#Delani Chambers

[streamondemand]

'Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox' on HBO Max

‘Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox’ on HBO Max

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013), the 17th DC Universe Animated Original Movie, is an alternate reality horror story adapted from the graphic novel “Flashpoint” by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert, where The Flash (voiced by Justin Chambers) changes the past and transforms the present into a world at war. It’s all part of the scheme by his arch-nemesis Professor Zoom (C. Thomas Howell),…

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#2013 #Andy Kubert #Blu-ray #C. Thomas Howell #Cary Elwes #Dana Delany #Danny Huston #DCU Original Animation #DVD #Geoff Johns #HBO Max #Jay Oliva #Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox #Justin Chambers #Kevin McKidd #Michael B. Jordan #Vanessa Marshall #VOD

[librarycards]

3, 12, 28, 33 🫶✨🌻 (and if you don't watch many films, change films to books for number 3! 😘)

3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

thanks to @gwenderqueer i have watched significantly more films than i ever thought i would (my letterboxd, which is less exciting than my goodreads fwiw). since you mentioned both, i'm going to do 3 books and three films!

films:

Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

Blade Runner (1982) [my emotional support problematic movie]

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

books (focusing on novels here):

Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (and the whole Wayfarers series!)

Samuel R Delany, Dhalgren

what’s some good advice you want to share?

i mentioned this last night when talking about opacity and academic knowledge, but will repeat here bc it's important - not knowing, feeling intimidated, feeling challenged, is the first stage of learning; friction is often necessary for generative learning experiences.

do you collect anything?

answered! i collect small press/limited release/indie books and stickers / stationery for sending and using in my journals, etc :)

any hobbies?

besides the reading/writing stuff ofc, I also love hiking and going for runs/jogs pretty regularly; i'm also into sending snail mail/cards!

#ty! :) #ask #petesdragon #book rec

[nem0c]

His voice dropped. “Within seventy-two hours, my friend, if we still know each other, I am going to take you by force, chain you in a special chamber I have already equipped for the purpose, and do some very painful things to your body that will possibly - the chances are four out of five - result in your death, and certainly in your permanent disfigurement, mental and physical.”...

...“You’ve informed me of the nature of your desire for me. It is only fair, I feel, to inform you of the nature of mine towards you. You are, of course, free to absent yourself from my company.”...

...“Though my sexuality is not part of my psychosis, they have been integrated carefully by some very clever people.” She moved one and another finger (and from then on, ‘she’ was the only way I could think of her) against my carotid. “As of now, the distinction between work and pleasure is one I do not make.” “Oh,” I said.

Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

#samuel delany #stars in my pocket like grains of sand

[dragongirl-brev]

"Exciting, isn't it?"

Clym's hand suddenly came forward to touch my neck. His voice dropped.

"Within seventy-two hours, my friend, if we still know each other, I am going to take you by force, chain you in a special chamber I have already equipped for the purpose, and do some very painful things to your body that will possibly - the chances are four out of five - result in your death, and certainly in your permanent disfigurement, mental and physical."

(We live in a medically sophisticated age. You have to work very hard to permanently disfigure any body.)

"I've done some checking on you and found you are a strange human being - at least to me: your sexual predilections run toward only one gender and only of a few species. You make distinctions between pleasure and pain that are baffling to me yet highly interesting to contemplate violating."

Many of you think like this.

(Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany, p. 90)

#book reccs

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

Rating: PG-13

Director: Jay Oliva

Cast: Justin Chambers, C. Thomas Howell, Michael B. Jordan, Kevin McKidd, Kevin Conroy, Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Blum, Sam Daly, Dana Delany, Grey DeLisle, Cary Elwes, Michael Beach, Nathan Fillion, Jennifer Hale, Danny Huston, Danny Jacobs, Peter Jessop, Vanessa Marshall, Candi Milo, Ron Perlman, Kevin Michael Richardson, Andrea Romano, James Patrick Stuart, Hynden Walch

Release year: 2013

Genres: science fiction, action, adventure

Blurb: The Flash finds himself in a war-torn alternate timeline and teams up with alternate versions of his fellow heroes to restore the timeline.

