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Cameron's Book Round-Up: 2025, part 6 — Broken Hands Media

Well, the past couple of weeks have been…a lot. I can’t help but think that it’s probably not healthy to stay plugged into the news all the

In this slate of book reviews:

Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani: a philosophy book that is actually a horror story about the sentience and malevolence of oil as an eldritch entity (the rotting corpse of the black sun.)

Rosewater by Tade Thompson: which takes the paranoid psychic espionage fiction of the 1970s and resets it in a near-future Nigeria.

Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin: which synthesizes John Carpenter and Stephen King into the story of a group of young people (think a "Wilderness Therapy Program" or conversion therapy camp.)

Flatline Constructs by Mark Fisher: his doctoral dissertation, mapping out a kind of space between Videodrome and Neuromancer, among other works, exploring humanity as a thing constantly invaded and penetrated by the machinery that we build and set in motion: the human as the fleshy core to a constantly growing inorganic superstructure.

And others!

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BOOKS ON MY TBR SHELVES BY BLACK AUTHORS:

Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera

Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown

The Roommate Risk by Talia Hibbert

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Cool. Awkward. Black. by Various

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

No Gods. No Monsters. by Cadwell Turnbull

Tristan Strong Punches A Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia

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Have you read any of these books? Are any on your TBR?

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Happy reading!

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📚 May Reading Round-Up 📚

I finally can say that I've read LOTR! Or, at least, the first book (I've also read The Hobbit). May was a good reading month, in which I was once again able to get to some of my long-waiting TBR, and where I also decided to re-read The Greenwing and Dart series by Victoria Goddard (which is delightful as always).

- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (the audiobook by Andy Serkis was amazing; liked the first half better than the second, made more sense than the movies but was less emotional, didn’t love the narration style or some of the themes, loved our best boys and more of Bilbo... Boromir 😭)

- Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher (Good, funny, loved the romance, great ending, didn’t feel like there was a final character resolution but there was growth, definitely setting up later books)

- Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly (Good, somewhat unrealistic, loved the messages and themes, binged it in a few sittings)

- Calamity by Constance Fay (Very funny, intriguing worldbuilding, cute romance, didn’t love the take on this trope but didn’t hate it)

- Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas (Read it in one sitting, beautiful, bittersweet, cute, a fun read, really loved this take on Neverland and Peter Pan)

- Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (Fun, really enjoyed the middle, liked the characters, compelling, didn’t love the ending or how the romance was resolved, great worldbuilding)

- Stargazy Pie by Victoria Goddard (Re-read, a fun emotional ride, noticed even more hints and details, loved it)

- Bee Sting Cake by Victoria Goddard (Re-read, the emotions didn’t quite hit me as much this time, loved it, heartwarming and validating)

- Whiskeyjack by Victoria Goddard (Re-read, ending got me all emotional, such fun)

- Blackcurrant Fool by Victoria Goddard (Re-read, not too intense, emotional ending, really enjoyed the plot and the characters)

- Love-in-a-Mist by Victoria Goddard (Re-read, delightful, fun, heartwarming, didn’t like Master Boring as much)

- Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson (Compelling, great worldbuilding and interesting characters, felt a bit let down by the resolution/ending)

- Batman: Wayne Family Adventures Vol. 3 by C.R.C. Payne and Starbite (Got very emotional, a fun read)

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Launching Today: PJ Holden’s Null Space

Null Space is a new weekly webcomic beginning today, Friday 6th October, the brainchild of 2000AD artist PJ Holden, featuring a veritable feast of big name writers from science fiction and fantasy, some making their debut as comic writers

Null Space is a new weekly webcomic beginning today, Friday 6th October, the brainchild of 2000AD artist PJ Holden, featuring a veritable feast of big name writers from science fiction and fantasy, some making their debut as comic writers with this project. “Each story will be self contained, set in its own world and be a delicate little gem of a one pager,” says PJ, whose many comic credits…

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Recent (ish) sci-fi reads I've really loved!

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Got some books from my tbr!