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haveyoureadthistransbook · 4 months

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Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden

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A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the expectations of zir human mothers, CEOs of the world’s most powerful corporations, Scorn has made a life of zir own as an investigative reporter, crisscrossing the globe in pursuit of the truth, no matter the danger.

In the middle of investigating a story on the moon, Scorn comes back online to discover ze has no memory of the past ten days—and no idea what story ze was even chasing. Letting it go is not an option—not if ze wants to prove zirself. Scorn must retrace zir steps in a harrowing journey to uncover an even more explosive truth than ze could have ever imagined.

Mod opinion: I hadn't heard of this one before, but it sounds so interesting.

#Emergent properties #aimee ogden #polls #trans lit #trans literature #trans books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #lgbt books #sci fi #nonbinary #neo pronouns #non human nonbinary #to read

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torpublishinggroup · 1 year

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The future is vast and unknown, and the role of technology within it is ever in flux. Here at Tordotcom Publishing, we specialize in crafting literary windows to glimpse potential futures. What robotic creations will clasp hand in metal hand and walk with us into tomorrow?

Take this quiz and read a book lmao

#robots #silly little quiz #the archive undying #emma mieko candon #murderbot #martha wells #all systems red #a psalm for the wild-built #becky chambers #emergent properties #aimee ogden #books #science fiction #tbr

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aroaessidhe · 8 months

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2023 reads

Emergent Properties

fun short sci-fi novella

in a capitalist future, an AI reporter retraces zir steps after zir body & the last 10 days of backup memory were destroyed when chasing a story on the moon

investigating zir own death & also having mommy issues

#emergent properties #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #aimee ogden #this is so good. loved it. thanks mar #such a good protagonist!!!!!! great worldbuilding in a short thing!#the like. digital message boards and communication/gif/emoji usage was good also shdgs. also the one weather channel made me laugh out loud #MATt……obsessed with him. and their sibling relationship.#def for fans of murderbot as im sure every single review of this says #but if murderbot had a bit more gender...#and was a child of divorce #also has a smidge of nb/f

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ninsiana0 · 9 months

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Read EMERGENT PROPERTIES by Aimee Ogden if you love climate change, the moon, speculative fiction, sentient technology, messy breakups, strained family dynamics, investigative journalism, spiders, neo pronouns, space travel & connections.

I received an advance copy for review from the publisher, through NetGalley.

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lizabethstucker · 2 years

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The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca Roanhorse (guest) & John Joseph Adams

4 out of 5 stars.

This is a collection of twenty of the best science fiction and fantasy short stories published in North America during 2021 as selected by guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse, author of "Black Sun", among other books.

A Netgalley ARC provided courtesy of HarperCollins, the scheduled publication date is November 1, 2022.

Contents:

"10 Steps to a Whole New You" by Tonya Liburd "The Pizza Boy" by Meg Elison "If the Martians Have Magic" by P. Djeli Clark "Delete Your First Memory for Free" by Kel Colman "The Red Mother" by Elizabeth Bear "The Cold Calculations" by Aimee Ogden "The Captain and the Quartermaster" by C. L. Clark "Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story" by Nalo Hopkinson "I Was a Teenage Space Jockey" by Stephen Graham Jones "Let All the Children Boogie" by Sam J. Miller "Skinder's Veil" by Kelly Link "The Algorithm Will See You Now" by Justin C. Key "The Cloud Lake Unicorn" by Karen Russel "Proof by Induction" by Jose Pablo Iriarte "Colors of the Immortal Palette" by Caroline M. Yoachim "The Future Library" by Peng Shepherd "L'Esprit de L'Escalier" by Catherynne M. Valente "Tripping Through Time" by Rich Larson "The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han" by Maria Dong "Root Rot" by Fargo Tbakhi

A fantastic collection of stories with varying degrees of fantasy and science fiction woven within. The collection, in my opinion, tends to lean more towards fantasy or a mixture of the two rather than pure SF. A couple even have subtle touches of horror elements.

The main focus of all the stories is people, not hardware, not technology, and not magic, although all three do enter into the kickoff of many of the stories. People, as all really good SF and Fantasy should center on, their emotions, their reactions to what is happening, and their interpersonal relationships to others. Some of these stories touched me deeply, one made me cry, and all made me think.

In all honesty, I couldn't pick a favorite. In various ways they all had something important to say, many of them falling under the increasingly popular and widespread environmental science fiction subcategory. Would I recommend this collection and to whom? Yes, most definitely I would to all readers who like thought provoking fiction, no love or even experience with SFF required.

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crowns-of-violets-and-roses · 3 months

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The bus driver comes in, mopping her face with a handkerchief. “Hey there, Dave,” she says, reading his plastic nametag. “Look, hon, I hate to be a bother, but—” “Infinite passengers?” he interrupts, pulling a sympathetic expression. “Oh my god. Yes!” She sags with relief. “You got room for that many?”

#Aimee Ogden

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radedneko · 9 months

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Mum's tone wasn't exactly the same one that she brooked with her dachshunds when they ran around her house with a misapprehended pair of socks, but it was definitely in the same spirit.

~Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden

#quotes kelly likes #emergent properties #aimee ogden #science fiction #dogs

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lilibetbombshell · 9 months

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quirkycatsfatstacks · 10 months

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Review: Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden

Author: Aimee OgdenPublisher: Tor.comReleased: July 25, 2023Received: ARC Book Summary: Scorn is arguably the most state-of-the-art AI, and that’s not a humble brag. Scorn’s mothers worked very hard on zir code, and it shows. Unfortunately, Scorn isn’t inclined to do what ze was built for and instead would rather spend time traveling around and investigating for news agencies. That inclination…

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aseriesofvariousevents · 2 years

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Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters

Definitely an interesting Little Mermaid spin-off(?), but not one that ever managed to truly hook me. The premise was interesting and I was totally captivated by the world(s) but the story itself felt kind of disjointed and a bit confusing. Atuale’s and Yanja’s relationship was the aspect I found most interesting and I almost wish this story had a prequel (which I guess would just be a retelling of the actual Little Mermaid story) but I just found myself wanting to know more.