#justice league the flashpoint paradox #pg13 #jay oliva #justin chambers #c thomas howell #michael b jordan #kevin mckidd #kevin conroy #2013 #science fiction #action #adventure

[ruleof3bobby]

JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE FLASHPOINT PARADOX (2013) Grade: B

Fun animation for adults. The plot is cool with some great twists & action. 

#Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox #2013 #B #Cartoon #Animation Films #Batman #DC Comics #Based on a Comic Book #Jay Oliva #Justin Chambers #C. Thomas Howell #Michael B. Jordan #Kevin McKidd #Dee Bradley Baker #Steve Blum #Kevin Conroy #Sam Daly #Dana Delany #Grey Griffin #Nathan Fillion #Jennifer Hale #Lex Lang

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#justice league #justiceleagueedit #justice league: the flashpoint paradox #justin chambers #c thomas howell #kevin conroy #kevin mckidd #michael b jordan #dee bradley baker #steven blum #sam daly #dana delany #cary elwes #nathan fillion #capped by randomkiwibirds

[scenesandscreens]

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)

Director - Jay Oliva, Film Editing - Christopher D. Lozinski

“…when I was a little girl, Grandma taught me a prayer: Accept the things you cannot change. Have the courage to change the things you can… and have the wisdom to know the difference.”

#justice league: the flashpoint paradox #scenesandscreens #justice league #the flash #cyborg #batman #aquaman #wonder woman #lois lane #yo yo #kevin conroy #justin chambers #michael b jordan #kevin mckidd #c. thomas howell #dana delany #vanessa marshall

[bookclub4m]

Episode 124 - Media (and Noodles) We’ve Recently Enjoyed

This episode we’re discussing Media (and Noodles) We’ve Recently Enjoyed! We talk about spicy noodles, which Dakota is our least favourite state, fictional planets that totally suck, tenuous connections, flexing over signed books, vaccine envy, podcast synergy, and why you should mail us an envelope filled with five dollar bills! Plus: We reveal how deeply uncool we really are!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mentioned

Matthew

Hitman 3 Dubai!: 3 Ways to Play (just one of many videos)

Hitman Elusive Target 14 The Chef: MIKE'S FINEST HOUR - Let's Play Hitman (featuring the explosive rubber duck)

Hitman 3 THE MOST ELUSIVE TARGET YET: 3 Ways to Play Hitman 3 Elusive Target The Collector (this one came out the same day as this episode of the podcast!)

Hitman (franchise) (Wikipedia)

Nicola Traveling Around the Demons' World, vol. 1 by Asaya Miyanaga

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

DefunctTV: The History of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

MAGFest 2019: True Weird Stories from Video Game History

Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego? (Wikipedia)

Mais où se Cache Carmen Sandiego ? (French theme song)

À la poursuite de Carmen Sandiego (French theme song for Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?)

Finish It! Podcast

Ep. 153. The Dragon’s Den: Week One Enter The Inkeeper

RJ

Later Alligator

Launch Trailer

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Mice and Murder

Game Changer

Breaking News

Gumshoe

Wanderhome

Anna

Natural Causes by James Oswald

Lucky Me (noodles) (Wikipedia)

“Pancit canton – Filipino adaptation of lo mein and chow mein. Either in instant or stir-fried versions” (Wikipedia)

‘Pag No Drain, No Pain with Lucky Me! Pancit Canton (commercial)

Lucky Me! Pancit Canton "Happy Merienda" (commercial)

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

(Wikipedia)

Colors

Sofi Tukker - Drinkee

Mahalia - Sober

H.E.R - Carried Away

triple j - Like a Version 2021

The Wiggles cover Tame Impala 'Elephant' for Like A Version

Chvrches cover Kendrick Lamar ‘LOVE’

Gang of Youths cover The Middle East 'Blood' 

Hermitude cover Nirvana 'Heart-Shaped Box'

Tash Sultana covers MGMT 'Electric Feel'

essaying by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends by Caitlin Dewey

Meghan

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Maintenance Phase

Episode about Olestra

You're Wrong About… by Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall

Your Fat Friend by Aubrey Gordon

case/lang/veirs - Full Performance | opbmusic Live Sessions

Links, Articles, and Things

Hark! Podcast - Episode 283: O Christmas Weed

Baman Piderman - Find Da Sandwich (Ep #1)

