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nuclearshill gau/cho 8mo ago (image post) Edited 8mo ago 234 thread views #251832

Weekly “what are you reading” Thread #43

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

!bookworms !classics

I started reading “Los Premios” by Julio Cortázar :marseyargentina: set in the 1950s it's about a bunch of porteños who won tickets to a cruiser ship to somewhere (they have no idea where). First chapter the passengers all meet each other at the London City cafeteria in Buenos Aires (that places still exists, it's located between Av de Mayo and Av Perú, they have a wonderful tea and deserts but are kind of expensive) then they're escorted by the police to the ship at the port, a ship called Malcolm, none of the passengers knows where they're going, the officers refuse to tell them at the first day and I'm getting some White Lotus vibes from the passengers and their companions. I'm also reading “ Tratamento de Água – Concepção, Projeto e Operação de Estações de Tratamento” a textbook on water treatment because of work related stuff.

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MayflyAlt-98 Your/Grace Self-taught hypebeast 8mo ago #6076126

I have resigned myself to reading fantasyslop for a month. This one is kino though :marseyhappy2:

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Gruesy_Spoon check/bio Que sera, sera MayflyAlt-98 8mo ago #6076132

Cool cover

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MayflyAlt-98 Your/Grace Self-taught hypebeast Gruesy_Spoon 8mo ago #6076172

It's cool so far. A Mercenary Lord is betrayed and left for dead so tries to assume a new identity while slowly uncovering a conspiracy. Plus the jousting arc on raptors is cool asf.

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BWC WM/AF :!chadnordic:

MayflyAlt-98 8mo ago #6076198

Victor Woodward Milán (August 3, 1954[1] – February 13, 2018[2]) was an American writer known for libertarian science fiction

libertarian science fiction

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MayflyAlt-98 Your/Grace Self-taught hypebeast BWC 8mo ago #6076224

In 1986 Milán won the Prometheus Award for Cybernetic Samurai.

Deep in the fortress-like headquarters of Yoshimitsu TeleCommunications, American scientist Elizabeth O'Neill had molded the circuitry of a mammoth computer into a living, thinking, feeling being--a human soul trapped in the confines of a cybernetic body.

She named her creation Tokugawa, hero of Japanese samurai lore, and educated him with all of the values of a feudal Japanese shogun.

Yet Tokugawa's powers were far greater than Elizabeth had imagined. WIth access to every computer in post-World War III's fully-automated society, he had the potential to become the ultimate spy, the perfect assassin, an invincible dictator.

Only loyalty to samurai virtues kept his attention in check--until the day when Elizabeth was taken away from him, and Tokugawa began his quest for revenge

Kino.......