John Scalzi just announced that there's an asteroid named after him! How delightful! (His fiction is completely hit or miss for me, but tagged was funny)
Here is his post about it! https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/12/a-minor-planet-a-major-thrill/
so-soThere were some really interesting world building aspects of this novella that would have been better served in a novel-length work. A lot of page time is spent in backstory for each character, so the plot itself felt a bit thin. It was still an enjoyable read, but maybe my expectations were set too high.
panI really should have stopped reading this when Manny kept snapping his fingers at Wyoming as a way of cat calling.
For reasons I don‘t fully understand, I finished this. And I hated it, in all its misogynist, libertarian, all talk almost no action glory.
And it won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1967?!
Wolfe returns to the story-telling contest structure (a la The Decameron/Canterbury Tales) that he has employed elsewhere for the early part of this second novel of the Book of the Short Sun.
My mom told me about this short story after watching a "documentary" video about the movie Idiocracy. Are there any other fans of the movie on here??
so-soThis was a little too much “dude bro“ for my tastes and the second half dragged on. There was definitely some humor but Kevin R. Free's narration was flawless and the only thing that kept me going.
pickThis book enlightens in a comprehensive and practical manner… we know we are not the only beings in the universe, so what if… what a way to hope for a better future and devise a better system. Loved Samantha, Adam, Athena, and Hamish all of the characters provided a different perspective and I wish this could be a series… great read … this begins me “Malazan bingo read for this year” one down📖
Some of these epigraphs just crack me up or present significant thought into the question “what if”
pickWhile “Automatic Noodle” is short in length, it is long in wisdom and a sense of fun.
Found my Ender's Game copy from Booksale, SM Manila last Sept 2020 during pandemic and finally read it as my Forgotten Find for our @tbrgirlies_bookclub Jan TOTM.
