometimes mistaken beliefs in the goodness of others. But never mind. I’ve read that this is the weakest of the series. If I can trust the commentators, things can only look up.
Book 46 … The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, first published in 2016 by Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette.
The Wild Robot is the birthday book. A film is already out there and I think I’ve seen it. Which probably helped me choose the book. This is the story of a robot becoming marooned on a deserted island, and learning to live with nature, or part of nature. It seems a little moralistic but was the best that I could find without reading everything. Lol.
I despise books written purposely to teach kids morals. As if they aren’t learning them from their parents. Kids famously learn their morals by watching how their parents behave and behaving just like that. Teaching kids morals is like teaching fish to swim.
It’s increasingly hard to gloss a bookshop’s shelves for good kids’ books. It seems to me the golden age of children’s literature has gone the way of many other good things. I think Rosemary Sutcliffe’s books could do with reprinting. Penguin Books? Anyone?
I have quite a few of the really good middle grade fictions on my shelves still (some of which are forty plus years old, I confess) and although some of them are being reprinted—The Little House Series and The Rats of NIMH, for example—many others have just disappeared.
In the past, kids read about animals and their lives. Historical fictions. None of them around now. Too many good film documentaries, I suppose.Book 47 … Golden Son, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2015 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Lol, this is not one of the three firsts that I bought. I couldn’t resist going in and buying Part 2 of the Red Rising Series. I guess I’m hooked.
However, it’s been a couple of weeks since I read Golden Son and a lot of Real Life, eg a light fling with Covid, has happened in the meantime. I will have to read Darrow’s doings again for the detail as I now remember very little as I raced through chasing the plot. A bad habit. The plot is intricate, detailed, a lot happens, there’s non-stop action.At the end, I do remember thinking, with all that happened, and all the mysteries that have been outed, what is there left to say? How can there be all the subsequent installments? Is he going back to the beginning and start a whole lot of new threads? Re-inventing himself, no doubt.
Well, I just read a couple of articles on Wikipedia. Apparently Golden Son is the second installment of a trilogy. After Morning Star, the third one, there will be a second trilogy to make up the six books in the series so far.
I’m not sure whether I have enough puff to read any more in this arena after Golden Son. I enjoyed the two that I read, but it sounds like the next four are more of the same. And I’m pretty sure Darrow will win, somehow.
#fiction #PeterBrown #PierceBrown #Reddit #Sanderson #sciFi #scienceFantasy #scienceFiction #wikipedia -
Reading Project, 14
Just two of the books I read, the others I have already passed on.
After I reading the two navigator-explorers, Captains Cook and Flinders, I was ready for a bit of fiction. My SF reading buddy and I had been saying for a while that we needed a new series to get our teeth into, and couldn’t find one. With more time on my hands than he has I sourced a few 10 Best XYZ lists. Noted two or three series that all appeared on several lists.
One fine Saturday when I was grocery shopping, and then intending to look for a birthday book suitable for a nine-year-old, saw a 50% Fantasy and Science Fiction Sale at QBD (referring to Queensland Book Depot, I’m assuming).
Lol, what QBD apparently did, was mark down to 50% all first parts of series, leaving the rest of the series at the normal price. So I walked out with the book gift and three first installments of their respective series each of those between 10 and 12 dollars. How can they even produce books that cheap? Our idea being that which ever of the first installments catches our interest, we’ll continue with.
Book 44 … Mistborn, Book One of the Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson, this edition published by Gollancz in 2009.
Mistborn was the first one I picked up to read. I’ve read somewhere it’s being turned into a feature film and thought I should read it before I see it as films rarely improve on books.
I find Sanderson tooth-grittingly hard to read. In my middle life I spent ten years editing undergraduate essays, an experience that has left me deeply disinterested in reading poorly phrased prose and Sanderson loves “thin alleys”!
What’s wrong with narrow alleys? And that’s just one example. I can’t believe Mistborn is being touted as literature!
