China Mieville comes to mind first? Less on the absurdity side, but Naomi Alderman feels like a good fit next to your other faves here too!

(If someone finds my bad teenage fiction on some refurbished tech, please do not tell me, I don’t want to know)

Secondly: the only previous time I donated to an e-waste recycling program, somehow my old cell phone ended up refurbished and sold to someone I knew, and it had all my contacts in it still so they figured out it was mine and it was all very weird.

Spouse asked why getting rid of dead laptops is so hard for me (as I am otherwise very eager to purge junk / clutter): Realized partly, it’s nostalgia for all the writing I did on these machines (!) from bad teenage beginner fiction to college papers. It’s like throwing out notebooks! Or my brain!

@nebraskalaska.bsky.social are we secretly in a 2-person book club together ✌️ reading list in sync ✨

Fun fact: Many many years ago, the author visited a kids shop where I worked in LA in my youth, and I was too starstruck to say anything 😂 like, selling baby gear to all of Hollywood but book people walk in and I’m rendered 😶

Added! What a cover too 😍

(A very hot tip from the creative genius behind 2024’s “Kitty Cell Phone Tower,” or as our neighbors liked to refer to her costume “… a what?”)

Ah I see we’re calling it Booksky ✅ I hope we pronouncing this like “book-ski”