"This air had winter’s bite, even though at home they had not even hit the autumn solstice."

— Karen Conlin, L. J. Cohen, Chris Howard: Litany for a Broken World

not sure if mistake or worldbuilding

#SFFBookClub

"At first Jace thought he’d chosen well."

— Karen Conlin, L. J. Cohen, Chris Howard: Litany for a Broken World

#OpeningSentence

Review of "Wicked Problems" (3 stars): Wicked Problems

https://reading.taks.garden/user/Tak/review/36146

"Systems, like people, tended to vent their awfulness outward."

— Max Gladstone: Wicked Problems

"The past is a trap set to catch the future."

— Max Gladstone: Wicked Problems

"I thought you thought marriage was a bourgeois praxis privatizing the erotic commons"

— Max Gladstone: Wicked Problems

fediverse conversation

"Infrastructure is a kind of addiction."

— Max Gladstone: Wicked Problems

"She had spent two days in her workshop hovering in the center of four rotating silver rings that trailed shadows and screams behind them, her eyes closed, arms crossed over chest, not visibly breathing, in a state she’d described as “recuperatory torpor.”"

— Max Gladstone: Wicked Problems

jealous

"People who worried about the blood on their hands didn’t end up eating off golden plates."

— Max Gladstone: Wicked Problems

The #SFFBookClub pick for March 2026

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