#annalee newitz

[augustinajosefina]

A request

Please suggest books to me! Preferably in the glove kink/lesbian space atrocities, urban fantasy or dark academia genres but I'll happily try any SF/fantasy at least once.

So far I've read and loved:

Before 2023

The Imperial Radch (Ancillary Justice/Sword/Mercy) - Ann Leckie

Jean le Flambeur (The Quantum Thief/The Fractal Prince/The Causal Angel) - Hannu Rajaniemi

The Windup Girl/The Water Knife - Paolo Bagicalupi

Memory of Water/The City of Woven Streets - Emmi Itäranta

2023

The Locked Tomb (Gideon/Harrow/Nona the Ninth) - Tamsyn Muir

The Masquerade (Traitor/Monster/Tyrant Baru Cormorant) - Seth Dickinson

Teixcalaan series (A Memory Called Empire/A Desolation Called Peace) - Arkady Martine

Machineries of Empire (Ninefox Gambit/Raven Stratagem/Revenant Gun/Hexarchate Stories) - Yoon Ha Lee

The Murderbot Diaries (All Systems Red to System Collapse) - Martha Wells

The Broken Earth (The Fifth Season/The Obelisk Gate/The Stone Sky) - N. K. Jemisin

Klara And The Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

Xuya universe (The Citadel of Weeping Pearls/The Tea Master and the Detective/Seven of Infinities plus short stories) - Aliette de Bodard

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

The Goblin Emperor/The Witness for the Dead/Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison

Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh

2024

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab

The Craft Sequence (Three Parts Dead/Two Serpents Rise/Full Fathom Five/Last First Snow/Four Roads Cross/Ruin of Angels) - Max Gladstone

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - R. F. Kuang

The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling

Last Exit - Max Gladstone

Dead Country - Max Gladstone

Read and liked:

The Moonday Letters - Emmi Itäranta

Great Cities (The City We Became/The World We Make) - N. K. Jemisin

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Autonomous - Annalee Newitz

Dead Djinn universe (A Master of Djinn/The Haunting of Tram Car 015/A Dead Djinn in Cairo/The Angel of Khan el-Khalili) - P. Djèlí Clark

Even Though I Knew the End - C. L. Polk

Station Eternity - Mur Lafferty

The Mythic Dream - Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe

Shades of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic/A Gathering of Shadows/A Conjuring of Light/Fragile Threads of Power) - V. E. Schwab

The Stars Are Legion - Kameron Hurley

Ninth House/Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo

Machine - Elizabeth Bear

Was uncertain about:

Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi

Paladin's Grace - T. Kingfisher

The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

In the Vanishers Palace - Aliette de Bodard

And read and disliked:

To Be Taught, if Fortunate - Becky Chambers

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

The Calculating Stars - Mary Robinette Kowal

The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson

How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu

Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo

(My pride insists I add that I have, in fact, read other books as well. Just to be clear.)

#books #lesbian space atrocities #imperial radch #ann leckie #locked tomb series #the masquerade #baru cormorant #seth dickinson #teixcalaan series #arkady martine #machineries of empire #yoon ha lee #the murderbot diaries #martha wells #broken earth trilogy #nk jemisin #tamsyn muir #this is how you lose the time war #the goblin emperor #katherine addison #aliette de bodard #annalee newitz #paolo bagicalupi #some desperate glory #emily tesh #hannu rajaniemi #a master of djinn #p djeli clark #max gladstone #craft sequence

[torbooks]

Who are you but in book form? That’s what this is about. It’s not complicated. You’re a human, but also a book, so get your main character on and let’s figure this out!

#to read #booksona #quiz #silly little quiz #sweep of stars #maurice broaddus #the warden #daniel m. ford #spring's arcana #lilith saintcrow #the terraformers #annalee newitz #the genesis of misery #neon yang #legends & lattes #travis baldree #tor books

[libraryspectre]

I'd recommend Autonomous by Annalee Newitz for fans of The Murderbot Diaries who were particularly interested in the themes of ownership, personhood and identity, and corporate exploitation. The major difference is that it contains a bot/human romance but imo it's explored in a very interesting way, questioning the deliniation between genuine and programmed desire and if the distinction even matters.

