Listening to Terry Pratchett's "Equal Rites" audiobook for the first time (have read most all of the Discworld books and now re-experiencing in audio form).

Only... the lead character Eskarina is referred to as Esk, and every time it hears it my brain tries to map it to One Esk Nineteen, which is a... very different character on so many levels from a very different universe.

Though... I think Breq would like Granny Weatherwax, particularly her definition of sin.

#discworld #radch

@Wayne_Murillo The #Radch trilogy is one if my favorite SciFi book series! Fun fact: There us a hint to #SacredHarp singing hidden in the story, and I know a couple of #shapenote singers who found out about if this way.
I also highly recommend #AnnLeckie’s #TheRavenTower. Different pace, different setting, but similar poetic approach, and the #gender topic also plays a role. Amazing book, it also reminded me a lot of #KazuoIshiguro’s #TheBuriedGiant.
And since I'm crossposting Tumblr stuff here, have a post about a #headcanon for a shared architecture of the Imperial #Radch spaceship fleet and space station construction, as depicted in Ann Leckie's Ancillary trilogy:
https://irradiate-space.tumblr.com/post/636442851763486720/headcanon-about-spaceship-and-space-station #worldbuilding
Today is the day to plan world optimization.

Saying that the points made don’t matter isn’t a counterpoint; it’s a dismissal. As you were. This headcanon was brought to you in part by thinking about the things that Ann Leckie did note about the...

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I figured out how to summarize a discussion we had a while back

I prefer the #Radch to the #Culture because the Radch has culture.

that is, both are massive imperial societies with a complacent core and an expanding, appropriative edge. But in the Radch, there's still a sense that people believe in something, or at least have forgotten that the soap operas repeat every millennium or so.