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Firing my gun that makes you touch grass ??
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
biggest difference is your side is the only one with grunt units, and they do ~nothing
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
(in this case: asimov, gaiman, mzb 😬)
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
We fought a war to prevent Italian-American Futurism and we can do it again
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Looked for the most boring spine on the shelf and was immediately proven correct!
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
When you picked up a book with a guy with a sword, you knew there'd be a sword, and a guy would have it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I am trying not to be too hard on the store, who I live and tries hard, or any individual author who didn't even get a say. It's a collective failing!
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
@haileypiperfights.bsky.social I hope you appreciate the degree to which randomly pulling this book off a shelf, as someone with a Yellow Sign tattoo, was a delightful jumpscare
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I can understand that Cool Ship is not the current cover meta, but they could've put a flaming butterfly on it or something. Mathematical notation. A bunch of dogs. Anything!!
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Proof that I do not just baselessly complain, I also purchase Books For Freaks. Be the change you want to see in the world
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Hell yeah.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Oh yes, and even worse, they're at the point where your existing social media followers are a serious factor in whether you get published
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Look what they did to my boy.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
While I'm criticizing ~all of contemporary sff let me just say that I just didn't care for the one Tchaikovsky I read. Kind of mid!
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It's so funny how the Mars books are doing the same thing but it actually works and looks nice, one shelf over.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Why did they make the ancillary books look like a 2010s app store icon.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The pulp covers (and i do read a lot from that era!) honestly were very bad on aesthetic merits usually, but they got a lot of creative flexibility! Everything here is so over-polished
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I am sure some of the books are fine, and the art is too, but on a collective aesthetic level this just gives the impression of slop made for and by humans. Humanslop.
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM