( sf/fantasy quick grab bag )

( The Martian, Rat Queens, Station Eleven, more Loki in Australia, Genevieve Valentine, Ms. Marvel )

This is an amazing(ly depressing) story about global warming. In Men’s Journal. Yeah, I was surprised too!

( G. Willow Wilson, Ilona Andrews )

I like this story on decision fatigue, if for no other reason than that it makes me feel justified in eating the same thing day after day-I’m saving up willpower!-and as a bonus offers a reason to eat when I want to improve my decisionmaking.

( Restrictive covenants, Jenny Holzer, unconscious reactions )

( Wilson, Bazell, Price, Pratchett )

Raising children: 2.0 took two pairs of boxer shorts, mushed them together, and insisted they were a baby. But she also maintained that she was the daddy and that the baby had two daddies, so perhaps I haven’t failed as a parent.

( mortgages, discounting, food, suburban history )

( Fiction: Koontz, Rusch, Brust, Gardner, Sebold, Donaldson, Wilson )

I don't usually recommend fanfic, because I'm usually behind the curve -- if I've seen it and it's SV, anybody who might be interested has probably seen it as well. But Verism, if that's her name, doesn't seem to have an LJ -- correct me if I'm wrong, will you? And Luthor Detail and The 0100 were interesting short stories. The first is basically ( Read more... )

Yeah, not as enticing as "Girls, girls, girls" -- or really, given my assumed audience, "boys, boys, boys." But I have many more books than boys (and I'm not sharing him). Fantasy and science fiction.

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