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Khi
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Hyperlexic. Neurodivergent. Genderfluid. Creative. Inquisitive. Insatiable and Voracious Reader. “Labels are the opposite of understanding.” -- Sense8
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Timeline cleanse. Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park this morning like a mirror.
Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. Still as a mirror, reflecting pine trees and a small grove of yellow aspen trees. A thin layer of mist along the shoreline.
October 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Oh hey look it's another hellscape timelibe cleanse... it's Sea Otter Awareness Week!

www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/sea-...
White/tan sea otter on its back in the water with forepaws up and outstretched adorably like it is waving and/or wants a hug.
September 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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some black eyed susans I planted this Spring
three black eyed susan flowers. blackish purple interior to deep red to burnt orange on the petals
August 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Look...

This is how Robert McCammon's Swan Song started...

... just sayin'.
A deer on a suburban lawn covered in large brownish black "deer wart" papillomas
August 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Ada Hoffmann's Outside trilogy is fantastic and full of neurodivergent characters.
Covers of Ada Hoffmann's Outside trilogy. The Outside with large Lovecraftianesque spiralling tentacles. The Fallen with. tiny figure at lower center sitting on a deck looking out over a rocky landscape with tentacle-like arcs of rocky growths. The Infinite with a silhouetted character in the foreground and a shadowy enormous tentacled monstrosity with five purple eyes taking up the rest of the cover.
April 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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I don't care about what orcs are getting up to. Just read the best book about orcs ever written and you will feel the same.
Cover of Grunts by Mary Gentle. Fantasy art primarily reds with orcs doing orc shenanigans on top of a dragon's hoard.
December 29, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Darkome by Hannu Rajaniemi

Biohacking techno-thriller set in the not so impossibly distant future. Anything new by him is a reason to head to your favorite local bookseller and grab a copy.
Cover of Darkome by Hannu Rajaniemi. Predominantly purple. White title, black author name. A couple series of black circles with connecting lines to others representing biohacking.
December 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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The Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu

See other threads for more. Do not miss this epic that begins with The Grace of Kings and has some of my new all time favorite characters.
The Dandelion Dynasty purple special edition set showing the cover of The Grace of Kings with village of towers set in mountains. Sides of the four books also painted with connecting imagery.
December 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Puzzleheart by Jenn Reese

Middle grade with neurodivergent characters. Reese isn't afraid to let the kids deal with their own troubles which seems rarer in today's stories. Can they manage to figure things out when the house seems determined to stop them from putting their family back together?
Cover of Puzzleheart by Jenn Reese. Art with snowy forested mountain background. Mainly sunset colored house with tower and heart covering most of the house shiwing interior rooms.
December 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo

The latest in The Singing Hills cycle of novellas featuring the charming Cleric Chih. What begins as a simple, straight forward tale becomes something else entirely by the end.
Cover of The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo. Predominantly black with light blue flowing script for title at center with stylized group of predatory looking foxes at the top.
December 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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The Truth of the Aleke by Moses Ose Utomi

Brilliant novella series set in a dangerous world where survival means uncovering the truth deliberately hidden away from the scattered population. If you have not read his work before, grab this series.
Cover of The Truth of the Aleke by Moses Ose Utomi. Top half blue background with white tiered fortress of stone with wall in front. Bottom half white backgrounc with upside down yellow buildings and four Biack characters in yellow attire.
December 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Long Live Evil by Sara Rees Brennan

Surprising and fun! Pick it up for the ballroom scene if nothing else. Woman transplanted from our world to a fantasy world of stories she read. Hilarious and villainous meta shenanigans ensue. What happens when you mess with the narrative and it messes back.
Cover of Long Live Evil by Sara Rees Brennan. Purple surrounding black text for title. Voluptuous dark haired woman lounging on throne. Dressed in ornate white flowing gown with crimson dye like blood staining the lower parts of the dress and hem.
December 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Exordia by Seth Dickinson. Tom Clancy-ish scifi debut novel with a delightfully savage and humorous alien named Ssrin and Dickinson's inimitable worldbuilding mainly set in Kurdistan.
Cover of Exordia by Seth Dickinson. Mostly vibrant yellow with red highlights of a suggestively serpentine eye and coils.
December 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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98 books this year feels pretty good!
Best of the year thread here in no particular order. 💙📚👀