Favorite Quote: One has to be alive, to hate.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Author: Aimee Ogden

#sun-daughters sea-daughters #aimee ogden #three stars #certified nora review

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duckprintspress · 4 months

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32 of Our Favorite Sci-Fi Reads for National Science Fiction Day

Duck Prints Press LOVES kicking off the new year with one of our favorite annual recommendation lists: science fiction stories (ideally queer, but it wasn’t required) to celebrate National Science Fiction Day! For this year, 14 Duck Prints Press contributors suggested a whopping 32 awesome science fiction books. Note that there’s no overlap with last year (by design) so make sure you also check out Our Ten Favorite Science Fiction Reads of 2022 for some more titles to add to your 2024 TBR.

Our 2024 Science Fiction Recs:

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

Little Mushroom by Shisi

Always Human by Ari North

More Than We Deserve by Nicola Kapron

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

CrashCourse by Wilhelmina Baird

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen

Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden

Victories Greater than Death by Charlie Jane Anders

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Fever King by Victoria Lee

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Infomocracy by Malka Older

Zero Sum Game by S. L. Huang

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott

Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Trigun and Trigun Maximum by Yasuhiro Nightow

Legend of the Galactic Heroes by Yoshiki Tanaka & Katsumi Michihara

In the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune

Mega Man by Ian Flynn & Pat Spaz Spaziante

Mega Man Megamix by Hitoshi Ariga

Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow

Once & Future by A. R. Capetta & Cory McCarthy

Five-Twelfths of Heaven by Melissa Scott

The Big Sigma by Joseph R. Lallo

Want to come read some of these books with us? Join our 2024 Queer Book Challenge on Storygraph! One of our challenges there is to read a queer science fiction book, and there’s a lot on this list that’d count!

You can check out all our sci-fi recs on this Goodreads shelf.

Wish you could contribute to these lists? Back our Patreon, join our Discord, and you can!

#duck prints press #national science fiction day #book recs #queer book recs #book recommendations #recommendation list

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the-bi-library · 8 months

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Bisexual mermaid books

💕The Fate of Stars (Sea and Stars, #1) by S.D. Simper 💕 The Seafarer's Kiss (Seafarer Duology Book 1) by Julia Ember 💕 Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1) by Mira Grant 💕 Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden

Here is the goodreads list.

Do you have any more recs for books with bi mermaids? Or mermen, merfolk?

#lists #bi books #sapphic books #lgbtq books #queer books #lgbt books #bi rep #booklr #bisexual rep #Bisexual books #mermaid books #Lists

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napoleanbonafarte · 7 months

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I'll read these books in the order of their poll rankings

#lol is this a silly way to choose what to read?#perhaps. but why not right #this is also only like half of the current tbr list #I'm going to set a week time for this poll because i need to finish marinating in the will of the many before i move on to something else #and of course book recs always welcome #poll #tumblr poll #m #booking around

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souldagger · 4 months

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10. What was your favorite new release of the year?

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

10. Ahhhhh i think it's between Bad cree by jessica johns, Emergent properties by aimee ogden and The splinter in the sky by kemi ashing-giwa!

11. Already answered, but here's another honourable mention: Nova by Samuel delany (1968) <333

#ty!!

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cchapsticck · 10 months

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dog at the door

|| tuleloits - kerli || rabid - bill wasik and monica murphy || pizza alley - aesop rock || vol. 1 - i wish - karolina koryl || grey ooze (ad&d monster manual) - david sutherland || rant: an oral biography of buster casey - chuck palahniuk || juiblex the faceless lord (ad&d monster manual) - david sutherland || spleen - charles baudelaire translated by john collings squire || We are Here - aleix plademunt || letter to jean-paul sartre - simone de beauvoir || gauze - aesop rock || untitled - donovan Johnson || letter from another UNIVERSE - f.w. stumpfi || cleansed - sarah kane || a love letter written at the heat death of the universe - aimee ogden ||

#web weaving #steddie #steddie fanfic #fic: dog at the door #wip #wip wednesday #steddie wip #i'm really struggling with this one but also feel really committed to finishing it #like i feel strongly about the premise #even if its really challenging me #so this is an exercise in knocking something loose

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imaginariumgeographica · 4 months

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book ask 3 and 18

3 I already answered but I am gonna cheat and talk about five other books I loved

The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon - this book is a fucking experience. Books to stare out the window of the subway at nothing to.

System Collapse by Martha Wells - I could not fail to love another Murderbot book.

The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan - ditto another Percy Jackson book with the original three getting up to adventures and being best friends.

Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden - what a weird good little robot book! Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto - this was a random graphic novel I borrowed from overdrive in the time the library has been down and I really enjoyed it! Knew nothing going in and had a very good time 18 - How many books did you buy?

I always think 'I didn't buy that many books' and then I think for like 5 seconds longer and realise I in fact did. I bought at least 8. Possibly more. Likely more.

(The ones I can remember are Translation State, Under the Whispering Door (in Boulder!), Learned by Heart (in London), A Desolation Called Peace and Rivers of London (in Toulouse), Wintersmith, two Victoria Goddard books, and the 10th anniversary Ancillary Justice)

#book blog #thanks cousin!

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