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nylki

nylki@bookwyrm.world

Joined 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Favorite genres: SF, Solarpunk, queer stuff, historic fiction (and nonfiction). I often read novels but sometimes in a mood for short stories and novellas as well. (Clarke's World eg.)

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reviewed Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #3)

Ann Leckie: Ancillary Mercy (Paperback, 2015, Orbit) 5 stars

For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as …

Review of 'Ancillary Mercy' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Great series! Lots of tea. Finishing the first book I was to both parts excited and anxious. For one, its just fun to read yet also very intelligent and deep SF. But I was worried about being drowned in too much tea, which I kinda did, but in a good way, I guess. Ann Leckie has a way to writing really lively and nunanced conversations. If it needs tea to do that, then so be it.

Hard to rate the books separately, since they felt like one in the end. But highly recommended!

Kim Stanley Robinson: Aurora (Paperback, 2015, Orbit) 4 stars

"Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as …

Review of 'Aurora' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Ranges in the 4-5 stars range for me. Looking back, after finishing the last chapter, this feels a bit like the generation ship novel I always wanted to read, but didn't know existed or what title to look out for.
Its story is spanning decades, the ship has huge biomes where people actually lived multiple generations and create their own society and culture with all its issues due to being confined in a limited space (and gene pool), without a way to just move somewhere else or choose a different path as you could on earth.

The narrator perspective was something I liked about this book as well. The printed story in Aurora, which is essentially about the inhabitants/settlers of the generation ship, starts as a dialog between one of the ships engineers and the ships kind-of-sentient AI. Later this perspective changes again a bit, but that is spoiler territory. …

reviewed Queer*Welten: 09-2022 by Lena Richter (Queer*Welten, #9)

Lena Richter, Delete this entry, Heike Knopp-Sullivan: Queer*Welten: 09-2022 (Paperback, German language, 2022, Amrûn-Verlag, Ach je Verlag) 4 stars

Review of 'Queer*Welten 09-2022' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Da ich meist lieber in Richtung SF als Fantasy lese war ich mir erst nicht wirklich sicher wie interessant ich das Thema diesmal finden würde, aber am Ende waren dann doch einige sehr schöne und untereinander sehr unterschiedliche Texte dabei!

Mein Favorit unter den insgesamt 5 Kurzgeschichten ist Schwache Anziehung von Helen Faust in der es eine auf die Probe gestellte Freundschaft zweier Space-Zoll-Kontrolleurnnen die zusammen auf einer Raumstation im Erdorbit leben.

Direkt dahinter kommt toxArt von Juni Is, eine interessante Mischung aus Detektiv-Mystery-Kunsthistorik. Die Story war fesselnd und als jemensch mit Kunstgeschichtsstudium hinter mir, hat der Text auch ganz gut das In-Erinnerungs-Schwelgen-Zentrum im Gehirn gekitzelt ;)

Dann war da noch Raya'sii: Die Legende von Raya, das für mich für das Gedankenspiel der "nicht-humanoiden, intelligenden Wesen" (Zitat aus den Inhalts-Tags für die Geschichte) und der Kommunikation über Spezies-Grenzen hinweg besonders interessant war.

Vom Kinderkriegen von Gerit Virgina Ariel …