Neil Cicierega (Wikipedia)

Episode 114 - Hot Cocoa & Book Recommendations

The episode in which RJ recommended To Be Taught, If Fortunate

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

meatsuit maintenance (Twitter)

Episode 116 - Best Books We Read in 2020

The episode in which RJ recommended Game Changer

Tommy the Turtle (the world’s largest snowmobiling turtle)

Tame Impala (Wikipedia)

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Wikipedia)

15 Space Opera Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

The Moons of Palmares by Zainab Amadahy

The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

Nova by Samuel R. Delany

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna

Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes

The Black Ship by Gerry William

Red Dust by Yoss

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Then on Tuesday, May 18th, we’ll be talking about Books We Did Not Finish!

#episodes #noodles

[starstuffandalotofcoffee]

You mentioned earlier that you'd be willing to give book recs? If you still are, what would you recommend for fantasy/sci-fi not about straight white guys? Got a lot of recs for those already.

while I take umbrage with your url, I have many recommendations! In fact, most of the sci fi and fantasy books I have read as of late feature nonwhite and/or LGBT characters and many are not written by straight white guys either, which tends to help. Here’s an incomplete list thereof. Other people looking for recs, this is a pretty broad list ranging from fairly classic fantasy to modern urban fantasy to a couple different forms of sci fi, so you can probably start here.

Currently I’m reading the Foundryside series by Robert Jackson Bennet (I read book 1, I’m mostly through book 2, I don’t think book 3 is out yet) which is best described as cyberpunk, but in an otherwise low-tech fantasy world. The plot and themes are great, the characters are great, the exposition in the first book is a bit heavy-handed like dude we get it you program but the second book is much tighter. Most of the characters are described as being nonwhite, and the main character of the first book (who’s still a major character in the second; it’s just more of an ensemble) is a wlw. Note: I  think these are the only books on this list written by a white guy, so again, look for women and LGBT and nonwhite authors and often they will make characters who are like them.

N. K. Jemisin is a good author not only to read but to follow in that as one of if not the most prominent black sci fi/fantasy authors she makes recommendations of other authors and pushes for recognition (basically, her point is that she did not come in to take Octavia Butler’s seat and you can have more than one black woman writing sci fi). The City We Became is based on a phenomenal short story that she wrote, about the city of New York coming to life through various human avatars; almost all are nonwhite and several are gay, bi, or lesbian (there’s a minor supporting trans character who I hope gets a larger role in the next of the series but the first book just came out). The Broken Earth trilogy is maybe one of my favorite series I’ve read in the last few years; most of the characters are black and a decent number are LGBT.

Speaking of Octavia Butler, most of her characters are black and she’s also just a modern classic sci fi writer for a reason. I’ve only really read short stories (the Bloodchild collection), the Patternist series, and Kindred. She does dip into horror themes at times and I respect if people aren’t into that, but she was a brilliant author. Most of her characters are black and The Patternist series includes shapeshifter characters who have romances with people of various genders.

I was frustrated by the pacing in The Priory of the Orange Tree, but not the characters. The worldbuilding could also stand to be a little better in that it’s clearly like, Europe and Asia of our world circa 1600-ish but with different names for things and also some magic. Plenty of nonwhite characters, some lesbian romance. (Author is Samantha Shannon).

You have probably seen stuff for Gideon The Ninth on Tumblr and for good reason; it’s very good. The tagline on Tumblr is often Lesbian Space Necromancers which is true but also it’s just incredibly funny and dark and well-written. (Author is Tamsyn Muir).

You may have also seen things for the Shades of Magic series on Tumblr; it’s a really cool conceit, one of the two main characters is a woman, and there is significant gay romance among the supporting characters. It’s got epic battle vs. evil for the soul of the universe stuff as well as interdimensional portals but also pirates and the elemental magic olympics, somehow. I do feel sort of ambivalent about the author saying one character is likely genderfluid but doesn’t know that it’s an option because on the one hand I do not like the author saying things and it counting as representation, but on the other said character comes from early 1800s London and this would not be an unreasonable way for them to feel. (Author is V. E. Schwab)

The Raven Tower is super interesting and I only read it because my mother had it out of the library when I was home for Thanksgiving and she said ‘here you might like this’. It’s sort of a retelling of Hamlet, it’s got weird deity lore (which I happen to love in fantasy), and the main character is trans. (Author is Ann Leckie).

