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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Buzzing Off #1: Aphantasia and the Beautiful Image (Eclipse, Hirano)

Introducing Buzzing Off, a new series where I talk about the books I didn't finish. I'm thinking of it as a sort of supplement to No...

Friday, January 19, 2024

Valentine's Compilation #9: End

The theme of this year's Valentine's Day Compilation is: End . As always, the theme is unimportant. Use it as inspiration if it w...

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

A war, a Myth, and a Genre: On More Perfect

Two of the best SF novels I read in 2023 happened to revolve around the Orpheus myth. In Temi Oh’s More Perfect (her sophomore, after 20...

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Valentine's Day Compilation #8: Cute [Call for Submissions]

The theme for this year's friends of Fuck the Polis! Valentine's Day Compilation is: Cute . It's not that we aren't already...

Friday, June 3, 2022

A Ranked Paragraph About Every Book I Read in 2021 (part 2: pre-2021 books edition)

51) The End We Start From (Megan Hunter) Nah. 50) Bee People and the Bugs They Love (Frank Mortimer) I think I would actively dislike Frank...

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

A Ranked Paragraph About Every Book I Read in 2021 (part 1: 2021 Books edition)

36) My Annihilation (Fuminori Nakamura) (2022) A mystery about identity, electroshock therapy, subliminal messaging, and revenge. I was not...

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