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I'm not someone who makes a lot of fan-art, but Sometimes that happens. Nyxnissa So Dasheem from the Bel dame-books of @kameronhurley is a character I immediately fell in love with. She is a female protagonist I want to see: Hard as nails, tragic, ill-tempered and immoral. If you, like me, love dark and brutal fiction with a feminist angle, you definitely should check out Hurley's books. Not only does she write excellent out of box-female characters, her way of world-building is also refreshingly unique. You won't be disappointed!

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last book read + last stethoscope used, part 21

I have been reading a lot lately, but I've read a few duds. But then there was:

This has been on my to-read list for years, solely for the steampunk stag beetle art. Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover, because this one was pretty exciting. The stethoscope pictured is MDF Instruments' Procardial Titanium cardiology stethoscope in Botswana agate and rose gold, my first of the brand and the beginning of my obsession with it. The book is sci-fi/speculative fiction author Kameron Hurley's Meet Me in the Future, a weird, sometimes gory, always imaginative short story collection and my introduction to the author. There were a couple of stories that confused me, and then I went online and found out that they were meant as companions to some of the author's novels, which I might have to pick up. While this collection was darker than any Star Trek series I can think of, it, too, skillfully uses futuristic situations as allegories for social situations we face now. Granted, the best science fiction does at least a little of this. Hurley plays with our ideas about gender by sometimes deliberately never revealing a character's gender, or creating a society with multiple established genders (to name a couple of examples) seamlessly, almost in a way that no one could shout, "It's woke!" in a derogatory manner (though it certainly is and there's nothing negative about that). Despite my sensitive stomach and aversion to most things graphic, I think my favorite couple of stories followed a body-hopping (thus immortal) mercenary and his human and pig companions in "Elephants and Corpses" and "The Fisherman and the Pig."

Title: God's War | Author: Kameron Hurley | Publisher: Night Shade Books (2011)

My Favorite Books I Read in 2023 (In No Particular Order)

Check out these books that I loved reading during 2023

In previous years, I’ve limited my favorite books read in a year posts to ten. This year, I decided not to limit myself because I read so many books I absolutely adored in 2023 and I just couldn’t pare them down to ten. As always, not all of these books were published in 2023, but I read all 61 of them between 1st January and 31st December 2023. These were a mixture of fiction and non-fiction,…

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20 Women Writers Every Fantasy Reader Should Check Out!

Fantasy is a genre that has traditionally been dominated by male writes. However, in recent years, female authors have been gaining recognition for their incredible works of imagination and creativity. In this blog post, you’ll twenty women writers that every fantasy fan should read (with one more honourable mention). Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin is a legend in the world of science…

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Dear God it's pure agony being a fan of media that has a (near) nonexistent fandom😢. Like the tags are empty no fanart, no analysis, no memes I'm lucky if I see a gifset edit...Hell indescribable.

Please people I'm dying here, I'm writhing and crying. So like peep those tags pick up any that interest you and join me so their fandoms aren't empty and Inactive 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

I joined up because the aliens were ruining the world. I joined up because I thought I was the good guy. We're the good guys. We're made of light. I wish I was as stupid as I used to be.

Authors love to oversell the importance of stories and fiction. “It can change the world” and all that. “More important now than ever.” And sure, I’ll include myself in that number. The board in my own eye and all that. So hopefully it’s somewhat credible when I say that A LOT of purported antifascist and anticapitalist modern fiction is liberal nothing.

And hopefully that, in turn, lends some credibility to the following statement: The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley is the only modern fiction I would legit call honestly and openly antifascist.

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

Today's sapphic book of the day is The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley!

Summary: "The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…different. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief—no matter what actually happens during combat.

Dietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops that don’t sync up with the platoon’s. And Dietz’s bad drops tell a story of the war that’s not at all what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think is going on.

Is Dietz really experiencing the war differently, or is it combat madness? Trying to untangle memory from mission brief and survive with sanity intact, Dietz is ready to become a hero—or maybe a villain; in war it’s hard to tell the difference."

It has literally only occurred to me right now that these two works have a lot of similar themes/motifs and are, in general, extremely wet and squishy and gross.

October Book Reviews: Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley

A collection of Kameron Hurley novellas, all about the titular Nyx. Apocalypse Nyx is set in a world which is grim, overrun by violent mercenaries, war-torn, and in possession of extremely disturbing bug-based organic technologies. The bleak outlook is aided and abetted by Nyx, who’s probably the poster child for Women’s Wrongs. All of the stories were well executed, and it’s interesting to see a main character who’s not just morally grey, but fairly uncomplicatedly a bad person. Nyx wouldn’t enjoy it, but she’d send a member of her team to die in an instant. She’d also have no problem murdering children or small animals. Definitely one for the Sapphic Space Atrocities pile, heavy on the atrocities. 

Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert. god’s war - kameron hurley