A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is sci fi and while there are challenges and real plot involved it’s just like...kind of a fun adventure book? I just remember finding it fun, despite the seriousness of elements of the plot, and I say this as someone who often does like a good epic good vs. evil plot but it’s kind of nice to read a book where the hardships are like, needing to fuel your spaceship in a weird place. Some of the human characters are nonwhite (I’m of the opinion that aliens don’t really count as representation), and several characters are not straight. (Author is Becky Chambers).

The Golem and the Jinni is about the early 1900s immigrant experience in lower Manhattan, but through the eyes of a golem woman living in the Jewish community and a jinni in the Syrian community who become friends due to being displaced magical beings. (Author is Helene Wecker).

Alif The Unseen is by G. Willow Wilson of Ms. Marvel fame and is a technological fantasy novel that takes place in an unspecified Middle Eastern country in roughly the modern day. It came out in 2012 and was clearly (and thoughtfully) influenced by the Arab Spring of 2011; most characters are Middle-Eastern or South Asian Muslims.

Finally on this list, though not of the many books one could read, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is by Samuel R. Delany, a gay black man, and while it’s been a couple years since I read it it was so brilliantly written and different than a lot of space sci fi that I’ve read and it hit me in such a way that I keep meaning to reread it. The main characters are also black gay men.

#sci fi #fantasy #book recommendations #paladins-are-dumb

[featherquillpen]

Canon Polyamory Recs

For this month’s Polyshipping Day, I thought I might rec some canons that have canon polyships. I don’t just mean strong subtext, or things that could be interpreted as poly, but actual explicit nonmonogamous relationships. I love non-canon polyships as much as the next person but I thought some folks might like to try out some canon ones!

The Magicians on SyFy

This has the best polyamory rep I’ve seen on television, period. The Magicians is a show about students at magic grad school. It started out with minor characters, showing us one student’s parents in a triad relationship with another magician. Then it brought polyamory into the foreground with a main character, Eliot, who is a king in an alternate reality where it is custom for royals to have both a husband and a wife. The show’s exploration of Eliot’s complicated emotional life is an absolute delight to watch.

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

This is one of the best fantasy book series of all time, in my opinion. It’s an epic set in a secondary world where a brutally oppressed class of geomancers are the only buffer against a tectonically active planet hostile to life. One of these geomancers, Syenite, and her friend and mentor Alabaster, enter into a long-term V relationship with a charming pirate named Innon (who is the hinge of the V.) I love the books’ loving, tender depiction of the metamour relationship between Syenite and Alabaster, who are so important to each other, and united by their love for the same man.

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Rosemary, a human woman from Mars, and Sissix, a female lizard alien called an Aandrisk, end up in a committed open relationship by the end of the book. Aandrisks as a species are non-monogamous by default, and an important part of their relationship is Rosemary accepting that Sissix does not love her any less because she goes off to join Aandrisk orgies sometimes. Their romance is very sweet.

The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Vorkosigan Saga is an epic space opera centered on Barrayar, a planet that was cut off from the galaxy and regressed technologically, and was recently reintegrated into the galactic fold. It begins with a dramatic romance between Aral, a Barrayaran, and Cordelia, who basically comes from Space California. In the latest installment of the series, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, we learn that Aral and Cordelia were secretly in a committed V relationship (with Aral as the hinge) with Oliver Jole, Aral’s secretary. I liked how this newest book explores the metamour relationship between Cordelia and Oliver.

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany

This book is centered around an epic romance between two men from different planets and radically different backgrounds. Korga is an ex-slave who went through hell to get where he is in life, while Marq is wealthy, respectable, and surrounded by a family that loves him. They end up in a committed open relationship. There is a scene where they go to a public bathhouse together and fuck a dragon. I don’t know what else you want from a book, honestly.

The Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells

These books explore a culture of dragon-people who live in colonies much like social insects. The worldbuilding is very interesting. In this culture, polyamory is normalized, and the main character is in a committed relationship with the queen of his dragon-hive, and later on a lower-ranked man of his hive as well.