Seems that I’m not alone in this, I was happy to discover. When I am alone in a complaint, there’s always the suspicion that I’m being elitist, or fussy, or or or … This time though, several Reddit commentators are of the same mind. Although one of them thought that Sanderson writes ‘flat prose’ purposely, to attract the largest possible following. In answer to that I say that George R R Martin, among others, didn’t have to resort to flattening his prose to attract a large following.
But flat prose aside, Sanderson’s ideas and inventions are fresh and capable of sending their stories into new unusual directions. Though this is not enough for me to want to read part two or more.
Book 45 … Red Rising, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2014 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Pierce Brown is one of the ‘many others’ I mentioned up there. No ‘flat prose’ in sight. This is one of those books where I hardly noticed I was reading. Some Reddit commentators have mentioned the many many short sentences and how they distract from a good read.
Others say short sentences are what makes audio books an intense listen. Oh, I thought. Audio. That’s why the short sentence style is taking over public writing. And plus, AIs seem to like it.
Red Rising read like a breath of fresh air to me, I never had to wonder what the author meant. Yes, it was a gallop. The worldbuilding, a society organized by colors and partly structured by a Roman underlay, go hand-in-hand with the plotting, and are frenetic.
Though it’s true that Darrow, the main character, is a bit of a superman, and always comes out on top despite his sometimes mistaken beliefs in the goodness of others. But never mind. I’ve read that this is the weakest of the series. If I can trust the commentators, things can only look up.
Book 46 … The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, first published in 2016 by Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette.
The Wild Robot is the birthday book. A film is already out there and I think I’ve seen it. Which probably helped me choose the book. This is the story of a robot becoming marooned on a deserted island, and learning to live with nature, or part of nature. It seems a little moralistic but was the best that I could find without reading everything. Lol.
I despise books written purposely to teach kids morals. As if they aren’t learning them from their parents. Kids famously learn their morals by watching how their parents behave and behaving just like that. Teaching kids morals is like teaching fish to swim.
It’s increasingly hard to gloss a bookshop’s shelves for good kids’ books. It seems to me the golden age of children’s literature has gone the way of many other good things. I think Rosemary Sutcliffe’s books could do with reprinting. Penguin Books? Anyone?
I have quite a few of the really good middle grade fictions on my shelves still (some of which are forty plus years old, I confess) and although some of them are being reprinted—The Little House Series and The Rats of NIMH, for example—many others have just disappeared.
In the past, kids read about animals and their lives. Historical fictions. None of them around now. Too many good film documentaries, I suppose.Book 47 … Golden Son, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2015 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Lol, this is not one of the three firsts that I bought. I couldn’t resist going in and buying Part 2 of the Red Rising Series. I guess I’m hooked.
However, it’s been a couple of weeks since I read Golden Son and a lot of Real Life, eg a light fling with Covid, has happened in the meantime. I will have to read Darrow’s doings again for the detail as I now remember very little as I raced through chasing the plot. A bad habit. The plot is intricate, detailed, a lot happens, there’s non-stop action.At the end, I do remember thinking, with all that happened, and all the mysteries that have been outed, what is there left to say? How can there be all the subsequent installments? Is he going back to the beginning and start a whole lot of new threads? Re-inventing himself, no doubt.
Well, I just read a couple of articles on Wikipedia. Apparently Golden Son is the second installment of a trilogy. After Morning Star, the third one, there will be a second trilogy to make up the six books in the series so far.
I’m not sure whether I have enough puff to read any more in this arena after Golden Son. I enjoyed the two that I read, but it sounds like the next four are more of the same. And I’m pretty sure Darrow will win, somehow.
#fiction #PeterBrown #PierceBrown #Reddit #Sanderson #sciFi #scienceFantasy #scienceFiction #wikipedia -
Reading Project, 14
Just two of the books I read, the others I have already passed on.
