Long Way to a Small Angry Planet This is a rare Sci-Fi book indeed. A long way to small angry planet is written by a former staffer for the Marysue.com. The book is unabashedly feminist, sex positive, inclusive and overall optimistic about the future. It’s not heavy on plot but rather bounces from one small adventure to another resulting in character development but not much else. The Wayfarer is a boring ship, it creates wormholes for faster space travel. The crew is tasked with opening […]
“Alice remembered who she was before. She just couldn’t recall what had happened to that girl to make her this girl.”
(Trigger warning for all sorts of extreme violence.) Violent and disturbing but strangely compelling and beautiful in its own twisted way. If you are looking for a dark retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this book is for you. It should not have been an easy read but for reasons that I don’t completely understand, I found it oddly calming. I have been very anxious and stressed out recently and this book is so dark and violent that it allowed me to completely forget about […]
How can you tell the legend from the facts on these worlds that lie so many years away?
“How can you tell the legend from the facts on these worlds that lie so many years away?” This continues: “–planets without names, called by their people simply The World, planets without history, where the past is a matter of myth, and a returning explorer finds his own doings a few years back have become the gestures of a god. Unreason darkens that gap of time bridged by our lightspeed ships, and in the darkness uncertainty and disproportion grow like weeds.” This is how the […]
Funny, she doesn’t look Hainish – The Found and the Lost part 2
Part twoooooo. Novella 8 A Woman’s Liberation 1994 4/5 Stars Another Hain novella, this one narrated by an “asset” or in our words, slave. In this particular society, these assets are total slaves to their masters through legal status, through training, and through their utter dependence to the system itself. Our narrator, used and abused by her masters, in this particular society, all women, she finds herself liberated by order of fiat by her new master. This presents a real problem. Like in much of […]