The Glass Box by J. Michael Straczynski

"Boots on the ground, bodies in the way." Timely, prescient, important, necessary.
Cover of The Glass Box by J. Michael Straczynski. Opaque glass lit from behind. Blues and whites. Broken at the lower center front. Silhouette of a body behind with hands and arm on the glass.
December 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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The first computer I ever used was a Commodore PET... I volunteered in the library to upload the monthly tapes we would get in and play Miner.
White boxy old computer with built in screen keyboard and cassette tape drive
December 22, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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The cat joyfully flinging itself into a good book (Promises Stronger Than Darkness) begs to differ. 🐱
Line drawing doodle by Charlie Jane Anders of a stylized cat flinging itself into the air with "curl up with a good book..." curved over it.
December 19, 2024 at 5:20 AM
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Choose 30 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers

Day 30

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
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Cover of When Things Fall Apart by Pems Chodron. Light cream at top and bottom with title, author, publisher. Middle image of a wide trail through orderly rows of trees with Autumnal yellow leaves and yellow leaves covering the ground as well.
December 16, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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Choose 30 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers

Day 29

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
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Cover of Dream Park by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes. Predominantly a giant black ape-like creature with mandrill-like snout and little tusks and horns on its head. Hint of a roller coaster in upper right. Foreground has two men and one woman adventurer types running through water away from the creature.
December 14, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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Choose 30 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers

Day 28

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
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Cover of Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein. Art of field with tall pale yellow grasses with green jungle covered hills in the background and tall mountain peaks reaching into a cloudy sky. Foreground had double green doors floating above the grasses and a young man with heavy pack, dressed in khaki army-like clothing and brown boots, holding a knife running out of it.
December 13, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Choose 30 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers

Day 27

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
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Cover of Cosmic Banditos by A.C. Weisbecker. Art of red sandy desert at bottom, distant low mountain range, sunset and predominantly blue night sky. Foreground two men "banditos" floating with legs crossed, both with hats hovering above their heads. Left one holding an open red book obscuring his face, other looking on and holding a bottle of whiskey.
December 13, 2024 at 1:31 AM
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Choose 30 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers

Day 26

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
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Cover of Seven Spells to Sunday by Andre Norton and Phyllis Millet. Art with sunset background predominantly purple with reds and orange at the bottom over a junkyard lot with truck and mailbox. Gold outlined five pointed star at center with a boy and girl flying out of it with galactic background in star.
December 11, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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Choose 30 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers

Day 25

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
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Cover of The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. Three male characters outside closed wooden dungeon door with golden glowing sword at center.
December 10, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Hey look what arrived this weekend! Thank you @subpress.bsky.social for selecting me from all the delightful contest responses here and the super speedy delivery too!
Cover of Jump Tribe ARC by Clive Barker forthcoming from Subterranean Press. Light greenish section with colorful title and author name surrounded by white background filled with Barker's drawings of little monsters that were sold in 2005 as a series of collectible plushies with accompanying stories, collected in this edition.
December 9, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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This one gets one of my favorite quotes with it that should spoil nothing about this alt-history SFF love letter to cinema.

@catvalente.bsky.social sure has a way with words. ❤️
December 9, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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Choose 30 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers

Day 24

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
💙📚👀
Cover of Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente. Boack with coppery beige text and image of woman with hands on knees bent over peering into an old reel movie camera. Wide angle white background to right of camera filled with coppery beige gears, some with spokes. Title there in black.
December 9, 2024 at 10:06 PM