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Book Review: The Unreal & The Real Volume 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands
Legacy; space travel and time; clones; sexism and aliens; loneliness, isolation, and connection; gender roles and their reversal; introversion; class and slavery; language and communication; fairytales… this collection of stories covers a wide and wonderful range of topics.
Full review.
I felt the pressure of people all around me, all the time. People around me, people with me, people pressing on me, pressing me to be one of them, to be one of them, one of the people. How could I make my soul? I could barely cling to it. I was in terror that I would lose it altogether.
– Ursula K Le Guin, Solitude
I was learning to starwatch; that is when you lie down outside on the open hills in the dry season at night, and find a certain star in the eastern sky, and watch it cross the sky till it sets. You can look away, of course, to rest your eyes, and doze, but you try to keep looking back at the star and the stars around it, until you feel the earth turning, until you become aware of how the stars and the world and the soul move together.
– Ursula K Le Guin, Solitude
Our daily life in the auntring was repetitive. On the ship, later, I learned that people who live in artificially complicated situations call such a life "simple." I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.
– Ursula K Le Guin, Solitude
"It will happen, certainly, I think," he said (his certainties were always uncertain).
– Ursula K Le Guin, The Matter of Seggri
I learned that the story has no beginning, and no story has an end. That the story is all muddle, all middle. That the story is never true, but that the lie is indeed a child of silence.
– Ursula K Le Guin, The Matter of Seggri
Book Review: Second Shift
Second Shift has an overall calmness about it, interspersed with chapter breaks and information about the dystopian megacorporation future the story is set in. It left me questioning everything and waiting for the calm facade to break.
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I fear that Omelas so far strikes some of you as goody-goody. Smiles, bells, parades, horses, bleh. If so, please add an orgy. If an orgy would help, don't hesitate.
– Ursula K Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Genre, a concept which could have served as a useful distinction of various kinds of fiction, has been degraded into a disguise for mere value-judgment. The various "genres" are now mainly commercial product-labels to make life easy for lazy readers, lazy critics, and the Sales Departments of publishers.
It's not my job as a writer to make life easy for anybody. Including myself
– Ursula K Le Guin, Introduction to The Unreal & The Real, volume 2
Book Review: Network Effect
I swear to god, the amount of times this book made me laugh and cry and bloody squeal, I cannot. Highlights include: Murderbot and ART constantly out-sassing each other, but genuinely having nothing but respect and admiration for each other. Murderbot 2.0 being a badass bitch and also acknowledging that Murderbot’s organic parts are useful. Fucking Three—that’s it, that the sentence, Three is an icon I love it already. Murderbot sitting, feeling sorry for itself, assuming it had been abandoned and left behind—while I’m literally shaking my book and screeching “No, baby, they are coming. YOU ARE LOVED!”
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She looked like she had been pretending to have hope and now she didn't have to pretend anymore.
(Confession time: that moment, when the humans or augmented humans realize you're really here to help them. I don't hate that moment.)
– Martha Wells, Network Effect
Thiago said, "SecUnit—" and I thought oh great, what now.
– Martha Wells, Network Effect
"Seals are good, we're ready for drop." She took a deep breath and added, "Technically, this is safer than landing a shuttle."
"Technically," Thiago agreed evenly, holding on to the arms of his chair.
Whatever. I started episode 241 of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon as Overse said, "Drop initiated."
– Martha Wells, Network Effect
Overse added, "Just remember you're not alone here."
I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.
– Martha Wells, Network Effect
(Yeah, I assumed it was about me, but humans assume everything is about them, too. It's not an uncommon problem, okay?)
– Martha Wells, Network Effect
Book Review: Grey Sister
I was waiting patiently for Nona’s shade trial. This is mentioned early on and she is expected to fail. Which is why I knew she would pull off some trickery, doing something unexpected and completing the trial in a new and interesting way. I loved it. And from that chapter onwards the book was absolutely non-stop. The first 140 pages were a slow slog for me, but I devoured the final 267.
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Book Review: The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 2
The writing is still exactly my jam. Concise, clear, and sharp. No word is wasted. It’s simple, but effective. It’s efficient, with a touch of flare… which mirror its narrator perfectly. Murderbot is a sassy, pithy, hilarious motherfucker and I love it.
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