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Traci1
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☄️☄️☄️☄️
This was lots of fun. Short and sweet, and almost cozy. Definitely want to read the next in the series.

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Points: 5hours(50)+tbr(25)+1=76
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sarahgreatlove
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A really fun, fast space adventure that I enjoyed thoroughly. Our narrator is spunky, funny and independent and is definitely hiding something. It‘s fun trying to work out what and then how it‘s all going to play out. I loved the cast of side characters also and the banter with our main man.
Fantastic novella. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the digital arc!

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Decalino
The Surviving Sky | Kritika H. Rao
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Inventive and detailed world-building make this a fascinating read, although it gets overly complicated at times. Ahilya is the sole archeologist in her society, which is dominated by the architects, who have the power to manipulate plants and keep their floating city in the sky. Her husband Iravan is a senior architect, a secretive position that has created distance between them. A gripping tale of survival, power and a marriage in trouble.

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LitsyBirthdays
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Our first October celebration is for our lovely @Daisey …HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! 🥳🥳🥳

Litsyland and the #birthdayfairies are sending you lots of #birthdaylove and wishes for the best day ever!

Enjoy your day, Daisey!

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

squirrelbrain Happy Birthday @Daisey - have a lovely day! 📚🎉🍰📚🎉🍰 1mo
robinb Happy, Happy Birthday @Daisey !! 🎉🎉🎉 Have a wonderful day. 1mo
BarbaraJean Happy Birthday, @Daisey! 🎉📚🥳🎂 Hope it‘s a lovely bookish day! 1mo
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CarolynM Happy birthday @Daisey 1mo
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Bookwomble
Human? | Judith Merril
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"Crucifixus Etiam" by Walter M. Miller Jr is the final story, and a case of leaving the best until last.
Manue Nanti is a Peruvian manual worker in a work team terraforming Mars. His high-altitude physiology needs less expensive support to breathe the thin Martian atmosphere, but this results in irreversible biological changes that make a return to earth at the expiry of his five year contract unlikely.
If there's such a thing as ⬇️

Bookwomble ... pessimistic optimism, Miller captures it, along with the dignity of working for something greater than oneself.
The book as a whole is varied and generally of an above average standard. The clunkers were a lesser offering from H.G. Wells, and one by John Collier that was both the wrong kind of humour for me, and too far over the racist line for me to make allowances for its age. These two aside, excellent stuff 4⭐
2mo
swynn "Crucifixius Etiam" is a favorite of mine. 2mo
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Human? | Judith Merril
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"Make no mistake. A man may hate and be strengthened and ennobled by it. Let us by all means hate oppression and injustice, hate greed and the cruelty of ignorance and fear. Hatred, so cultivated, is a precious thing - but tend it well. Multiplied too rapidly, dropped carelessly in too fertile soil, allowed to cross with ignorant prejudice, blind self-seeking, it may bloom at last into death and destruction for us all. ⬇️

Bookwomble ... Guard your hatred well, then, and sow it sparingly.“

- Who Knows His Brother, by Graham Doar, 1952

Written in the aftermath of WWII, in a world of atomic destruction, McCarthyism and the Civil Rights struggle, Doar's epigraph seems currently relevant, and the post-apocalypse story that follows, a striking cautionary tale.
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GingerAntics Which means that one of the American political parties is using as a how-to manual. 2mo
Bookwomble @GingerAntics Hopefully not, as it's a post-atomic war, mutation inhabited, tribal conflict, subsistence level wasteland 🤯 2mo
GingerAntics @Bookwomble they are open to destroying the environment and making more nuclear weapons. They are very excited to go back to the 50s. I fear, they really are. 2mo
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Bookwomble
Human? | Judith Merril
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"The Gnarly Man" by L. Sprague de Camp
I love stories about Neanderthals surviving into the present, and this is a good one about an immortal hominin whose current "undercover" identity is Coney Island sideshow curiosity "Ungo-Bungo". He unwisely breaks cover when approached by anthropologist Dr. Matilda Saddler, and faces the possibility of the re-extinction of his species.

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Bookwomble
Human? | Judith Merril
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"Who Shall I Say is Calling?" by August Derleth
Maryla and her brother drive by chance past a country house where they see a masquerade party in progress. Deciding to gatecrash, they are readily accepted as attending in the guise of Count and Lady Dracula, despite not being in costume! ??‍♂️??‍♀️
Derleth's dialogue is archly humourous, and the reader's suspecting more than the partygoers about the nature of the siblings is delicious ?

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BookNAround
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LOL! Starting this one tonight.

Meshell1313 That‘s outstanding. 2mo
Aimeesue 😂😂😂 2mo
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Human? | Judith Merril
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"my ambition is to get
my time as a cockroach shortened for
good behaviour and be promoted
to a revenue officer
it is not much of a step up but
i am humble
i never ran across any of this
ectoplasm that sir arthur
conan doyle tells of but it sounds
as if it might be wonderful
stuff to mend broken furniture with
archy"
- ghosts by Don Marquis

Bookwomble After swagging a load of Holmesian books today, I hadn't expected to run across Sir ACD in this SF anthology, but here he is, referred to by Don Marquis' Archy the cockroach, the reincarnation of a suicidal free verse poet.
My apologies for spamming your feeds today - I've been on my own while Mrs B and her crew went to Radio 2 Party in the Park, and my ADH has run a bit wild! 😜
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dabbe Spam away! 🤩 And that picture? 😱 2mo
GingerAntics I‘m not sure what‘s happening in this picture, but it sure is creepy! 2mo
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rwmg Because we associate Holmes so strongly with the 1890s, it's very easy to forget Conan Doyle lived on to 1930 and died after Kafka. 2mo
rwmg Because we associate Holmes so strongly with the 1890s, it's very easy to forget Conan Doyle lived on to 1930 and died after Kafka. 2mo
Bookwomble @rwmg Indeed. The Great War was an enormous impetus for his shift towards spiritualism, so 20th century history was certainly something he was affected by, and which he affected in turn. 2mo
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