"Underneath the sleepless eyes and scar tissue, Nash decided, he was one of those people: the sunshine people. The ones so warm, everybody turned their faces to them and basked in it. Not so hot they burned, not so cold they chilled. The just right people." - The Hermetic Library Blog
Underneath the sleepless eyes and scar tissue, Nash decided, he was one of those people: the sunshine people. The ones so warm, everybody turned their faces to them and basked in it. Not so hot they burned, not so cold they chilled. The just right people. L M Sagas, Cascade Failure: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, […]
"That was the answer they’d been searching for—the heart of humanity they’d never been able to replicate. It wasn’t just the power to choose; it was finding something worth choosing. Something worth reaching beyond their nature, beyond their instincts, beyond themself. Something worth everything." - The Hermetic Library Blog
That was the answer they’d been searching for—the heart of humanity they’d never been able to replicate. It wasn’t just the power to choose; it was finding something worth choosing. Something worth reaching beyond their nature, beyond their instincts, beyond themself. Something worth everything. L M Sagas, Cascade Failure: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, […]
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Robert A Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein’s Hugo-winning novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is politically-oriented “hard” sf from the 1960s. Even if we are still fifty years short of the date of the story, being […]
Unconquerable Sun - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Unconquerable Sun [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Kate Elliott, book 1 of The Sun Chronicles Promotional copy glosses the far-future adventure Unconquerable Sun as “a genderspun Alexander the Great,” and the protagonist Sun Shān is indeed a young woman set up to lead the interstellar Republic of […]
Cryptonomicon - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Cryptonomicon [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon is mostly spent see-sawing across a half-century divide of two generations between World War II and the late 1990s. Its central topic is cryptology, and it was written written when one could still be idealistic about cryptocurrency. It is […]
"What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we ever have is here, now." - The Hermetic Library Blog
What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we ever have is here, now. Ursula K Le Guin, Always Coming Home: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Bandcamp, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “Now you’re freaking me out,” Gary said. “I’m freaking myself out,” […]
System Collapse - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews System Collapse [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm (unabridged) (abridged, dramatized), Publisher, Local Library] by Martha Wells, book 7 of the Murderbot series. This book has an exciting story, and it reveals more of the implicit worldbuilding that has been going on in previous Murderbot Diaries. But it has practically no narrative […]
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