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  • The Tyrant Philosophers: Worldbuilding & Stormlight Parallels

    to tell by how often I bring it up, Sanderson's Stormlight Archive takes up a lot of space in my mind She discovers a sprawling and lavish party surrounding the structure; people mindlessly enjoying hedonism third book also hinted at lycanthropy; I truly don't think anything is off the table here, which is kind

  • The Wonders and Terrors of “The Black Company” [Part II]

    riverboat sequence through swamps and jungles that calls Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now heavily to mind Or find a way into other planes entirely, those from which wizards pull their chaotic and dangerous array

  • The Makings of a Masterpiece

    The world is elegant and crystalline; human minds merging and separating in a vast network, needing no Bear with just one more favourite quote of mine: “Wars are dense with causes and effects, calculations

  • 8 (or 40) Incredible Novels to Start Reading Now

    Try to go in as blank-minded as the amnesiac protagonist, and enjoy Clarke's ambient and mysterious storytelling

  • Loss of Humanity

    When a reader opens my newsletter/blog, they will find: a) A new perspective on a social issue – perhaps Despite being victims of the October 7th attack, Israel has more than defense or even retribution in mind We have only ourselves, and I hope we can find our lost humanity before it is too late.

  • Persona by Aoife Josie Clements: Review & Analysis

    The hook: a shut-in trans woman finds explicit content of herself online, which she didn't make. Consider finding Persona at your local library or queer bookstore and giving it a shot. by Aoife Josie Clements Spoilers & Analysis One of the things I love about Persona is just how many kinds subverts all expectations, though, as the women explore the offices of their shared employer only to find Annie's in no condition to be any kind of reliable in her section's narration, but perhaps there are

  • The Saint of Bright Doors: Lost in the System

    It's hard to find a perfect term for this idea in books and film; mimesis is the best the internet could who have reached the fourth level of awakening; patricide; and the assassination of the Perfect and Kind - Vajra Chandrasekera , The Saint of Bright Doors Adult Fetter ultimately finds himself in the city At one point the story finds Fetter attempting to return to Luriat after visiting home. His release is only secured because his father, the Perfect and Kind, has summoned him.

  • A Moment of Silence, A Year of Rage

    can often be problematic: lashing out at ourselves or those around us with any number of different kinds But do we really have to think very hard to find the root cause of our emotions, here and now?

  • Postcolonial Narratives, Empathy Burnout & ADHD

    my favourite novels and series are deeply postcolonial, most often by directly examining imperialist mindsets As I've written about before , I often find myself mentally paralyzed (experiencing executive dysfunction

  • K.J. Parker's World of Deadpan Fantasy

    Those stories that do feature magic lose none of the usual cynicism, however, and simply find new ways Parker's work I find absolutely fascinating – and half wonder whether he does in part to toy with loyal his stories seem to inhabit the same world, but it remains nearly impossible to view them with any kind This is a fan's best attempt at assembling Parker's world, and as far as I can tell it is one-of-a-kind It's hard to find one of his stories that doesn't play with ideas of perception and reality; the " Great

  • Touching Allegories in 'The Tomb of Dragons'

    with a host of new issues on top of a few lingering ones from The Grief of Stones , and it's tough to find Both his fraught journey to accepting the loss and his catharsis at eventually finding his abilities It's a simple scene and slightly awkward, but it's the kind of important real life communication we need in this series, it is to learn that they were all but exterminated 120 years ago by the Clenverada Mining The same is true for all kinds of artwork and furniture.

  • Life Has Value

    fostered real relationships with the working class of their ancestral planet Caladan and bring that mindset a bit scattered today, partly because a Google Cloud disruption has been messing with my ability to find

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