en-US Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:42:38 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg ReadStatus9137861241 Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:42:38 -0800 /review/show/7369315294 Sarah D wants to read The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
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]]> Review5258825773 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:09:30 -0800 /review/show/5258825773 Sarah D gave 5 stars to Meru (The Alloy Era, #1) by S.B. Divya
bookshelves: climate-fiction, disability, queer-lit, romance, science-fiction, sf-distant-future, sf-women-authors
1000 years into the future...

What if humans' descendants had solar-powered wings and communicated via color? What does ethical, sustainable DNA tinkering look like? Should human ambition be regulated to protect other life-forms? So many intriguing explorations in this far future scifi! I read Meru with the B2Weird Book Club and loved it.

I was very impressed by the author's creative, intentional approach to the story's themes of environmental responsibility, disability, queerness, genetic engineering, language, human/post-human relationships, and more!

Another prime example of why speculative fiction is my absolute fav � offering social commentary on very timely issues through the lens of imaginative worlds.

Thanks to S.B. Divya and B2Weird for including me in the Meru book tour! ]]> Review5049009409 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:37:23 -0800 /review/show/5049009409 Sarah D gave 4 stars to The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older
bookshelves: tordotcom, science-fiction, sf-women-authors, climate-fiction, latine-authors, mystery, novella, queer-lit, romance, sapphic, sf-near-future
I'm obsessed with Jupiter, but by Jove, I wouldn't want to live there!

Malka Older did an amazing job building out the setting in this scifi novella � showing what it would mean to live in orbit around the first and largest planet to form in our solar system. Jupiter is a gas giant, so there's no surface to stand on, only extreme wind and lightning storms, and intense atmospheric pressure that would crush a human body. Imagine standing on a platform above that chaotic death pit... That's where the story finds us. An eerie, stormy backdrop for this otherwise cozy Holmesian mystery and sapphic second chance romance.

I love the parallel themes that Malka has set up! The foggy setting of Jupiter mimics the foggy setting of Victorian England that Sherlock Holmes called home. The main Watsonian character's second chance at a romantic relationship parallels her work helping society get a second chance at living on Earth. So much packed into a novella to enjoy!

And I will continue to respectfully admire Jupiter's glorious extremes from afar (and fight like hell to keep the chance we've got on Earth right now).

Thank you to Tordotcom Publishing, Malka Older, and the B2Weird Book Club for the gifted copy. Can't wait to read the sequel � The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles � coming out February 2024! ]]> ReadStatus7460723913 Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:51:58 -0800 /review/show/6170916733 Sarah D is currently reading Where Peace Is Lost by Valerie Valdes
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