Welcome to Litsy!

A great prequel for a sequel.

1. Tremendous!
2. Nope. But I have made a few trips to the library where I work, and I always come home with something new.

How about you @Librarybelle ☺️

#TwoForTuesday

"And if ever there were an origin world, it was Old Earth." -p.253
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Maybe that's why Hollywood keeps incessantly cranking out reboots and origin stories... ???

#truthinfiction #currentlyreading

1. Tagged + "Spider-Verse" by Dan Slott, "Daring to Rest" by Karen Brody and "Home from the Vinyl Cafe" by Stuart McLean

2. "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. (Now I'm waiting for my husband to read it so we can watch the series together. ☺️ #DavidTennantGivesMeLife)

3. That even after 300 pages, my brain still doesn't register "Spider-Verse" as *actual* reading, b/c "comics don't count." ???

@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads

"Strange, random thoughts skittered through her mind. I will remember. I will remember. Freaky craziness." -p.299

QIWI!!!! ???

#currentlyreading #quotesthatcrushedme

"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell." -p.151

"So even in hell, there are clowns." - p.172

#HomeLibraryTour post 2 of 4. 2nd shelf on one of my paperback book shelves. #SundayShelfie

So much to say! So little space here!
LONG story short, I wish I read this before Fire. I think I would have liked this more without constantly comparing the two. For me, it felt like this story just had (ironically)”the deepness” missing that Fire had with its characters and how they grew on you.

Alien rating: Vinge kills it again with his aliens! They were the best part of this story! Loved how their culture was so heavily shaped by OnOff

Spent a lovely afternoon reading on the greenery next to the Portland waterfront last week. Unfortunately, this book will probably take me about a month to finish!
#stayingdedicated #forthealiens

Really wishing we had flying cars today...I‘m TRYING to get to Portland, Oregon but it‘s already been quite the chaotic adventure after a 6am original flight, delayed in the plane for an hour, deboarded, delayed another hour, changed our connecting flight, changed terminals, and reboarded. At least I have a great partner and a good book.

Sooooo excited to finally start this book. I‘ve only heard good things!

“After thousands of years of searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free, innovative traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds...”

#sciencefiction #scifi #vernorvinge #zonesofthought

If you avoided all other threats, the complexity of your own successes would eventually get you.

You and I, we have this little problem: We‘re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding. It‘s something we have to work on.

What happens when dust can compute? Intriguing question - and imaginative story.

Localizers were by their nature a type of computer network, in fact a type of distributed processor. Each little dustmote had a small amount of computing ability—and they communicated with one another.

How did I miss this? Humans in an inventive far future meet a truly alien species. And that's just the start of their problems.