science for tiniers

The duck floats! The rock sinks! The water goes sploosh all over the floor, and mama says funny words, and then we get to soak it up with towels! That was Quentin's favorite part, getting to mop up.

Anyways I have officially embarked upon Science with thing two here. Will be interesting to see how it's different, and how it's the same.

book: Among Others

Confession: I had a hard time giving this book a fair shot, due to lingering hard feelings over it beating Embassytown for the Hugo in 2012. Having read it, now, I can see how it's the sort of thing Hugo voters might go for, although I still think Embassytown is brilliant and Among Others is... fine. I mean, it was good! I liked that it was a book about the aftermath, which is one of my favorite themes in fanfiction, especially about life in the mundane world (the Pevensies after Narnia, Will Stanton as a teen, etc). I liked the slippery nature of the magic. Of course the whole business of a lonely bookish teen wishing for and then finding her people had enormous personal resonance for me. A lot of Among Others is just *about* science fiction, though, whereas Embassytown *is* science fiction; Among Others is not a sensawunda book.

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