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Hier mein Versuch einer Rezension zu Ian McDonalds Buch Hopeland (2023) (climate fiction meets hopepunk meets near future SF meets magischen Realismus).

https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/03/versuch-einer-rezension-zu-ian-mcdonald-hopeland-2023/

#sciencefiction #hopeland

Versuch einer Rezension zu Ian McDonald, Hopeland (2023)

< 124 Kapitel, und - in der Taschenbuchausgabe - rund 650 Seiten. Ein Wälzer, vornehmer ausgedrückt: opus magnum, und ja, nicht nur, was den Umfang betrifft. Ian McDonald hat mit dem 2023 erschienenen Hopeland ein beeindruckendes Buch geschrieben. Um es zu lesen, brauchte ich allerdings mehrere Anl

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hoergen Jan 31

Solar project seeks federal green tick for its koala protection efforts after winning CIS tender

#Renewable #GoodNews #Wildlife #Australia #Hopeland
reneweconomy.com.au/solar-proj…

One of the winners of Australia’s largest renewable energy tenders is still wading through the EPBC, as it tries to convince federal bureaucrats it is doing enough to protect koalas.

Solar project seeks federal green tick for its koala protection efforts after winning CIS tender

A 250 MW solar project, that is adding a battery and won a federal CIS tender, is seeking EPBC approval for its plans to protect koalas.

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Woger the Shrubber Mar 31, 2024

@pluralistic
Happy birthday to Ian McDonald (British novelist). Here's to Hope!
#IanMcDonald
#DesolationRoad
#TerminalCafe
#Hopeland

Keith Soltys Mar 12, 2024

I just had my mind well and truly blown. I'm reading Ian McDonald's latest novel, Hopeland, and about a fifth of the way through he introduces the Music, a machine to play a piece of music that will take a thousand years to complete.

It's like the Long Now Foundation's long clock in a way, but McDonald's conception is more evocative and his description in the book is stunning in its beauty and power. It's the most striking thing I've read in a decade.

#Hopeland #IanMcDonald #SFF #UrbanFantasy

AndyHat Nov 23, 2023

Ian McDonald's Hopeland was published back in February, but page 206 offers some perfect timely advice...

#books #Hopeland

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remotevoices Apr 12, 2023

Hopeland - Ian McDonald - Ian is one of those writers who stuns me every time, I forget just how much I love his writing until I'm reading his work. This is his latest novel, apparently 13 years in the making and a slab of a book at more than 650 paged. But from page one I was hooked by the language and the character and the burgeoning sprawl of ideas. 1/2
#books #reading #bookstodon #currentlyreading #ScienceFiction #Hopeland #IanMcDonald #plums #coffee

remotevoices Mar 19, 2023

"'That's snow now.'
'That's snow,' Amon Brightbourne agrees.
'Fuck snow,' says Kimmie Pangaimotu."
Hopeland - Iain McDonald
#quotes #reading #novels #ScienceFiction #IanMcDonald #Hopeland #bookstodon #books

remotevoices Mar 12, 2023

Lunch of leftover chow mein. A mug of Russian Caravan. Listening to the music of Coil. Reading the new novel by Ian McDonald, when I reach a scene of "coil music." Lovely day.
#reading #bookstodon #books #IanMcDonald #Hopeland #coil #MusicOfCoil #CoilMusic #noodles #lunch #tea

Lambros Tropeas Aug 27, 2022

RT @[email protected]

‼️ 1/ Υπογράφηκε (18/08) η επιχορήγηση της ΜΚΟ #Hopeten (πρώην #Hopeland) με ακόμη 3,15 εκατ. ευρώ ευρωπαϊκών πόρων για τη στέγαση προσφύγων.

Την προνομιακή μεταχείριση της νεοσύστατης ΜΚΟ είχε αποκαλύψει η κοινή έρευνα @[email protected] και @[email protected].

https://bit.ly/xrisa-diamerismata-solomon-ru

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/we_are_solomon/status/1562838245859553280

«Χρυσά» Διαμερίσματα: Ο Μηταράκης, οι πρόσφυγες και οι Κινέζοι της Golden Visa

Ο υπουργός Μετανάστευσης Νότης Μηταράκης οφείλει να εξηγήσει: Πώς μια ΜΚΟ από το πουθενά βρέθηκε να διαχειρίζεται τη στέγαση χιλιάδων προσφύγων; Πώς εκατομμύρια ευρώ από τα ευρωπαϊκά κονδύλια καταλήγουν σε ένα πλέγμα αθηναϊκών εταιρειών real estate, των ίδιων που ελέγχθηκαν για ξέπλυμα και «αθωώθηκαν» χάρη σε μια τροπολογία του Άδωνι Γεωργιάδη• των ίδιων που σήμερα κατηγορούνται από Κινέζους επενδυτές για απάτη. Το Solomon και το Reporters United ξετυλίγουν το κουβάρι.

Solomon

xfacto Aug 26, 2022