The Red Threads of Fortune by J.Y. Yang

Set in a fantastical historical China, this book is centered on Sanao Mokoya, a magician on the run from her mother’s tyrannical regime. She is in an open marriage with a monk named Thennjay, and over the course of the book she falls in love with a mysterious naga-rider, who goes only by Rider, who she isn’t sure she can trust. Mokoya and Thennjay have a difficult marriage, but for reasons that have nothing to do with Mokoya’s lover. This book and its companion novel The Black Tides of Heaven are great new releases.

Edits: 21 June 2019

First of all, I want to rescind or at the very least qualify my rec of The Magicians; after I made this post, the show got deep into some toxic Bury Your Gays bullshit, and I can’t in good conscience fully recommend it anymore.

I also want to add some new recs.

Sense8 on Netflix

Definitely now the best polyamorous rep on television. It has not one, but two, canon polyamorous triads. Both of them are extremely sweet and good. 

Friends at the Table: Seasons of Hieron (podcast)

Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast where each season they tell a beautiful story by playing indie tabletop RPGs. One of their story arcs, Seasons of Hieron (consisting of Autumn in Hieron, Marielda, Winter in Hieron, and Spring in Hieron) now has an absolutely beautiful slow burn polyamorous V relationship between three women. 

Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton

A new YA fantasy book, set in a fairytale village on the edge of a deep, dark, terrifying forest, to which they regularly sacrifice boys to maintain their prosperity and harmony with the land. The daughter of the village witch gets into a polyamorous triad with two boys as they discover the forest’s dark secrets.

The Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee

I should be upfront that much of the polyamory in this series is not remotely happy or healthy, but deeply twisted, including incest and dubious consent. But whether it’s the two bloodthirsty gay immortals who share beautiful helpless young men over the centuries, or the boss general lady who just loves her wives a lot, polyamory is ubiquitous and deeply normalized in the fictional space fantasy society of the Machineries of Empire series. 

#polyshipping day #book recs

[madamlaydebug]

We exist because of our Elders. The new Kushite-Kemetic spiritual science movement that is spreading rapidly due to social media isn't something I or my peers are creating; it is something we are building on. It was established by elders before us, such as Baaba Heru Ankh Ra Semahj Se Ptah, Elder Priest of the Shrine of Ma'at in Harlem and founder of the Studio of Ptah in Manhattan.

The Grandfather of the Kushite-Kemetic Renaissance is Martin R. Delany, who first proposed it be our cultural foundation as a race in the 1870s. This was fulfilled by Cheikh Anta Diop in the 1950s. Following Diop's popularization, a foray of spiritual (and not just historically focused) Kushite-Kemetic movements developed by the 1960s.

One of the first leaders was Caribbean born Baaba Heru Ankh Ra Semahj. He used his position as a New York City police officer since 1964 to educate Afrakan people hanging out in the street on their Kushite-Kemetic divinity within. He was one of the first Afrakans in the USA who was talking about spiritual revolution from Christian enslavement but was not basing the revolution on the Arab enslaver's Islam. He would walk around with an ankh attached to his gun. Thru the divine protection of Amen-Ra for having practiced Ma'at, Baaba Heru never had to shoot a single Afrakan in over twenty-one years as a police officer in New York City, the mecca of killer-cops.

In 1967 he opened the Sphinx Shop, one of the first centers for Afrakan artifacts and Afrakan clothing in the USA. Students from throughout the Northeast came to sit at Baaba Heru's feet, establishing him as a cultural pillar of the community.

Baaba Heru uses his gift as a metal sculptor to create living artifacts as amulets for people to wear and use in the Kushite-Kemetic community. He founded the Studio of Ptah to conduct such essential works, for we cannot claim to be Kushite-Kemetic if we don't continue the historical practice of living Kushite-Kemetic culture which includes using their emblems, especially in terms of "jewelry" or what he coined as joy-ari. From legendary scholars like Dr. Ben, John Henrik Clarke, and Ivan Van Sertima to celebrity musicians like Sun Ra and Erykah Badu, he has made many living ancestral metal amulets for people to wear.

