#spin state

[nerdywyrds]

He put a hand up to touch her face, but she jerked away, her throat tight with panic. "Don't you sacrifice yourself for me and leave me to live with it. I won't let you. And I'll hate you for it." "Don't say that, Catherine." "Well, what the hell do you want me to say?" she shouted. I want you to say you love me. He took a step towards her, and this time she didn't back away. She said it. She couldn't believe it, couldn't even say it without stuttering. But she said it. Then he set a hand on her hip, and she stepped into his arms, and it was all so, so simple. Something shivered and let go at his touch, something she'd never even known she was holding on to. And with a jerk of recognition, she found that dark unmapped territory in her own heart that was his already-- shaped to him, made for him, the exact width and breadth and depth of him.

-- Spin State, Chris Moriarty

[extrapenguin]

Finished Chris Moriarty’s Spin trilogy

The second book (Spin Control) was A+ like the first one, introduced a few new characters, and offered a neat look into life in the Syndicates. The third book (Ghost Spin) wasn’t as good IMO, with the biggest realization being a bit too readily obvious for my tastes. The ending also had some holes in it, though the finale was rather nice.

Spoilers & what I want for Yuletide:

Spin Control: I much preferred the Novalis passages and the Arkady POV to the non-flashbacks. (What I truly desire now is Arkady/Arkasha happy ending fic.) The cracks in Li/Cohen were there and not really dealt with, though I understand why.

Ghost Spin: As said, the mystery part wasn’t as strong as the first two. The time skip was larger than I’d expected, I came out disapproving of Cohen, and whyyyy author no u y do this to Arkady? I also didn’t really like Llewellyn, and the Datatrap was too handwavey to be in such a central piece of the plot. However, I do really like Router/Decomposer, and ship him with Caitlyn. And the scattercasting at the end was rather open-ended and nice-ish.

[extrapenguin]

Finished Chris Moriarty’s Spin State

And I 100% rec it! It’s cyberpunk-adjacent MilSF-ish rather hard SF based on quantum physics with a very nice and complex plotline where Major Catherine Li is sent to her home of Compson’s World to investigate the death of Hannah Sharifi, the quantum physicist who went to study the planet’s Bose-Einstein condensates, the mining of which is the only possible way of sustaining FTL.

If you like action, complex plotlines with lots of working off incomplete information, and mysteries, I recommend reading it. It’s also the only female-led MilSF book I’ve read where the male love interest doesn’t make me want to claw my eyes out.

[wordsoftheheartandsoul]

The trouble with friends was that you couldn't get rid of them. There was no way to take back a friendship in the wake of betrayal or disappointment. The friendship, and everything that went with it, stayed. It just became unreliable, like an abandoned house; you still knew where all the rooms were, and which stairs creaked underfoot, but you had to check every floorboard for rot before trusting your weight to it.

Chris Moriarty - Spin State

[alluringalliteration-blog]

That fantastic moment when a random sci-fi book you found in a bargain bin gives you Surprise!BisexualProtagonist. In a book that was already surprisingly captivating, with the main love interest as a pansexual genderqueer AI, and the main character is a super awesome ethnically-chinese adopted woman who isn't an emotionally bland sex doll.

[odditycollector]

Spin Down: A Catherine Li / Hyacinthe Cohen fanmix in 3 stanzas

(Li and Cohen are from the Spin State trilogy by Chris Moriarty, in case you have not been introduced.)

I got around 8tracks’ disapproval by splitting it into 2 parts: part 1 part 2 Track listing under cut.

[reflectionsandechos]

Finished Chis Moriarty's Spin Trilogy today.

"Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: Then stop"

[odditycollector]

Okay, so this is technically part of an old meme, but by now it does not really matter why I was stuck trying to glue John Egbert and Hyacinthe Cohen into a long term relationship.

John being John, and Cohen being an AI personality superstructure who is a little bit like a solar storm and a little bit like if a golden retriever puppy grew up to become a 19th century dandy. So. ???

(byzantienne, I am glad you are also in these fandoms because otherwise I would have felt very silly after filling up my second notebook of this.)

Part 0 of 4: Write Only Memory