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Jules

"Aeluon women didn’t have breasts, but after meeting Pei, Ashby had found that he could do without."

Not even all human women have breasts, dude. And why would aliens have them? And that's up with them all having binary genders aligning with human sexuality?

Boring, and old-fashioned. It's practically a Star Trek level of worldbuilding.

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Jules

"She’s a rashek. There’s not a word for it in Klip. She’s got a disorder that makes it difficult for her to interact with others. She has trouble understanding other people’s intentions. And she speaks oddly, that much was obvious when I first approached her."

They're aliens with different social needs, but I as an autistic person find random strangers "comforting" me as I must be terribly lonely and sad repulsive - from a personal and a disability rights perspective.

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Jules

This book is a lot more interested in food and community than in wormhole construction.

Which is okay, of course, but I'd love to hear more about their work! It's fascinating and skilled in a very interesting way!

I think maybe I need an inverted coffee shop AU of this? A hard sci fi AU?

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Jules

New book: Becky Chambers' "The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet".

Marketed as cosy, found-family sci-fi, which feels like something I need. As it's part one of the "Wayfarers" series, I'll label it thus, because I don't want to have a super long hashtag in there 😅

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Tucker Teague

Which of these four choices is the best #SpaceOpera #book #series? #curious :blobcat: 🚀

If you think there's a better space opera series than one of these, add it to the comments. Add your comments!

Boost this #poll if you can. Thanks!

FYI, I made the poll for 7 days so there's time to share it and because folks keep joining this site every day.

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jordan

Hi, I'm Jordan, and this is my #introduction. I'm a #xennial #nonbinary #Chicago area dad who does #Linux stuff for a living and for a hobby. I've worked lots of places, but the one you've probably heard of is #GitHub. I don't work there anymore. At one point in the past I wrote some articles for #LWN and I still write an occasional tech blog post or two.

Previous iterations of me have been a "gifted child," an #arcade rat, a #BBS kid, a fry cook, a #furry, a library assistant, a #comics nerd, a #goth, an art student, a delivery driver, and a PhD program dropout. Sadly, I am now too old and saddled with responsibility / glorious purpose to be cool with any regularity.

Politically, I would say that I lean pretty far to the left, but mostly I am too tired from parenting and living through a slow-motion apocalypse to think political thoughts much deeper than "please stop killing people and the planet."

I mostly read #scifi and a bit of #fantasy. Recent favorites include the #LockedTomb series by Tamsyn Muir, the #Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers, the #Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, the #ImperialRadch series by Ann Leckie, and the #MachineriesOfEmpire by Yoon Ha Lee. I am a big #Dune nerd and have been known to make a lot of stupid Dune memes. My favorite band of all time is #GWAR and the band I saw most recently was #100gecs.

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