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namedafterflowerstournament · 5 months

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Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

Round 1 Poll HHH

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#botanic tournament #tournament polls #round 1 #abigail gentian #house of suns #sf #science fiction #alastair reynolds #bookblr #piranha plant #mario bros.#super mario bros #mario bros #super mario #mario #nintendo #gameblr

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tonsillessscum · 2 months

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The Doctor kept an eye on the Master as the Praxilions readied the craft for flight. He remained comatose, breathing slowly but re-gularly. As vulnerable, in his way, as when he had been inside the Infinite Cocoon.

‘If our positions were reversed,' the Doctor whispered, 'what would you do? Smother me? Something worse? Or accept that there's a part of me in you, a part of you in me?'

Alastair Reynolds, Doctor Who - The Harvest of Time

#third doctor #the harvest of time #alastair reynolds #the master #thoschei #master x doctor #jon pertwee #Roger Delgado #doctor who #dw #ridoctorwho #quotes #thoschei in their toxic yuri era/j #koschei #theta sigma

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figcatlists · 9 months

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Bleak and disturbing science fiction reading list

A list of science fiction novels and short story collections with dark themes and gloomy settings. The selection includes dystopias, post-apocalyptic and climate fiction, as well as unsettling sci-fi horror. See the full list on my website for more titles and links to Goodreads and Wikipedia.

#dark books #book recs #book recommendations #reading list #book list #science fiction #sci fi #grimdark #peter watts #iain m banks #alastair reynolds #paolo bacigalupi #harlan ellison

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beedokart · 5 months

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#the risen empire #johannes cabal #the book of the new sun #revelation space #just meme nonsense #revenger series #alastair reynolds

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beedok · 1 month

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If you ever find yourself in an Alastair Reynolds novel: try transitioning.

It will increase your survival odds from ~3% to as high as 25%.

#alastair reynolds #revelation space #terminal world #I forget what the survival rates were like in other books #some stories let more people live (like the Prefect series)

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catofadifferentcolor · 3 months

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“I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”

― Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

#quotes #alastair reynolds #revelation space #caffeine #coffee

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westvoid · 9 months

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me and my sick idea of making a revelation space playing deck.

of course, I've started with Triumvir Ilia Volyova of the lighthugger Nostalgia for Infinity

this woman is more than I could ever dream to see in any sci-fi series

#revelation space #ilia volyova #alastair reynolds #artists on tumblr #traditional art #art #graphics #playing cards

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haveyoureadthisscifibook · 8 days

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vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#scifi #books #Revelation Space #Alastair Reynolds #poll #l: English

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humbababa · 10 months

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The moment I knew I'd love the Revelation Space books is when, to save herself from falling to death through a several kilometer long elevator shaft, Volyova flies the ship up and down until her falling speed is close to zero when she gets back to solid ground.

This requires trial and error, of course, so it was a very abrupt up and down. She still made it out with only a broken leg!

Her attempted murderer, however, was crushed to goo in the hallway he threw her from.

Crushed to goo via spaceflight. Wonderfully brutal

#revelation space #alastair reynolds #ilia volyova #nostalgia for infinity #science fiction

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riemmetric · 3 months

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I finished House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds yesterday and there are a lot of thoughts in my brain. Most of them are about how much I loved the romance in it and how surprised I am by this.

Abigail Gentian lived six millions prior to the start of the story and shattered herself into 999 pieces (read cloned), which she sent across the galaxy to explore, observe and record. Some of the clones are men, some are women, and they all have different personalities, they are not exact copies of an original person. The main characters of the novel are a man and a woman, Gentian shatterlings (a word which I loved, to be honest) and they are in love. The shatterlings travel alone around the galaxy and meet every 200,000 to exchange memories and build the collective trove of knowledge about the Milky Way. But these two are a couple, which is frowned upon in the community, and travel as a pair.

Is this incest? There is honestly not enough information in the book to decide. The history and traditions of the Gentian Line (these 999 clones) is never thoroughly explained. The narrative itself doesn't make it sound like a bad, illegal thing, and we are clearly supposed to root for the protagonists when they face adversity.

That being sad, I loved the way Reynolds wrote this relationship.

Whenever there's romance in a Sci-Fi novel written by a man, I'm nervous. Sometimes it features overly descriptive sex scenes I could personally do without. If the relationship is developing throughout the plot, then there's always the danger of having ridiculous grand gestures from the characters involved, big declarations of love that come after way too little time spend together. There's always the danger of an annoying breakup for conflict, or the trope of hiding information from each other with the purpose of protection, that nevertheless backfires, or some stupid argument, or jealousy. What Reynolds wrote here has none of these things. This is, in broad terms, a story about humanity learning how to deal with artificial intelligence, and how to face its own demons. It's a mystery and it has lots of action, and it has a pair of characters who are in an established relationship and experience the plot together. They are together as often as they can be. Sometimes their different responsibilities force them apart and they are perfectly able to exist without each other, but they are always each other confidant, the first person to know what the other goes through and what the other is thinking. They are each other's most trusted person and they never betray each other. They make love, but they also embrace, and kiss and hang around balconies looking out at the world together. They hold hands whenever they're close, they find each other in crowds, they sit next to each other at breakfast even when surrounded by their peers. They give each other space and they give each other support, and there is such a sense of trust and solidarity in everything they do.

It was so sweet. They were so cute. I can't stop thinking about them. The casual hand holding sold me their love better than any of their big declarations at the end. There was as much softness in their interactions as was passion and I simply fell for it.

#house of suns #alastair reynolds #technically they're clones but he wrote it like they were all completely different people #who share memories though so they're all extremely in tune to each other #i guess under intense scrutiny it is a little weird #but it's fiction. none of this happened. none of it has real life implications. i just appreciate that he wrote softness #in a romance. instead of just a man being brave and woman being impressed by him. while they kiss on a battlefield #book blogging

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namedafterflowerstournament · 5 months

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