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I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick.

I thought it was entertaining! Really brilliant concepts, I love how this was the genesis of Blade Runner, I can see the clear inspo. I do think the book is a bit better for being shorter while conveying the same thing 😅

One thing that made me feel gross was every time a woman appeared in the book, the author kept going on about her breasts. Not very cool at all.

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I have just finished reading "A Sea of Unspoken Things" by Adrienne Young (review link below) and have moved on to Tomi Adeyemi's "Children of Blood and Bone" which is a cracking fantasy novel in a dystopian world.
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thomasrigby.com/posts/book-review-a-sea-of-unspoken-things-adrienne-young/

Finished reading The Wasp Trap.

I enjoyed it, but it's flawed.

The Good: page turner, kept me guessing, villain reveal was satisfying, epilogue while short was satisfying.
The Bad: MMC grossed me out, cryptic clues go nowhere, first 10-15 chapters are a slog, villain defeat is hilariously bad, story isn't really gripping.

3.5/5

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“THE FIRST ATTEMPT to drill through the Greenland ice sheet was made in the early nineteen-sixties at a U.S. Army outpost called Camp Century. Some fifty years later, the camp remains far and away the biggest thing ever built on—or, really, under the Greenland ice. Camp Century had a bar, a chapel, a barbershop, a movie theater, and a nuclear reactor. All were housed in a network of snow tunnels like those at EGRIP [the East Greenland Ice-Core Project], but extending for miles. The ostensible purpose of the base was to promote Arctic science, but in the nineteen-nineties an investigation by the Danish government revealed this to be a ruse. What the army had really been up to was developing a new system for storing intercontinental ballistic missiles. Its plan was to install a subglacial railway and shuttle ICBMs around in a Cold War shell game. The code name for the scheme was Project Iceworm.” - A passage from the chapter, A Song of Ice Greenland Is Melting from the book, Life On A Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World by Elizabeth Kolbert (2025) which I am reading.

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This week I’ll be offering my novel, HUMAN, for free on itch.io. I would encourage folks to support itch.io, an open marketplace for independent digital creators that doesn’t exploit artists or customers. HUMAN will remain on itch.io at a lower price than at other retailers after this free offering. I hope you enjoy it.

https://bretthodnett.itch.io/human

A remarkable exploration of family, society, and what makes us human, HUMAN will take you from the post-apocalyptic world of the near future, to the two very different societies that emerge 15 million years later, where those few surviving individuals have evolved to become something that we might not fully recognize as human.

When Ayla’s research takes her to a remote river in Canada’s far north, Chris brings their daughter to an isolated island in the southern Pacific. Though at opposite ends of the earth, they both awaken one morning to black skies, and a night that doesn’t end. Slowly, Ayla and Chris begin to realize that humanity has been inexplicably wiped out, and only their isolation has saved them. Besides the handful of people around them, they are now alone in the world. As they struggle to build new ways to live, they must also struggle with how to let go of their past.

Millions of years later, when their descendants finally meet, they have evolved to become two very different kinds of humans, with two very different civilizations. As each tries to build a better world for themselves, navigating love, loss, betrayal and success within their own societies, their biggest challenge may be to recognize the humanity of the other.

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