After I reading the two navigator-explorers, Captains Cook and Flinders, I was ready for a bit of fiction. My SF reading buddy and I had been saying for a while that we needed a new series to get our teeth into, and couldn’t find one. With more time on my hands than he has I sourced a few 10 Best XYZ lists. Noted two or three series that all appeared on several lists.
One fine Saturday when I was grocery shopping, and then intending to look for a birthday book suitable for a nine-year-old, saw a 50% Fantasy and Science Fiction Sale at QBD (referring to Queensland Book Depot, I’m assuming).
Lol, what QBD apparently did, was mark down to 50% all first parts of series, leaving the rest of the series at the normal price. So I walked out with the book gift and three first installments of their respective series each of those between 10 and 12 dollars. How can they even produce books that cheap? Our idea being that which ever of the first installments catches our interest, we’ll continue with.
Book 44 … Mistborn, Book One of the Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson, this edition published by Gollancz in 2009.
Mistborn was the first one I picked up to read. I’ve read somewhere it’s being turned into a feature film and thought I should read it before I see it as films rarely improve on books.
I find Sanderson tooth-grittingly hard to read. In my middle life I spent ten years editing undergraduate essays, an experience that has left me deeply disinterested in reading poorly phrased prose and Sanderson loves “thin alleys”!
What’s wrong with narrow alleys? And that’s just one example. I can’t believe Mistborn is being touted as literature!
Seems that I’m not alone in this, I was happy to discover. When I am alone in a complaint, there’s always the suspicion that I’m being elitist, or fussy, or or or … This time though, several Reddit commentators are of the same mind. Although one of them thought that Sanderson writes ‘flat prose’ purposely, to attract the largest possible following. In answer to that I say that George R R Martin, among others, didn’t have to resort to flattening his prose to attract a large following.
But flat prose aside, Sanderson’s ideas and inventions are fresh and capable of sending their stories into new unusual directions. Though this is not enough for me to want to read part two or more.
Book 45 … Red Rising, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2014 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Pierce Brown is one of the ‘many others’ I mentioned up there. No ‘flat prose’ in sight. This is one of those books where I hardly noticed I was reading. Some Reddit commentators have mentioned the many many short sentences and how they distract from a good read.
Others say short sentences are what makes audio books an intense listen. Oh, I thought. Audio. That’s why the short sentence style is taking over public writing. And plus, AIs seem to like it.
Red Rising read like a breath of fresh air to me, I never had to wonder what the author meant. Yes, it was a gallop. The worldbuilding, a society organized by colors and partly structured by a Roman underlay, go hand-in-hand with the plotting, and are frenetic.
Though it’s true that Darrow, the main character, is a bit of a superman, and always comes out on top despite his sometimes mistaken beliefs in the goodness of others. But never mind. I’ve read that this is the weakest of the series. If I can trust the commentators, things can only look up.
Book 46 … The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, first published in 2016 by Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette.
The Wild Robot is the birthday book. A film is already out there and I think I’ve seen it. Which probably helped me choose the book. This is the story of a robot becoming marooned on a deserted island, and learning to live with nature, or part of nature. It seems a little moralistic but was the best that I could find without reading everything. Lol.
I despise books written purposely to teach kids morals. As if they aren’t learning them from their parents. Kids famously learn their morals by watching how their parents behave and behaving just like that. Teaching kids morals is like teaching fish to swim.
It’s increasingly hard to gloss a bookshop’s shelves for good kids’ books. It seems to me the golden age of children’s literature has gone the way of many other good things. I think Rosemary Sutcliffe’s books could do with reprinting. Penguin Books? Anyone?
I have quite a few of the really good middle grade fictions on my shelves still (some of which are forty plus years old, I confess) and although some of them are being reprinted—The Little House Series and The Rats of NIMH, for example—many others have just disappeared.
