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You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win.
I’m going to tell you a thing about me. It’s something I’ve been thinking about because I was up until 6AM playing games again. Specifically, this game ( Read more... ) -
[book review] Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch book 2)
Sequel to: Ancillary Justice
Breq is now in command of her own ship and has reached the station outpost for Athotek, an agricultural planet responsible for the cultivation of a great deal of the Radch’s beloved tea. Given that she doesn’t know who to trust given the impending civil war it’s fortuitous that there is a portion of the station cut off ( Read more... ) -
[book review] Melanie's Marvelous Measles by Stephanie Messenger
Tina is worried when several students, among them her friend Melanie, don’t show up for school. There has been an outbreak of measles, a horrible disease she heard used to kill kids. Jacob, an arrogant classmate, declares he has been vaccinated and is therefore immune. But Melanie was vaccinated, too, and yet she and other vaccinated classmates ( Read more... ) -
[book review] Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch book 1)
Twenty years ago Breq was a spaceship, a consciousness spread across multiple ancillaries and the audio-visual system of the ship itself. During an orchestrated uprising on the planet on which she was stationed her connection with her other selves was severed, and one of her selves witnessed yet another massacre of innocent people at the orders of ( Read more... )
