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Atul Gawande Saves the Day with Common Sense: A Links Round-Up

Welp, the end of another week is upon us. Is the weekend a punishment or a reward, or neither? What distinguishes our days, if we can’t even go to the goddamn library? (Oh my God I miss the library.) (I don’t want the library to reopen until it can do so in a way that’s safe for library workers; I just miss it.) I have a plan to mark the passage of time by making a new batch of frozen breakfast burritos. This seems fine, but do you remember the time Before when a person could go out to a…

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Review: Critical Point, S. L. Huang

Critical Point is the third in a series. You should read the series! My reviews of the first two books in it can be found here and here. Should someone make a Cas Russell TV series, y/y? Critical Point is the third book in the series and all I can think, besides “this is so fucking fun,” is “this would make a great CW procedural.” (Relatedly, I have started watching a very stupid CW procedural, Lucifer, which is very stupid. I have chosen not to fact-check whether it actually airs on the CW because of how indisputably it is in…

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Null Set, S. L. Huang

WHAT a fantastic follow-up to the first Cas Russell book, Zero Sum Game, which was one of my favorites of 2018. Two things I adore in fiction are aftermaths and superheroes being stripped of their superpowers, and Null Set (kinda) has both. Cas and her friends are dealing with the fallout from their takedown of Pithica in Zero Sum Game, and trying to cope with the uptick in crime that Los Angeles is seeing as a result. Rio is God knows where; Arthur and Checker and Cas are chasing down child trafficking rings, while Cas grows more and more frustrated…

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Review: The Vela, Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, and SL Huang

OOF. Tear my heart into tiny pieces, why don’t you, The Vela writing team? If you haven’t yet heard about Serial Box, my friends, you are missing a trick. They do serialized fiction — mostly SFF — with some of the most incredible writers working today. The Vela (out tomorrow!) brings together some of my truest new faves from the past few years: Yoon Ha Lee, who wrote Ninefox Gambit; Becky Chambers, who wrote The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet; Rivers Solomon, who wrote An Unkindness of Ghosts; and SL Huang, who wrote Zero Sum Game. Of course,…

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The Best of 2018

Well, 2018 is finally over, my friends. I saw a Twitter poll that was like “how equipped are you to handle 2019 as compared to 2018” and I legitimately did not know how to answer it. At this exact moment, coming off a vacation in which I gave and received many presents, possessed of a majestic goals board and a brand new planner, I am feeling very equipped to deal with 2019. However, let it not be forgotten that I felt this same way in January 2018, whereupon I was promptly hit by a car and broke my neck. I…

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Review: Zero Sum Game, S. L. Huang

What purer pleasure in the month of December than finding a new book that you can’t stop reading? I love S. L. Huang’s short fiction, and was thrilled that her formerly self-published Zero Sum Game got a reissue with Tor this year. It absolutely lived up to my internally generated hype. Cas Russell is a math genius such that she can calculate the bolt depth and wall strength of bars on windows in an instant, and apply leverage in exactly the right spot to pry them off. She’s a math genius such that she can dodge bullets by predicting their…

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