Really liked it. It's no Tombs but nevertheless I found the conversations between ged and arran extremely rewarding. And I think the way it ends with Ged is very poetic. Suiting.

There's room for other interpretations for sure... But to me there's something endearing about that otherwise gross combination of valorism and vanity pasted with the veneer of absurd wealth and engineering marvel.

I feel like apollo 47 got close

Pretty good! My friend called this kinda genre of sci-fi cooperation porn and I totally get it. Very anti-mothership ttrpg inspiration. But very good! If you like his other book the Martian you'd like this. A little corny and a little tiresome by the end there but im glad I read it before the film.

Inventing the Renaissance got recommended to me by like at least 4 friends and for very good reason. This book was made for me and didn't disappoint. it does my favorite gimmick "what we were taught is wrong" but it isn't about superiority. It forgives and is a love letter to historiography itself

Drop was probably my favorite book of the year so far!

the egg led me astray. this aint balatro and this aint scrabble.

Money always was the universal agency token wasn't it?

Not saying we shouldnt but like in order to achieve that amount of copper it means we will have massive scars the size of south carolina with multiple lakes of arsenic the size of Manhattan to do this.

Maybe I'm just waiting to be proven wrong with a good enough story. Something that makes you appreciate the irony of a vampire owning all the silver mines in the Colorado territory.