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Reading 'The Perfect Match' right now, thinking about relevant it is to AI and the general state of the Internet/pocket technology today, then finding out it was published in 2012, is kind of impressive. Ken Liu writing some speculative fiction that speculates a little too accurately...

Kinda find it funny that someone tried to self-immolate for a political cause but the fire suppression system on a military space vessel immediately put them out. Maybe pick your venue better, would-be martyr.

Here we go, the final day...

Shards, so much is happening to everyone everywhere all the time. Even Zahel/Vasher

Alright let's do this

New Sanderson let's go! That Rosharan armor and Shard-Gun definitely caught too much of my attention, but I still guessed the Scadrian reveal about 2-3 paragraphs before it was confirmed.

Ah Cordelia, I too want to kick a president that I didn't vote for in the balls with a jackboot...

Alright, time for another absolute chonker of a book. Surprisingly not by Sanderson this time.

Alright, it's space time.

Fuckin storms, Sanderson puts Kaladin through the grinder so much he got peppercorns wincing in pain.

It's been too long, time to actually finish this behemoth so I can start the next one...

After almost 60 years and 3 movie adaptations, it's time to finally read this. Fear is the mind-killer.

The Hesperians have invented Amazon drone delivery. Nikara is doomed...

After reading the other 6 books, reading the slow-burn Phedre-Joscelin romance with the full benefit of hindsight is absolutely hilarious.

Rin and Kitay: "Fight or Flight? Why not both?"

I always wondered why there was gunpowder but no guns. Then the Hesperians show up with arquebuses and airships...

Vaisra, to Rin and the rest of the Cike: 'Get in losers, we're going government-toppling'

Hobbs establishing the power of Skill healing just means she can beat up Fitz even more now.

Fitz you fool. The heart is nothing to take lightly.

The Fool proving an absolute riot here

From alt history to secret history, in which our young female protagonist almost decapitates Lavrenty Beria with his own sword...

When a character gets un-fridged from the protagonist's tragic past *chef's kiss*

I checked the 70th meridian on a map, and wow that gives Hitler almost all of Afghanistan and everything west of it. Greedy Austrian dictator. Also, kinda funny when the one kid known for slashing tires does end up slashing tires, but in a helpful way...

I'll let this Axis-victory alternate history setting slide, not least because it's made out to be a fragile victory full of tension and cracks.

This whole book feels like a fusion of Mad Max and Fallout with a dash of Top Gun and I'm kinda here for it