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  1. third book, “The Stories of your Life and others”, Ted Chiang.

    Cheating because I read the first half last year. I got another copy after leaving my first copy on a plane ( https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109372422129728908).

    I hope whoever found my first copy enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed my second copy.

    “let’s take one idea seriously and see what happens”

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223380.Stories_of_Your_Life_and_Others

    the current paperback cover of "Stories of your Life and others" by Ted Chiang. The title and author's name encircle the hands of a clock at about 11:10:30, over field of stars on the top half and cloudy sky on the bottom half. Inset in the top left is a cloud circle that proclaims that this book "Includes 'Story of Your Life," the Basis for the Major Motion Picture ARRIVAL.

  2. ok, what the letters spells out is p easy to find on tvtropes[.]org which I’m told is a terrible website that’ll rot your brain and your ability to perceive art as anything but strings of gimmicks (they probably have a name for people like me who believe this), so I guess if you look for it the right way, like I did, the answer is in the google preview (remember when things were like that?) and you don’t have to click through.

    but I’m also not gonna say what it is either, just read the book.

  3. second book down, the new Jason Pargin (f. k. a. David Wong), “If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe.” It was fun! I lol’d a few times, didn’t want to put it down, etc.

    Jason put a tiny house of leaves gimmick in it (it’s full of metafiction shit tbh) but I only noticed it was happening for the last word so if you read it, let me know what it says (I’m going to go cheat and google it right now).

    The cover of John Dies at the End #4"If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe", file under Jason Pargin / David Wong. The cover is a an illustration of a black hardback of the book with the title in silver on the spine and cover, made of arby's sauce dripping, and one of the drips forms a skull below, all over a solid, flat light green.

  4. first book of the year down, (I think via @leigh somewhere?): “Axiomatic,” a collection of Greg Egan’s short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov’s) between 1989 and 1992.

    Great late 80s hard SF shorts

    I don’t do star reviews, but, folks, they’re good stories

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156783.Axiomatic

    aside: a characters is mentioned to have received their advanced degree in 2023, which I’m sure felt reasonably far out at the time.

    the current paperback trade cover of Greg Egan's Axiomatic, a repeating tile mosaic in blues and greens, which he designed himself

  5. it’s bowie’s birthday ◻️

    a credenza containing a record player, spectrum analyzer, and receiver, next to a shelf of records, Bowie's "The Next Day" playing, album propped uppropped up against the wall on the next to a prayer plant

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