BOOK TRACKER #10 & #11
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wickedwords #10 - Captain Marvel Vol. 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More (Captain Marvel (2014-2015))
So. For the release of Captain Marvel, Amazon Prime gave out free copies of old collections for about a month or so. As long as you picked it up before the limited time offer, it was yours! I decided on the first of the collection, and oh, the nostalgia. If this was one that I had read before, I remembered nothing about it. I loved the humor and the interaction with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the ethical quandaries stitched into it. Made me remember why I had loved the comic.
#11 - Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Wow. I mean. just. wow. I was blown away by this novel. My husband and I had been talking about the recent redefinition of plank's constant (as one does), to to see an entire mathematical / magical system that could be based on consensus definition and using that to build a science fiction universe was simply amazing. Confusing, too, as the novel does drop you right into it at the beginning of the book, so you have to pick it all up on the way through, and some of the signposts are really hard to see. Still, I was excited by the way the author played with my gender assumptions and the religious hierarchy and a huge amount of political machinations that take generations to play out and no wonder I found it utterly absorbing. Reading the book is as much a puzzle for the reader as the plot is for the characters, and I really enjoyed the thinky-ness of that.
So. For the release of Captain Marvel, Amazon Prime gave out free copies of old collections for about a month or so. As long as you picked it up before the limited time offer, it was yours! I decided on the first of the collection, and oh, the nostalgia. If this was one that I had read before, I remembered nothing about it. I loved the humor and the interaction with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the ethical quandaries stitched into it. Made me remember why I had loved the comic.
#11 - Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Wow. I mean. just. wow. I was blown away by this novel. My husband and I had been talking about the recent redefinition of plank's constant (as one does), to to see an entire mathematical / magical system that could be based on consensus definition and using that to build a science fiction universe was simply amazing. Confusing, too, as the novel does drop you right into it at the beginning of the book, so you have to pick it all up on the way through, and some of the signposts are really hard to see. Still, I was excited by the way the author played with my gender assumptions and the religious hierarchy and a huge amount of political machinations that take generations to play out and no wonder I found it utterly absorbing. Reading the book is as much a puzzle for the reader as the plot is for the characters, and I really enjoyed the thinky-ness of that.
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Date: 2019-05-03 12:48 pm (UTC)The latest novella is up for awards this year. It's "The Tea Master and the Detective," a Sherlock Holmes-type story where Watson is a sentient starship.
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