As it is that Ptah is the patron deity of engineers and visual artists, Baaba Heru Ankh Ra Semahj was given the adage "Se Ptah." He was initiated in the very chamber of Khufu in the Great Mer-Khuti (Pyramid) of Giza. He was enstooled as the Chief Elder of the Shrine of Ma'at in Harlem and remains one of the most respected elders of the Kushite-Kemetic Renaissance in the world.

[librarycards]

this is a cool idea ! my top 5 fav: the fifth season by n.k. jemisin, our wives under the sea by julia armfield, the lies of locke lamora by scott lynch, hyperion by dan simmons, & fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe by fannie flagg

i've been meaning to read fried green tomatoes forever, it's on my shelf and i'm looking at it rn haha

recs:

Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi

Babel-17, Samuel R Delany

Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Bonus: YA edition! Huntress, Malinda Lo

#ty! #ask #muldersjpg #book rec

[nem0c]

‘So you see—’ the earl stepped from the counter—‘your astrolabe, as a sign in a system of signs—’ Behind Pryn, Ardra said: ‘It’s a map of a non-existent coast under an imaginary constellation on an impossible sky in—’ he grunted, twisting something—‘the middle of a ring of meaningless numbers. That’s why it’s powerful. That’s why it’s magic.’ ‘Now I hope you see,’ the earl said, ‘what your astrolabe is not: It is not a tool to perform a job; it is not a key to open a lock; it is not a map to guide you to the treasure; it is not a coded message to be deciphered; it is not a container of secret meanings that can be opened and revealed by some other, different tool, different key, different code, different map. It’s an artfully constructed part of an artfully constructed engine that, by the maneuvering of meanings, holds open a space from which certain meanings are forever excluded, are always absent. That alone is what allows it to function—to work, if you insist on the language of the brewery—in the greater system.’ ‘Like a great castle with no lord in it,’ Lavik said. ‘Or a monastery from which the powerful priests have all gone,’ said Jenta. ‘Or the Liberator’s headquarters—’ Pryn looked about the chamber—‘in Neveryóna.’ The earl frowned.

Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities

#samuel delany #neveryona

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Book Meme taken from my Dreamwidth Reading page: 100 books recommended for 2019

Snagged from davidgillon, which he snagged from legionseagle who got the list from this blog post over at Tor.com: 100 SF/F books you should consider reading in the New Year.

So, going by this list, it looks like I'm not very well-read at all. Though what this list really shows me is that I haven't read much of any SF/F published after 1980 -- I think that's because my main access to the genre was through school libraries and public libraries, which tend to have more older books on their shelves than book stores. Some of these book titles (and their summaries on Wikipedia, when I look them up) ring very faint, foggy, bells. I very well could have read them, but I'm not confident enough to actually “bold” them.... Particularly Up the Walls of the World -- if I didn’t read that book, I read one that was influenced by it... I'm glad Patricia McKillip is on this list.  Although I read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, the book of hers that kept me up all night until I finished it was The Changeling Sea ... I had such a fiction-crush on that wizard (*blush*). And although it is not SF/F, I also really liked The Night Gift, though I acknowledge it's not a "Significant piece of Literature" of the sort that gets on lists like this (the pop culture references, put in to ground it firmly in the present, real, world, end up making it terribly dated), but it's a bittersweet exploration of how mental illness affects a close-knit group of teenage friends, and how they band together to try and help the one who's suffering. Anyway, all that means is that I have a whole lot of good first time reading to look forward to.

Bold = read it. Italics = not that one, but another by the same author. Strikethrough = did not finish.