The plot follows two main protagonists. The first is a rogue scientist named Jack who's a bit of a pharmaceutical Robin Hood and accidentally distributes a dangerous drug that causes addiction to work. The second is our robot friend Paladin, who's just been activated, paired with a human partner, and sent after Jack. There's a lot of fun, creative, and bleak cyberpunk and biopunk elements, and I found the characters and story really engaging.

Also, heads up that the romance is complicated and dubiously healthy, but please do not try to cancel this nonbinary author for depicting a taboo relationship further complicated by internalized homophobia and transphobia. Depiction is not endorsement and the (again) NONBINARY author is not trying to endorse transphobia.

Final note, you have some common triggers, you may want to look up a list for this book. I'd also be happy to tell you if any specific trigger warnings apply.

#murderbot #tmd #autonomous #annalee newitz #just googled them to check their pronouns and apparently their partner is charlie jane anders! nice! #edit: fixed a typo #the murderbot diaries

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 095

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

“As long as we tell our urban ancestors' stories, no city is ever lost. They live on, in our imaginations and on our public lands, as a promise that no matter how terrible things get, humans always try again.”

#books #2023 reads #four lost cities #annalee newitz #booklr #lit edit

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Transfem Sci-Fi

Fave Five: Transfem Sci-Fi

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki The Seep by Chana Porter The Unstoppable trilogy by Charlie Jane Anders (YA) Seven Devils by Laura Lam and Elizabeth May The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

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#Annalee Newitz #Chana Porter #Charlie Jane Anders #El Lam #Elizabeth May #Laura Lam #Light From Uncommon Stars #Ryka Aoki #Science Fiction #Seven Devils #The Future of Another Timeline #The Seep #Trans Woman #Transgender #Unstoppable

[thoughtportal]

Looking around at the problem-solvers in wetsuits and hardhats and sensible boots, earnestly trying to build a safer future with sustainable energy, it’s hard not to catch her mood. The sun slants through the high windows, and the chungus has come to rest on the artificial shoreline, squirting water out of dozens of tiny holes. The soft infrastructure has survived, and with it the hope for a blue economy. For a moment, it does feel like Utopia—or at least a healthier world—might be possible.

#Annalee Newitz #blue infrastructure #green infrastructure #doom scroll break #tech news #sea level rise #article #science #science news #climate change #climate crisis #solar panels #solarpunk

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Autonomous | Author: Annalee Newitz | Publisher: Tor (2018)

#books #Autonomous #Annalee Newitz

[mudwerks]

Annalee Newitz

#Annalee Newitz #mobility status #smart toilet #prenant #travel restriction

[aliteratepenguin]

Her jaw aching with everything she couldn't say, Destry glared at the hologram. She thought about the concession the Spider City Council had agreed on and allowed herself to imagine what Sasky would be like if it really became a public planet. A place where every person could vote, and access to the watershed wasn't just for rich clients. She doubted she would live to see it, but maybe another generation could make it happen.

-The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

#books #reading #quotes #the terraformers #annalee newitz #v's book log

[kammartinez]

#the terraformers #annalee newitz #books #science fiction #writing #scifi #sff

[torbooks]

HEY LOOK IT’S A HUGE LIST OF BOOKS!! 

This will probably tide you over until..... Every Book Coming From Tor in Summer 2023? 

But really, Winter 2023 is the publishing equivalent of a no-skips album 😎

#tor books #books #new books #science fiction #fantasy fiction #the terraformers #annalee newitz #arch-conspirator #veronica roth #pinocchio #carlo collodi #gris grimly #hopeland #ian mcdonald #under the whispering door #tj klune #in the lives of puppets #the cage of dark hours #marina lostetter #rubicon #j s dewes #the cradle of ice #james rollins

[my-words-are-light]

I am reading 'The Terraformers' by Annalee Newitz.

So I've been reading this fascinating book lately: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz. It's set far far far into the future where private corporations can even terraform planets very specifically into anything anyone wants. The specific planet this book is set on is Sask-E (or Sasky), which is marketed by Verdance as a "genuine pre-Pleistocene experience". Which heavily restricts the bodies people are allowed to "wear" there because bodies are extremely customisable and people can even live remotely through perfectly humanoid drones.

