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Will Sargent

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Jonathan Hill: Odessa (Odessa #1) (2020, Oni Press)
Scott Lynch: The Republic of Thieves (2010, Spectra Books)
George Lakoff: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (Paperback, 1990, University Of Chicago Press)

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Cordelia Fine: Delusions of Gender : How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (2010)
Terry Pratchett: Men at Arms (2003)
Gretchen McCulloch: Because Internet (Hardcover, 2019, Riverhead Books)

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Dmitry Glukhovsky: Metro 2033 (2013)

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reviewed Blindsight by Peter Watts

Peter Watts: Blindsight (Hardcover, Tor Books) 5 stars

Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around …

Review of 'Blindsight' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

This book fills me with awe. When I read lines from it, I want to scratch down the words on my arms and legs, tracing the pathways over and over again until it breaks through the skin and seeps into the blood.

This book could explain to you in great detail why zombies and vampires are better equipped at reality than you are, bogged down with the delusion that life, reality, existence, consciousness was anything more than the random electromagnetic twitchings of an underoptimized local processing array made out of the closest stable elements near to hand.

reviewed Convention between the United States and Austria-Hungary. by United States

United States: Convention between the United States and Austria-Hungary. (1909, Govt. Print. Off.) 3 stars

Review of 'Convention between the United States and Austria-Hungary.' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

It's interesting, but ultimately it's too close to his other novels. Morgan's a damn good writer and so it's enjoyable, but there isn't much depth to the protagonist -- even knowing that he's defined by his genes, he's too much of a typical hardbitten tough guy to really step outside of his role.

In some ways, this is a book about gender roles; how the idea of masculinity shapes men (the Thirteens), the femininity of women (Bonobos), and how people live inside a role or a body defined for them. It's full of interesting ideas; it's almost a shame that the plot basically forces people into such predefined roles for them. I would have liked Carl to have become a painter.

reviewed Zen wrapped in karma dipped in chocolate by Brad Warner

Brad Warner: Zen wrapped in karma dipped in chocolate (2009, New World Library) 5 stars

Review of 'Zen wrapped in karma dipped in chocolate' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I freaking love Brad Warner. Not because he's a totally serene Zen Master, but because he isn't. The whole point of this book is that despite teaching Zen, being involved with Zen for close to twenty years, Brad Warner's just a guy.

And, as a guy, he screws up, occasionally sits around doing nothing, makes bad decisions, and gets nervous talking to people. He's clear about this. He hides nothing. He's writing his own expose about his life.

And yet; Brad is sane. He's clear about how he feels. He does his best every day to be humble and avoid hurting people, and when he feels pain himself, he tries to deal with it in a healthy way. Even when he's dealing with his mother dying of Huntington's, he's compassionate. The only thing he has a problem with is people who aren't compassionate, who are thoughtless and cruel. In short, …