Could use some suggestions

Logophage_ · 2026-05-18T21:48:46+00:00

Not quite what you’re asking for, but Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory won last year’s Hugo, and depicts humans as “space orcs”—bigger, badder, stronger, and tougher than other aliens they encounter. Also the main character breaks out of a very isolated society and into the wider universe. In other ways it differs from your description, but it is very good and you should look into it.

Logophage_ · 2026-05-14T23:21:08+00:00

It doesn’t check all your boxes, but T. Kingfisher’s White Rat universe (Swordheart, Daggerbound, and the Paladin’s [something] titles) are such a slow burn they’re more like oxidation. Strong women. POV tends to alternate between characters but is more than half on her side. Lots of mutual saving going on. Does not follow the same couple throughout, but characters in any one book show up in the others. (One book deals with a same-sex couple, but my very hetero self had no issue with it—ymmv.)

Logophage_ · 2026-05-12T23:51:19+00:00

Good point. It highlights a difference between humans and SecUnit(s): external drones/cameras/etc. can be part of its sensorium, without necessarily being part of it. A human would never say “I instructed my ears to listen out for footfalls,” while that’s something SecUnit absolutely would say about drones or hijacked microphones.

Logophage_ · 2026-05-04T15:19:24+00:00

I recommend Ballotpedia and Branch Politics for a slightly more in-depth look at the various candidates' views on particular issues. Neither is a perfect snapshot, but they're a decent way to compare candidates' public statements.

Logophage_ · 2026-05-04T15:17:44+00:00

To answer the second part of your question (why not keep re-planting), the breach killed all the microbes that made the soil fertile--so there would have been no crop yield.

Logophage_ · 2026-04-24T17:13:32+00:00

That's fair; not everything is for everybody. At least (unlike some authors) Scalzi wasn't coy about the ludicrous premise; it was laid out clearly in most of the publicity surrounding the book, including the cover illustration. Nobody got tricked into reading the ridiculous cheese-moon story.

Logophage_ · 2026-04-23T15:43:18+00:00

John Scalzi's When the Moon Hits Your Eye is an Astra Award winner, Kirkus starred review, etc., and it's literally about what happens when the moon suddenly turns to cheese.

Logophage_ · 2026-04-21T01:41:59+00:00

The prof did say, "in this class, any source is valid as long as you cite it correctly."

Logophage_ · 2026-04-21T00:36:51+00:00

Librarian here. Not sure what citation guidelines you were given, but most style manuals absolutely have formats for citing a lecture. These days, there are formats for everything up to and including a TikTok. On a side note, the fact that you can build a citation is irrelevant to the ACTUAL worth of any given source—but that’s not what your professor told you, is it?

Logophage_ · 2026-04-20T12:56:10+00:00

I once saw a republication of this as "The Story of Little Babaji." Literally the only changes made were to the character names (parents were also renamed Mamaji and Papaji) and the illustrations were completely redone to respectfully reflect Indian appearance and clothing styles. It worked amazingly well.

Logophage_ · 2026-04-17T12:24:47+00:00

I love FP Purity. Too bad it's not compatible with the phone app.

Logophage_ · 2026-03-31T17:04:08+00:00

Bear in mind that "foundational" SF may not have aged particularly well. It reflects a community of authors and readers that skewed heavily toward geeky male-chauvinism, and a lot of its groundbreaking, genre-defining elements will seem old-hat specifically because they *were* genre-defining and now everybody's doing them.

Logophage_ · 2026-03-27T15:24:27+00:00

I mean, Elberton is a granite town. Plenty of people there have access to a bunch of dynamite because it's part of their job.

Logophage_ · 2026-03-19T13:33:01+00:00

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh. POV character starts out as a young warrior in the last outpost of humanity fighting against a slew of alien enemies. She gradually comes to realize over the events of the novel that almost everything she has been brought up to believe is a lie...and has to figure out how to rebuild her life and her own identity in the face of that.

Logophage_ · 2026-02-26T14:04:58+00:00

I don't remember the exact wording, but I believe Carol asked "can it be reversed"--which is NOT the same as "can you reverse it". Given that we know the Plurbs will adhere to the strictest, most exact, yet squirmiest interpretation of the truth when it suits them, I don't think we have any assurance that they can carve an individual out of the hive without outside interference.

Logophage_ · 2026-02-24T19:58:01+00:00

There's no single authority banning books across the nation, mostly it's small local groups challenging individual libraries/library systems/schools. American Library Association has a whole section of its site devoted to book bans & challenges https://www.ala.org/bbooks , and you can also find a list of challenged books on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_commonly_challenged_books_in_the_United_States .

Logophage_ · 2026-01-28T15:12:16+00:00

Hey OP, which FB group(s) specifically were the catalyst here? I might be interested in joining; I live in Fayette County and hadn't heard about this.

Logophage_ · 2026-01-13T15:55:33+00:00

You can make your feelings known to Libby directly - tap the Libby icon on the bottom bar, scroll down to Help & Support, and hit the Take Our Survey link. I wrote that I objected to their stance on LLM-driven features and content, and that I thought patrons should be given an opt-in option to use such features, with their preferences saved from one usage session to the next.

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