The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison (2014) The Stolen Lake, by Joan Aiken (1981) Fullmetal Alchemist, by Hiromu Arakawa (2001-2010) Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō, by Hitoshi Ashinano (1994-2006) The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood (1985) Stinz: Charger: The War Stories, by Donna Barr (1987) The Sword and the Satchel, by Elizabeth Boyer (1980) Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue, by Rosel George Brown (1968) The Mountains of Mourning, by Lois McMaster Bujold (1989) War for the Oaks, by Emma Bull (1987) Wild Seed, by Octavia E. Butler (1980) Naamah’s Curse, by Jacqueline Carey (2010) The Fortunate Fall, by Raphael Carter (1996) The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers (2015) Red Moon and Black Mountain, by Joy Chant (1970) The Vampire Tapestry, by Suzy McKee Charnas (1980) Gate of Ivrel, by C.J. Cherryh (1976) Sorcerer to the Crown, by Zen Cho (2015) Diadem from the Stars, by Jo Clayton (1977) The Dark is Rising. by Susan Cooper (1973) Genpei, by Kara Dalkey (2000) Servant of the Underworld, by Aliette de Bodard (2010) The Secret Country, by Pamela Dean (1985) Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany (1975) The Door into Fire, by Diane Duane (1979) On the Edge of Gone, by Corinne Duyvis (2016) Spirit Gate, by Kate Elliott (2006) Enchantress From the Stars, by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (1970) Golden Witchbreed, by Mary Gentle (1983) The Dazzle of Day, by Molly Gloss (1997) A Mask for the General, by Lisa Goldstein (1987) Slow River, by Nicola Griffith (1995) Those Who Hunt the Night, by Barbara Hambly (1988) Winterlong, by Elizabeth Hand (1990) Ingathering, by Zenna Henderson (1995) The Interior Life, by Dorothy Heydt (writing as Katherine Blake, 1990) God Stalk, by P. C. Hodgell (1982) Brown Girl in the Ring, by Nalo Hopkinson (1998) Zero Sum Game, by S.L. Huang (2014) Blood Price by Tanya Huff (1991) The Keeper of the Isis Light, by Monica Hughes (1980) God’s War, by Kameron Hurley (2011) Memory of Water, by Emmi Itäranta (2014) The Fifth Season, by N. K. Jemisin (2015) Cart and Cwidder, by Diane Wynne Jones (1975) Daughter of Mystery, by Heather Rose Jones (2014) Hellspark, by Janet Kagan (1988) A Voice Out of Ramah, by Lee Killough (1979) St Ailbe’s Hall, by Naomi Kritzer (2004) Deryni Rising, by Katherine Kurtz (1970) Swordspoint, by Ellen Kushner (1987) A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle (1962) Magic or Madness, by Justine Larbalestier (2005) The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974) Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie (2013) Biting the Sun, by Tanith Lee (Also titled Drinking Sapphire Wine, 1979) Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee (2016) Wizard of the Pigeons, by Megan Lindholm (1986) Adaptation, by Malinda Lo (2012) Watchtower, by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1979) Tea with the Black Dragon, by R. A. MacAvoy (1983) The Outback Stars, by Sandra McDonald (2007) China Mountain Zhang, by Maureen McHugh (1992) Dreamsnake, by Vonda N. McIntyre (1978)   The Riddle-Master of Hed, by Patricia A. McKillip (1976) Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees (1926) Pennterra, by Judith Moffett (1987) The ArchAndroid, by Janelle Monáe (2010) Jirel of Joiry, by C. L. Moore (1969) Certain Dark Things, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2016) The City, Not Long After, by Pat Murphy (1989) Vast, by Linda Nagata (1998) Galactic Derelict, by Andre Norton (1959) His Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik (2006) Dragon Sword and Wind Child, by Noriko Ogiwara (1993) Outlaw School, by Rebecca Ore (2000) Lagoon, by Nnedi Okorafor (2014) Alanna: The First Adventure, by Tamora Pierce (1983) Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy (1976) Godmother Night, by Rachel Pollack (1996) Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (1859) My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland (2011) The Female Man, by Joanna Russ (1975) Stay Crazy, by Erika L. Satifka (2016) The Healer’s War, by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (1988) Five-Twelfths of Heaven, by Melissa Scott (1985) Everfair, by Nisi Shawl (2016) Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (1818) A Door Into Ocean, by Joan Slonczewski (1986) The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart (1970) Up the Walls of the World, by James Tiptree, Jr. (1978) The Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner (1996) The Snow Queen, by Joan D. Vinge (1980) All Systems Red, by Martha Wells (2017) The Well-Favored Man, by Elizabeth Willey (1993) Banner of Souls, by Liz Williams (2004) Alif the Unseen, by G. Willow Wilson (2012) Ariosto, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1980) Ooku, by Fumi Yoshinaga (2005-present)

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Skin Color Affects The Rate Of Weight Loss

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