Dragon Prince season 4

Previously on The Dragon Prince: one, two, three. Three years later I had actually forgotten how little I liked season three? Anyways, things have not improved. Clunky writing, cringy dialogue, giant chunk of exposition we had no reason to care about, bad pacing in general. Behind the cut, some complaining about specifics (really only read this if you want to read complaining).( Read more... )

A Half-Built Garden

A Half-Built Garden, Ruthanna Emrys, 2022 novel. This book was very good and very interesting and I would like everyone to read it, please! I mean, if it is the sort of thing that interests you. First-contact in the late 21st century (2083, which I had a slight moment of shock relating to the present day and what ages of people currently we might expect to still be around then (very plausibly my personal children)). It is very closely in dialogue with Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy and also has some various echoes of Deepness in the Sky and Have Spacesuit Will Travel. (Are you sold yet. Also v. queer. Also v. Jewish. Also I am Hugo-nominating it.)

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