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Can you name ONE (one only please) SF/F book, written this century (2001+), that has absolutely blown your mind? Not just something you liked, or that was good, I'm looking for the absolute best books written this century.
Boost for visibility please.
A while ago, I had the pleasure and privilege of reading One Night Only, a Doctor Who novella featuring Fela Kuti, written by Tade Thompson.
You can now read my spoiler-free review over on the blog.
https://www.julietemckenna.com/one-night-only-a-doctor-who-novella-from-tade-thompson/
Book Review: All that We See or Seem, by Ken Liu
A challenging novel that fearlessly faces a world full of AI
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/book-review-all-that-we-see-or-seem-by.html
@princejvstin.com
tackles the book at the NOAF blog
#books #ai #sciencefiction #sf #review #bookstodon @bookstodon
First #blog for December is a #review of Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief, which I'd picked up at WorldCon last year. It is a truly excellent satire of late stage capitalism and the idea of meritocracy (among other things). It's decentralised form brilliantly matches its substantive critique.
I had some minor critiques, but nothing to detract from the its overall excellence. I recommend this to everyone who enjoys #SF #cyberpunk or #dystopian fiction.
https://write.as/the-casual-critic/the-ten-percent-thief-fully-automated-precarious-capitalism
Merci à @Airr pour ce conseil de lecture !
#SF #ScienceFiction #féminisme #livre #lecture #littérature #PAL #BookWyrm
(comment on Hope)
C’est un ami (décédé il y a quelques années après une longue maladie) qui avait traduit le roman en français. Je souhaite le lire principalement pour cette raison sentimentale.
#PAL #SF #ScienceFiction #traduction #LesterDelRey #BookWyrm #BookWyrmFR
(comment on Le Onzième commandement)
Ce roman #SF #solarpunk mène des explorateurices sur une planète où la forme de vie la plus intelligente est végétale. Une expérience de survie agréable à lire.
(comment on Semiosis)
Another one I hadn't planned to write a #blog on: John Scalzi's Interdependency series. I enjoyed it, but finished it with a sense that it had more potential than it managed to realise, so did a #review to work out what it was I thought was missing.
On reflection, I would've liked Scalzi to do more with his interesting political economy, but besides that, it's still a decent read. Full review, including choice Lenin quotes, below:
https://write.as/the-casual-critic/interdependency-the-highest-stage-of-capitalism
A more positive #blog today. I did a #review of Pluto, an excellent short anime about robots. At a time when all we hear is how AI will either drown us in slop, or take over the world (or both), it's quite nice to engage with an #anime that takes a more old-fashioned approach to robots, while still exploring some fundamental philosophical themes.
It's eight emotionally gut-punching episodes, and I'd certainly recommend it.
https://write.as/the-casual-critic/pluto-teaching-a-robot-to-hate
I tried to get conversation going about Murderbot on a writers forum, and now I'm frustrated at the lack of interest.
I genuinely don't understand how anyone can claim to be into sci-fi and not love this show.
My schedule for Seattle #Worldcon later this month!
Come watch my panels on hopeful fiction and speculative poetry, or check out the research posters (including mine) at any time in the 4th floor Paramount Lounge. Looking forward to talking #solarpunk with other #SF fans!
#seattleworldcon #worldcon2025 #sff #digitalhumanities #climatefiction #poetry
Latest #blog is on #ProjectHailMary . It took me about a week to write because that thing happened where I really liked the movie in the theatre, yet when thinking about it afterwards I had more and more issues with it.
Anyway, I still liked it, but you do have to be willing to engage with it to enjoy it.
Plus, it's just time to move away from stories about a single white man coming to save us.
https://write.as/the-casual-critic/project-hail-mary-friendship-rocks
It's been a while since I've done a #review of a #tv series, and it's my first #starwars related one, about Season 2 of Andor.
It took me a long time to write. I found Andor genuinely very good. But maybe because of that, I was disappointed by its narrow view of agency in a hostile world. Though there is only so much any Star Wars product can do, given the constraints of the source material.
Anyway, in-depth #blog here: https://write.as/the-casual-critic/andor-season-2-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-warp
He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway.
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Math teacher Jason Agan was deemed “unfit to teach.” But the finding was never made public. This is how the state allowed him — and dozens of other educators found to have committed sexual harassment or misconduct — to keep their credentials.
https://www.propublica.org/article/california-fired-teacher-sexual-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #California #SexualHarassment #Students #Teachers #Teaching #Education #Parents #Parenting #Children #SanFrancisco #BayArea #SF
on vis dans un monde dominé par des hommes qui ont été nourri de la #sf des années 70-80. avec des robots, de l'ia et des vaisseaux spatiaux.
il faut inventer un nouvel imaginaire plus utopique, social et juste et gagner l'imaginaire et le coeur des adultes de demain.
y a pas que de la musique à la #bonneAventure #Dunkerque
Review: And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer
@DrEddieClark has our review at the NOAF blog today:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/review-and-side-by-side-they-wander-by.html
#books #review #sciencefiction #sf #bookstodon @bookstodon