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The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
3.75
This book was enjoyable but probably 150 pages too long. I also found the storyline of the main character to be by far the most boring part
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
3.0
This book deeply misunderstood the strengths of the first book
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
4.75
I think at times that this book avoids the most compelling questions about colonialism, language, collectivity and home that it poses. However, it is ultimately a totally compelling love story that is also a dense political story
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
4.25
I enjoyed a lot of the formal and craft aspects of this book. I don’t know how successful the politics or plot of the book ultimately are.
Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire by Mel Y. Chen
4.75
Both books are great! As an individual project, I think I was able to appreciate the flow of this one better
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect by Mel Y. Chen
4.5
The last part of this book (chapters 5 and 6) are fantastic. The first four are very thought provoking but I was also confused (not in a bad way)
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
4.5
When the sci-Fi plot has a cool premise but secretly was about family trauma the whole time 😭😭😭
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida
Quite good. Some places where the argumentation was murky but the throughlines were persuasive and theoretically quite compelling, despite some disagreements I may have
Ink by Sabrina Vourvoulias
2.0
I wanted to like this book but everything from the plotting to the prose was either derivative, tired, confusing or just plain bad.