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[fanfiction] Starship On the Edge of Forever - Star Trek: The Original Series (Kirk/Spock)
Title: Starship On the Edge of Forever
Author: TrenchKamen
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series, with some characters from TNG and DS9, framed in the Timelines story
Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 60K
AO3 / ff.net
Summary: “If I had it to do over…” It is not a productive thought, beyond its ability to make one learn from one’s ( Read more... ) -
[book review] Amatka by Karin Tidbeck
Vanja arrives in Amatka, an isolated, polar commune hovering at the slant-light edge of liminal space, where social control is even tighter than in her native commune and the distant lake spontaneously deep-freezes and thaws every night and morning. Fervent and obsessive solipsism is the only thing keeping physical reality in any recognizable shape ( Read more... ) -
[book review] The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
The old spirits of Rus are strong in Vasilisa’s far-northern village. It is wild there and civilized society, including the Church, have so far only lightly touched it. A syncretic co-existence of Christian and traditional spirituality endured comfortably for generations until Vasya’s new stepmother-a pious and fearful young woman-and a zealous ( Read more... ) -
[book review] Earthseed duology (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents) by Octavia Butler
“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix must first burn.”
So I find myself with a massive backlog of potential book reviews, although I’ve been doing a fair amount of re-reading and many of those are old classics (does the world need another review of The Brothers Karamazov? Or Siddhartha? Ironically Hesse would find the idea appalling as ( Read more... ) -
That was interesting
It's Veteran's Day here in the US, and most UCLA services are closed, but I thought that since *some* facilities are still running, albeit at truncated hours (like the gym), the shuttle might still be running. So I waited at the Wilshire Bruin Bus stop for a while. After a few minutes I asked an elderly couple how long they had been waiting there, ( Read more... ) -
[book review] Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch book 3)
Third book in the Imperial Radch trilogy; reviews of Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword are here. The comments on atmosphere, narration, etc, in those reviews still applies, so this is intended to be read as a continuation of those reviews ( Read more... ) -
July 22 - Hallein (day trip from Salzburg)
Took the train from Salzburg in the morning and found the bus to the salt mine about 5km away in Bad Dürrnberg.
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