In the past, kids read about animals and their lives. Historical fictions. None of them around now. Too many good film documentaries, I suppose.Book 47 … Golden Son, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2015 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Lol, this is not one of the three firsts that I bought. I couldn’t resist going in and buying Part 2 of the Red Rising Series. I guess I’m hooked.
However, it’s been a couple of weeks since I read Golden Son and a lot of Real Life, eg a light fling with Covid, has happened in the meantime. I will have to read Darrow’s doings again for the detail as I now remember very little as I raced through chasing the plot. A bad habit. The plot is intricate, detailed, a lot happens, there’s non-stop action.At the end, I do remember thinking, with all that happened, and all the mysteries that have been outed, what is there left to say? How can there be all the subsequent installments? Is he going back to the beginning and start a whole lot of new threads? Re-inventing himself, no doubt.
Well, I just read a couple of articles on Wikipedia. Apparently Golden Son is the second installment of a trilogy. After Morning Star, the third one, there will be a second trilogy to make up the six books in the series so far.
I’m not sure whether I have enough puff to read any more in this arena after Golden Son. I enjoyed the two that I read, but it sounds like the next four are more of the same. And I’m pretty sure Darrow will win, somehow.
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A surreal sci-fi short I wrote back in 2011 for a now defunct magazine has launched on Amazon / Kindle.
A Cave: The Pristine White Field of Forever https://a.co/d/062v4mB3
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A surreal sci-fi short I wrote back in 2011 for a now defunct magazine has launched on Amazon / Kindle.
A Cave: The Pristine White Field of Forever https://a.co/d/062v4mB3
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Space horror films have almost vanished — what killed the genre?
https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-movies-shows/what-happened-to-space-horror-movies
They mostly don't come out anymore... mostly.
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They mostly don't come out anymore... mostly. #science #film #scifi
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The CRUELEST Execution Methods in Warhammer 40k
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The CRUELEST Execution Methods in Warhammer 40k
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Watched Disclosure Day, and The Mandalorian and Grogu, last night and this afternoon. I will watch Disclosure Day again as I think it might have more to offer than a single screening could afford. The Mandalorian and Co. was two streaming episodes stitched into one long movie. It was not terrible but in agreement with a lot of people, I found it a bit bland, and underwhelming, especially when compared to the first season of the streaming series.
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Watched Disclosure Day, and The Mandalorian and Grogu, last night and this afternoon. I will watch Disclosure Day again as I think it might have more to offer than a single screening could afford. The Mandalorian and Co. was two streaming episodes stitched into one long movie. It was not terrible but in agreement with a lot of people, I found it a bit bland, and underwhelming, especially when compared to the first season of the streaming series.
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A book price is not a moral statement. It is a signal. Change the platform or the timing and the same story can pay very different rent. That little scam of reality is worth a closer look. https://inkican.com/smashwords-author-math-your-help-matters/ #scifi #author #STEM
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A book price is not a moral statement. It is a signal. Change the platform or the timing and the same story can pay very different rent. That little scam of reality is worth a closer look. https://inkican.com/smashwords-author-math-your-help-matters/ #scifi #author #STEM
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It's about 8pm EST and that means it's ONLY ONE HOUR LEFT until #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! If you want to avoid a bunch of goofy toots, best set up a hashtag filter.
If you'd like to join in, this week's movie is BEGINNING OF THE END (1957), a black and white classic about giant maneating grasshoppers! It's a hoot.
The flick's available free with ads over on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100056094/beginning-of-the-end
Or you can download from Archive.org over here: https://archive.org/details/BeginningoftheEnd_201509
Just hit play at the top of the hour and toot along! See you there!
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It's about 8pm EST and that means it's ONLY ONE HOUR LEFT until #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! If you want to avoid a bunch of goofy toots, best set up a hashtag filter.
If you'd like to join in, this week's movie is BEGINNING OF THE END (1957), a black and white classic about giant maneating grasshoppers! It's a hoot.
