Tag Archives: Science Fiction

Elon Musk thinks he’s Gendo Ikari – what that means, and why it’s both very bad and just cringe

Posted on 12 May 2025 by Spuggy

Why a 1990s anime series about giant robots and depression might just explain Elon Musk. Continue reading →

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Bookthoughts Roundup 2021!

Posted on 21 March 2022 by Dove

OK, so I spent most of last year not writing up the books I read. But I also didn’t do as much reading as usual, so I’m going to do a speedy roundup instead. Sorry! Or you’re welcome!

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Thoughts: Eva, by Peter Dickinson

Posted on 6 June 2020 by Dove

I think I have a reading problem. Anyway. This was sort of unintended – I’d meant to read a Dickinson a while ago after I heard he died, but I couldn’t find the book that was on my to-read list. … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Posted on 28 May 2020 by Dove

Truly, this is the briefest palate-cleanser between Tarzans. Partly because this book is a novella, but also because it’s of that kind of particularly swallowable book. Lately I feel like I talk about swallowing books whole or inhaling them a … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers

Posted on 23 May 2020 by Dove

It feels like I’m absolutely racing through books lately, so here I am again lest I overtake myself in reading and give myself a backlog again. There are some cracking books I ended up just skipping over to get back … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: A Closed and Common Orbit, by Becky Chambers

Posted on 11 May 2020 by Dove

Lucky me ended up going into work for a thing that could only be done in the office, and to make up for this outrage, with me went the colleague who had lent me The Long Way To A Small … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers

Posted on 14 March 2020 by Dove

So, given all the Covid-19 that’s going around, it’s probably a good time to catch up on reading, yes? I have a bit of a (totally normal) cold right now, so I’m feeling particularly sympathetic to the quarantiners. And happy … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Non-Stop, by Brian Aldiss

Posted on 23 February 2020 by Dove

When I was a wee bairn, I was nosing around the stalls at my primary school’s summer fayre with a few pound my parents had given me to amuse myself and raise whatever funds those fayres were for (they were … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: The Power, by Naomi Alderman

Posted on 22 February 2020 by Dove

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would! Not because I was thinking ugh I will hate this book, better read it, because I uh definitely never do that (let me kick Thomas Wolfe under this carpet here), but … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Wer Fürchtet den Tod, by Nnedi Okorafor, translated by Claudia Kern

Posted on 14 March 2019 by Dove

Right, let’s skip the apology for taking so long and just assume it at the beginning of every post, OK? OK. Another German book, but this time with a twist – it was translated FROM English INTO German! The English … Continue reading →

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