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The Little Goddess by Ian McDonald ★★★★☆
A former Kumari (real life Nepalese child goddesses who "retire" around the time they begin menstruation) takes on a job smuggling AIs in hardware implanted in her brain, causing her to rediscover a form of divinity.
— Dec 20, 2023 11:32PM
A former Kumari (real life Nepalese child goddesses who "retire" around the time they begin menstruation) takes on a job smuggling AIs in hardware implanted in her brain, causing her to rediscover a form of divinity.
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Rogue Farm by Charles Stross ★★☆☆☆
In a post-singularity world Joe and his wife Maddie encounter a "farm" which is a biomechanical conglomerate monstrosity that wants to take its constituent people to live with most of humanity in orbit around Jupiter in a cataclysmic launch event. I felt it lacked stakes given the nature of the post-Singularity world. It was made into a BAFTA-nominated animation in 2004.
— Dec 09, 2023 05:27PM
In a post-singularity world Joe and his wife Maddie encounter a "farm" which is a biomechanical conglomerate monstrosity that wants to take its constituent people to live with most of humanity in orbit around Jupiter in a cataclysmic launch event. I felt it lacked stakes given the nature of the post-Singularity world. It was made into a BAFTA-nominated animation in 2004.
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The Potter of Bones by Eleanor Arnason ★★★★★
Set on an alien world with a non-human intelligent species. Haik develops a fascination for fossils in her early life, goes on to become a potter who becomes famous for the strange animals that she includes on her pottery, and who goes on to become her world's version of Darwin. The culture that she's part of is matriarchal and most relationships are same-sex.
— Dec 02, 2023 07:37PM
Set on an alien world with a non-human intelligent species. Haik develops a fascination for fossils in her early life, goes on to become a potter who becomes famous for the strange animals that she includes on her pottery, and who goes on to become her world's version of Darwin. The culture that she's part of is matriarchal and most relationships are same-sex.
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I'm going to be reading this through the rest of December 2023 and all through 2024. Currently that's planned on three stories each month. The plan is to post reviews of each story as I go.
— Dec 01, 2023 10:10PM
