


Nerd of many hats.



Thanks for these reviews, dude! I remember reading House of Suns (at least I think so - the shatterings sounds familiar), but I’ll have to try the Cook novel.
Ironically, none of that was why she went to jail. It was for defrauding investors. Fun!
CEO of Theranos, currently spending time in jail for fraudulently saying they could do this.


Why the hell couldn’t they have had color passthrough?!


6 degrees below ambient is pretty damn impressive.
I love how you explained both.


Oh gods yes. His shadow looms large over the mythos. Thankfully there’s been stuff like Winter Tide, but we also don’t have HPL doing interviews for the papers or on TV - we can reckon with who he was. She keeps making it more problematic.


Got all excited when I saw HP, but it’s Potter, not Lovecraft. More power to ’em, but I wish it were not in that notable transphobe’s world. Thinking of all the other sci-fi that goes from fantasy to modern to sci-fi … Zahn’s Spinneret, Stross’ “Merchant Princes TNG”, etc.