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Not so much a blog; just lots of books

Currently reading

The Grace Year
Kim Liggett
The New Voices of Science Fiction
Jamie Wahls, Sarah Pinkser, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Rebecca Roanhorse, S. Qiouyi Lu, Darcie Little Badger, Kelly Robson, Nino Cipri, Amal El-Mohtar, Sam J. Miller, E. Lily Yu, Alice Sola Kim, Suzanne Palmer, Alexander Weinstein, Rich Larson
Progress: 13%
Engineering Animals: How Life Works
Alan Mcfadzean, Mark Denny
Progress: 125/314pages
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Nicholas P. Money
Conservation of Shadows
Yoon Ha Lee
Progress: 22%
Le premier jour
Marc Levy
Progress: 180/496pages
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
Herman Melville
Manifold: Time
Stephen Baxter, Chris Schluep
Progress: 99/480pages
The Long War
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett
Progress: 68/501pages

Reading progress update: I've listened 203 out of 850 minutes.

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction - Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman calls Terry Pratchett a "science fiction writer." Perhaps that's the real reason I've always liked him.

Terry was a science fiction writer. It was the way his mind worked: the urge to take it all apart and put it back together in different ways, to see how it all fit together. It was the engine that drove Discworld, not a “what if” or an “if only” or even an “if this goes on…” It was the far more subtle and dangerous “if there was a really a —, what would that mean? How would it work?”