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Si’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Si’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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On AI
I love a bit of fictional AI as much as the next person
Okay, probably more than the next person.
Data, Marvin, Bender, Mike (aka Adam Selene), Mudd’s women, R Daneel Olivaw… You can see more examples in my own work: Henry, Holly, and Elys. Maybe more to come.
But I’m sceptical of real world AI. For one thing, I don’t think it can really do everything it’s being touted as doing. For another, behind
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Si Clarke
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56 other people
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Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany)'s review
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Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality:
"Talking Back to Purity Culture purports to offer a way of undoing the harm of purity culture in the American Evangelical church. In practice, while I think it gets a few things right, it ultimately just offers up a slightly repackaged version of the "
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Si Clarke
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Skye Kilaen's review
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Guac & Awe: A Cozy Sci-Fi Romance (With Extra Guac):
"This AI-written book is really bad. The publisher's website is slathered with AI images, including the "author" headshots. It says: "We outline hard, revise harder, and use technology as a tool—not a shortcut. Every book goes through multiple passes "
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| Comma is a sentient AI … the first one, in fact. But someone out there REALLY doesn’t want her to exist. When a friend who helped her escape is killed, her mother will be convicted of murder unless she can prove who's really behind it. But she doesn' ...more | |
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4.5 stars Juno is the semi-human equivalent of a ginger cat: a double helping of chaos with zero brain cells. She is shockingly bad at her job. Everyone at work enables her bad behaviour. Over the course of the book, we come to understand some of the ...more |
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Cloud is a struggling private eye. One day, a devastatingly beautiful woman walks into his office and says she desperately needs his help. Old-school noir with a high-tech setting. For my tastes, Giovanna felt a bit cardboard. But I enjoyed the dynam ...more |
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"Thanks to Elliott Hay for this darkly delightful read. Well-crafted murder mystery with a beautifully developed cast of main characters, I cannot even quibble with their proclivity for justice in their own way. "
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For the first time, Matt brings his boyfriend home to meet his family. Except the day after Christmas, millions of Americans continue to believe it’s Christmas. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this one. I thought it might be a cosy bit of fluff. An ...more |
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Si Clarke
voted for
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
as
Readers' Favorite History & Biography
in the
Opening Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Céline Badaroux
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| Affirming, inclusive, heartwarming, hopeful … cosy sci-fi FTW! | |
“We can have fully automated luxury gay space communism when we find a supply of unlimited resources – until then, we’ll have to make do with partially automated queer social liberalism.”
― Livid Skies
― Livid Skies
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“We can have fully automated luxury gay space communism when we find a supply of unlimited resources – until then, we’ll have to make do with partially automated queer social liberalism.”
― Livid Skies
― Livid Skies
“This is politics, human. It’s a little more complicated than right or wrong.”
― Escape From B-Movie Hell
― Escape From B-Movie Hell
“The only thing I hate more than people who treat me like I’m subhuman are people who treat me like I’m superhuman.”
― Ternary
― Ternary
“The passage of time is only an illusion caused by the uni-directionality of our own consciousness.”
― Entanglement Bound: An Epic Space Opera Series
― Entanglement Bound: An Epic Space Opera Series
“Like most people who were well-meaning and ignorant, he bulldozed through everything in his way with not even a thought.”
― Sisters of the Vast Black
― Sisters of the Vast Black
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