That bit about bodies is especially noteworthy because the book also has a lot of different ideas of "personhood". Lifeforms are literally made through a bio-mechanical process and decanted with intelligence. There's something corporations use called the "Intelligence Assessment" rating to determine what constitutes a "person" but everyone agrees it's nonsense and calls them InAss ratings. The main character, Destry, has a partner named Whisper that's a moose who is determined to be a Mount; their decanting process made Whisper only able to say monosyllabic words, which Destry agonises over. There are also "Blessed" who can only speak about their role (like shopkeepers). There are naked mole rats, moose, cows, robots, and more designated to be People because of how they were made to be intelligent. One cow person in the cast is traumatised—and genuinely so; it's not played for laughs in the slightest—by coming across a dairy farm full of cows with all the intelligence of livestock. The characters figure this is part of the "genuine pre-Pleistocene experience" and believe this is morally repugnant to the highest degree to make cows like this.

There's a bit later on where workers are pressured to figure out a train system for the main continent of Sask-E. Given that the world is still being terraformed and the characters are against so much as lighting a campfire in the name of carbon neutrality lest the world be tipped off its delicate balance, they determine that train tracks are unfeasible because the terraforming process means the tracks won't even be consistent let alone finished before the terraforming is done and the tracks will be useless. They come up with an alternative: flying trains that use a gravity mesh to fly.

At the council meeting where this is proposed, one character is against using a gravity mesh on anything that isn't a person. A moose in the meeting is against making anything that isn't a person at all. They decide that only people can truly serve the needs of other people by optimising the routes between cities. Plus, the flying train people can choose to do whatever they like; like the Boring Fleet responsible for carving out chambers for the volcano, they'll find it satisfying to do jobs their bodies excel at. Other characters aren't concerned that the Flying Train Fleet will be averse to designing optimal routes and travelling to hundreds of cities across the globe. Unanswered questions like "How will every city weigh in on their transit needs?", "How will we know when new trains, routes, or stations are needed?", and more can be answered by the train people themselves.

#the terraformers #annalee newitz #sci-fi #science fiction #terraforming #novels #books #reading recommendations

[libraryspectre]

I'm gonna make a playlist for Autonomous by Annalee Newitz and it'll just be FTWWW by MCR 30 times

#very niche joke for the intersection of people who have read this book and also know mcr deepcuts #ah well i post for myself #autonomous #annalee newitz

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 026

The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

“Sometimes the best way to handle resources is to perceive when they aren’t resources at all. They are people.”

#books #2023 reads #the terraformers #annalee newitz #booklr #lit edit

[thepaper]

Reading The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz is like, yeah okay its about cool space park rangers. Yeah okay, we still hate capitalism.

..okay so they figured out how to talk with animals, including moose. Cool

...okay so the moose can fly

...

Okay so the moose are having one night stands in the underground volcanoe of the secret society of people. Yeah okay.

#the terraformers #annalee newitz #i do not know how i feel about all of this #what is one supposed to think about when faced with meerkats who talk shit about dogs who are mad at humans for them into #loving them for centuries #is this book good??? or is it PETA propaganda? i cannot tell

[thoughtportal]

Zines are DiY publications that grew to prominence in the early twentieth century scifi fan community, then morphed into a punk subculture in the 70s and 80s ... and now they're back! We talk with two guests who take us deep into the history and future of zines: Lynn Peril, who created the iconic zine Mystery Date in the 1990s, and Lawrence Lindell, author of the new graphic novel Blackward, about queer Oakland teens who organize a Black zine fest.

Notes, Citations, & Etc.

Lynn Peril contributes regularly to HiLoBrow

Bookshop.org has two of Lynn’s books for sale

Lawrence Lindell’s website plus his page at Radiator Comics

Lawrence helps to run Laneha House

Lawrence Lindell on Instagram and TikTok

#our opinions are correct #podcast #podcasts #charlie jane anders #annalee newitz #zine #zines #zine fest #1990s #1980s #fan zines #science fiction #horror #hp lovecraft