Allison Denny

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Gamechanger (The Bounceback, #1)

by L.X. Beckett

bookshelves: 2019, 2021, re-reads, 2025, 2026, currently-reading

Reading for the 3rd time

read in October 2019

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Allison Denny said: " I had some ups and downs with this. A lot of the language used feels almost too clever -- is this actually how we'll talk in 75 someodd years? I also had a hard time with my own reaction to the tech and the subsequent changes in society and in human ...more "

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"This is giving me lots to think about regarding my own thoughts about technology and how they differ from what I like in fiction to what I'll use in real life. I do feel like the Pale reveal needed to happen 1/3 a way into the book, not past halfway like it did. I'm so charmed by some of the narrators that I'm still reading regardless." — Oct 23, 2019 03:54PM

Jun 09, 2021 09:13PM · see review

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Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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She shook her head. “They will never, ever agree to bringing a thirty-five-year-old schoolteacher up to the Cloud Ark.” He knew she was right.

okay, but, why wouldn't they? the whole point of the cloud ark is to continue the species. ie to reproduce and raise children. why wouldn't the world's best elementary school teachers make it up there? forget the issues about propellant later: if teachers, neonatal specialists, pediatricians, OBGYNs, lactation consultants, childhood psychologists, etc. weren't getting sent up, that should have been the biggest clue that the cloud ark was a panacea. this book has some major blind spots regarding all parts of the narrative that could be called women's work, and this is one of the weirdest.