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The Book of the Phoenix-a great work by a new favorite author

The Book of the Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor

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I first heard of the works of Nnedi Okorafor through a friend who attended a writing workshop with her many years ago but this is the first work of hers that I have read. And I loved it but it is a complicated, dense work. The story begins in Africa. The world has been devastated by some calamity and this older man is seeking shelter to avoid an unusual storm. In a cave, he finds computers that provide him with a recording of the woman […]

A pox on novella cliffhangers!

Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

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I listened to the first Binti story as an audio book without knowing that it wasn’t a full-length book, and then had looooots of road trip left when it was done. So I was prepared this time, but it still ended very abruptly and left me in the lurch! I like Binti a lot, though, and I am very interested to see how she gets out of this latest cliffhanger. Binti and her jellyfish alien friend Okwu have completed their first year at university, and […]

Short story review dump (Part III)

Mono no aware by Ken Liu

The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

The Hofzinser Club by Michael Chabon

The Baboon War by Nnedi Okorafor

Childfinder by Octavia E. Butler

The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever

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Mono no Aware by Ken Liu (5 stars) Mono no aware is a Japanese phrase meaning “the pathos of things”. It’s the bittersweet feeling of sadness at the impermanence of things, a careful blend of appreciation and sadness that nothing can last forever. It’s the phrase I didn’t know that I needed in my life – but I think I do, because I experience it fairly often. I think it’s one of the reasons I love Haruki Murakami’s work so much. There is a delicate […]

We are being pursued by guys.

Coyote Doggirl by Laura Hanavalt

LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorofor

Black History in its Own Words by Ron Wimberly

FTL, Ya'll by C Spike Trotman

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Coyote Doggirl This is a comic book/kind of graphic novel by one of the animators of Bojack Horseman. This story as it is takes place in a Wild West setting and our hero Coyote Doggirl is being pursued along with her horse by “guys” as she states. She takes off running from them, and as they pursue more and more weird little occurrences happen to her. The humor in this is book is subtle and weird and kind of arbitrary in funny ways. There’s no real […]

Interesting ideas but needed more space to grow

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

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Binti is a novella starting a series about a young woman leaving her home in Africa to travel to a distant world – Oomza University. She is the first of her people – the Himba – to leave their homelands but she is an incredibly gifted harmoniser who even as a teenager is capable of building complex instruments called astrolabes. Basically she is gifted at the complex and advanced mathematics that are used to propel this future society. The book introduces intriguing concepts such as […]



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