The flick's available free with ads over on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100056094/beginning-of-the-end
Or you can download from Archive.org over here: https://archive.org/details/BeginningoftheEnd_201509
Just hit play at the top of the hour and toot along! See you there!
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It's about 8pm EST and that means it's ONLY ONE HOUR LEFT until #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! If you want to avoid a bunch of goofy toots, best set up a hashtag filter.
If you'd like to join in, this week's movie is BEGINNING OF THE END (1957), a black and white classic about giant maneating grasshoppers! It's a hoot.
The flick's available free with ads over on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100056094/beginning-of-the-end
Or you can download from Archive.org over here: https://archive.org/details/BeginningoftheEnd_201509
Just hit play at the top of the hour and toot along! See you there!
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It's about 8pm EST and that means it's ONLY ONE HOUR LEFT until #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! If you want to avoid a bunch of goofy toots, best set up a hashtag filter.
If you'd like to join in, this week's movie is BEGINNING OF THE END (1957), a black and white classic about giant maneating grasshoppers! It's a hoot.
The flick's available free with ads over on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100056094/beginning-of-the-end
Or you can download from Archive.org over here: https://archive.org/details/BeginningoftheEnd_201509
Just hit play at the top of the hour and toot along! See you there!
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It's about 8pm EST and that means it's ONLY ONE HOUR LEFT until #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! If you want to avoid a bunch of goofy toots, best set up a hashtag filter.
If you'd like to join in, this week's movie is BEGINNING OF THE END (1957), a black and white classic about giant maneating grasshoppers! It's a hoot.
The flick's available free with ads over on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100056094/beginning-of-the-end
Or you can download from Archive.org over here: https://archive.org/details/BeginningoftheEnd_201509
Just hit play at the top of the hour and toot along! See you there!
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #SciFi #ScienceFiction #BlackMirror You Can't Call Yourself a Sci-Fi Fan Unless You've Seen These 7 Shows http://dlvr.it/TTjvbV
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #SciFi #ScienceFiction #BlackMirror You Can't Call Yourself a Sci-Fi Fan Unless You've Seen These 7 Shows http://dlvr.it/TTjvbV
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🎥 Masters of the Universe (⭐️⭐️⭐️) #scifi #fantasy #action
Legends aren't born, they're forged. After being separated for 15 years, the Sword of Power leads Prince Adam back to Eternia, where he discovers his home shattered under the fiendish rule of Skeletor. To save his family and his world, Adam must join forces with his closest allies, Teela and Duncan/Man-At-Arms, and embrace his true destiny as He-Man — the most...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/masters-of-the-universe-2026
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🎥 Masters of the Universe (⭐️⭐️⭐️) #scifi #fantasy #action
Legends aren't born, they're forged. After being separated for 15 years, the Sword of Power leads Prince Adam back to Eternia, where he discovers his home shattered under the fiendish rule of Skeletor. To save his family and his world, Adam must join forces with his closest allies, Teela and Duncan/Man-At-Arms, and embrace his true destiny as He-Man — the most...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/masters-of-the-universe-2026
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🎥 Masters of the Universe (⭐️⭐️⭐️) #scifi #fantasy #action
Legends aren't born, they're forged. After being separated for 15 years, the Sword of Power leads Prince Adam back to Eternia, where he discovers his home shattered under the fiendish rule of Skeletor. To save his family and his world, Adam must join forces with his closest allies, Teela and Duncan/Man-At-Arms, and embrace his true destiny as He-Man — the most...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/masters-of-the-universe-2026
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🎥 Masters of the Universe (⭐️⭐️⭐️) #scifi #fantasy #action
Legends aren't born, they're forged. After being separated for 15 years, the Sword of Power leads Prince Adam back to Eternia, where he discovers his home shattered under the fiendish rule of Skeletor. To save his family and his world, Adam must join forces with his closest allies, Teela and Duncan/Man-At-Arms, and embrace his true destiny as He-Man — the most...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/masters-of-the-universe-2026
