I'm reading Moby Dick, which is actually incredible even though the kind of woke racism is hard to parse and interpret.

I'm also reading "Red Revolution, Green Revolution" about agriculture and science in the early days of the Mao's China. It's also really fucking good.

  • discontinuuity [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Thanks to whoever recommended Cosmonaut Keep by Ken Macleod, it was a really fun sci-fi adventure with flying saucers and communism, and I've been reading the sequel Dark Light.

    Also thanks to whoever recommended Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin (published in The Year's Best Science Fiction 2018 but you might be able to find it elsewhere). It's a really interesting short story about what happens when Musk-y libertarian capitalists fuck off to start their own Galt's Gulch in space and all the proletariat on Earth clean up their mess and create a sustainable society. I had a similar idea for a novel I was gonna write and it's simultaneously exciting and disappointing that she wrote a better version of my idea.