I had to buy a new suit to wear to friend’s wedding because I’ve been [smug pause] working out often enough that my size 40 jacket doesn’t fit anymore. turns out i’m a 42 now.
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extremely bored with our neo-gilded age and the affairs of our aristocrats. nonsense.
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fourteen: Greg Egan again, “Luminous”. It is out of print, but available self published by the author. The stories from just after those in Axiomatic (previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109661276920611083),
gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image first book of the year down, (I think via @leigh@ottawa.place 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.MastodonSome fun stuff, although I would have liked it a lot more had I read it contemporaneously, when I was in my own more annoying atheist phase.
LuminousLUMINOUS collects together one original story plus nine…Goodreads
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threading “Black Water 2” stories w/ the “Black Water” stories
"The Phoenix” by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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zz of unstoppable force
