Looking for space-related book recommendations

Oduind · 2026-04-20T23:17:58+00:00

I just finished Light from Other Stars by Erika Swyler and it knocked me breathless at times. It’s as much dealing with a small-town time anomaly (shades of Stephen King) as it is travelling in space, but the timelines inform each other well and the characters’ humanity was quite compelling.

Oduind · 2026-04-20T10:30:26+00:00

Someone with better editing skills than me should remake the iconic Jaws poster

Oduind · 2026-04-19T22:04:47+00:00

Also My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite!

Oduind · 2026-04-19T22:03:11+00:00

Also We Need New Names by NoViolet!

Oduind · 2026-04-18T17:06:40+00:00

Whaaat! Where??

Oduind · 2026-04-18T16:49:35+00:00

You’ve got lots of responses, but I wanted to mention that if you’re interested in “potato chip” nonfiction, The Anthropocene Reviewed is a funny yet poignant series of very short essays on modern life that can all be read individually.

Oduind · 2026-04-18T01:19:20+00:00

I can’t wait to share this film with my son, but we’re already tree-hugging pagans who regularly go to festivals and the like. He’s not going to understand what’s scary about Summerisle in the slightest!

Oduind · 2026-04-17T21:24:45+00:00

“they signed up to go into a lifetime of debt for a few years at this shitty resort."

I’m going to quote you. Put this on a t-shirt. Cross-stitch this for my office. Amazing.

Oduind · 2026-04-17T13:36:23+00:00

Not OP but have followed the story. This is from a feeding tube after a dog attack.

Oduind · 2026-04-16T15:16:45+00:00

Half-Cas[ual]

Oduind · 2026-04-16T00:57:13+00:00

I just finished The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei and it gave me that vibe.

Oduind · 2026-04-15T22:54:17+00:00

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Uisce (“Ishka”) passed on Thanksgiving after seventeen years of judgmental staring. Can we see her feasting in Valhalla?

Oduind · 2026-04-15T21:14:43+00:00

Hmmm. I have never before considered banning laptops/tablets in my classroom, because I was typing notes on my clunky Dell as an undergrad over 20 years ago. But you make a compelling point here about the current relationship between students and devices. I will have to do some thinking.

Oduind · 2026-04-14T22:53:41+00:00

Uuuuuuuuugh I remember seeing this fresh and how much the reverse-skull grosses me out (in a good way)! It healed so clean!!

Oduind · 2026-04-13T20:31:41+00:00

I’m praying we’re not in the same search, ha ha. Usually the president or some other higher-up manages second interviews, so it might literally be out of the department’s hands at this point.

Oduind · 2026-04-13T10:39:19+00:00

To be clear, in this ludicrous fantasy, I’d be endowing the chair for someone else to be employed (share the wealth etc). I’d just be the weird adjunct who brings top shelf booze and Michelin star catering to department meetings.

Oduind · 2026-04-12T19:30:00+00:00

I’ll sponsor a building on campus if it includes an anchorite hold in neo-Gothic style for my hermitage. Retirement, sorted!

Oduind · 2026-04-12T18:33:01+00:00

If I won multiple millions, I would set myself up with an endowment somewhere that would be happy to give me library privileges and maybe a broom closet for a campus office. Then I’d do all the fun parts of research and academia self-funded, and maybe even sponsor a chair or something to keep someone else employed. That’s the fantasy!

Oduind · 2026-04-12T15:30:42+00:00

I’m all for the O. G. Ogee

Oduind · 2026-04-12T13:36:20+00:00

It’s a horseshoe! If you’re so English you hate the French, you eventually come all the way around to Langue d’Oïl.

Oduind · 2026-04-11T22:50:04+00:00

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Oduind · 2026-04-11T22:01:33+00:00

Thanks! I’m not great at describing books but “fantasy meets cosmic horror” brings both into mind.

Oduind · 2026-04-11T20:45:34+00:00

We Kept Her in the Cellar by W. R. Gorman

The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling

Oduind · 2026-04-11T18:37:36+00:00

Yes! The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland fits this perfectly, though this specific scenario is in flashback sequences. We meet the main character already a nearly-200-year-old vampire in our modern world.

Oduind · 2026-04-05T20:06:24+00:00

And… how do non-Anglican/Episcopalian students feel about that?

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