I am thinking about the first thing I wrote after M was born, and while I thought that RPG sourcebook turned out pretty well, it's definitely not a classic that will be beloved for centuries. Torn between admiring Shelley's supermom abilities, and asking M why he wasn't more inspiring at 4 months!

I'm working on a bibliography - and indeed on a non-fiction book! So... I think that's a "coming soon."

Yeah, they try to up their figures with dark design. Part of how you know they *know* not one wants it.

I have that one downstairs! I love it because of the etymologies.

I think there are actual use cases for generative AI when what you want is the qualitative average of a dataset. Have our hiring decisions tended sexist? The exaccerbate-your-biases machine will tell you! But right now we're training it wrong, using it wrong, and betting the planet on our mistakes.

Too small to carry the boom box on my shoulder, and too sound-sensitive to blast it. Kept the encyclopedia at the library. Used the dictionary too often for it to get dusty!

Oh no, that sucks!

*Thank* you. From my old NWO combat librarian.

Very similar to my bookshelf! I would also add Jo Walton, Arkady Martine, Malka Older, Rosemary Kirstein, Victoria Goddard, Max Gladstone, Naomi Novik *and* Naomi Kritzer, Monaquil Blackgoose, Freya Marske, and Sarah Pinsker.