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Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so.
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Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
Ursula K. Le Guin

Tor Books
isbn 9781250781260
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finished 05 Dec 2025

Made me think about:

  • The Fifth Season
  • Annihilation (Southern Reach #1)

Stag's Leap
Sharon Olds

Knopf
isbn 9780375712258
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finished 01 Dec 2025

Made me think about:

  • The Year of Magical Thinking

The Man Who Saw Seconds
 Boldizar

Clash Books
isbn 9781960988072
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finished 01 Nov 2025

Usurpation
Sue Burke

Tor Books
isbn 9781250809162
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finished 01 Oct 2025

Interference
Sue Burke

Tor Books
isbn 9781250317810
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finished 22 Sep 2025

Wonderbook
Jeff VanderMeer

Abrams Image
isbn 9781419729669
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finished 20 Sep 2025

Made me think about:

  • Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Semiosis
Sue Burke

Tor
isbn 9780765391360
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finished 14 Sep 2025

Made me think about:

  • Red Mars
  • Speaker for the Dead (Ender’s Saga, #2)
  • Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Liberation Day: Stories
George Saunders

Random House
isbn 9780525509615
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finished 24 Aug 2025

Looking Backward 2000-1887
Edward Bellamy

Oxford University Press
isbn 9780199552573
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finished 18 Aug 2025

Made me think about:

  • Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
  • Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
  • The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells
  • Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France
  • The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Josh Lauer

Columbia University Press
isbn 9780231216630
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finished 16 Jul 2025

Made me think about:

  • Looking Backward 2000-1887
  • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
  • Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life

The Parasol Against the Axe
Helen Oyeyemi

Riverhead Books
isbn 9780593192368
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finished 03 Jul 2025

Made me think about:

  • Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4)
  • The Belly of Paris
  • The Satanic Verses
  • The City We Became
  • Northanger Abbey

Disinformation
Frances Leviston

Picador Poetry
isbn 9781447271147
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finished 31 May 2025

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024
Hugh (ed.) Howey

Mariner Books
isbn 9780063315785
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finished 31 May 2025

Sector-Based Action Against Corruption: A Guide for Organisations and Professionals
Mark Pyman, Paul M. Heywood

Palgrave Macmillan
isbn 9783031593369
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finished 30 May 2025

The Best American Short Stories: 2024
Lauren (ed.) Groff

Mariner Books
isbn 9780063275959
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finished 21 May 2025

The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State
Philip Bowring

Bloomsbury Academic
isbn 9781350427884
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finished 18 May 2025

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 10, Volume 4: Old Demons
Christos Gage, Nicholas Brendon

Dark Horse
isbn 9781616558024
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finished 21 Apr 2025

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 11, Volume 1: The Spread of Their Evil
Joss Whedon

Dark Horse
isbn 9781506702742
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finished 15 Apr 2025

Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
Helen Nissenbaum

Stanford Law Books
isbn 9780804752374
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finished 10 Apr 2025

Made me think about:

  • Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib

Random House
isbn 9781984801203
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finished 05 Apr 2025

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber

Melville House
isbn 9781612195186
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finished 30 Mar 2025

Made me think about:

  • Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America

Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer

MCD
isbn 9780374616595
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finished 20 Feb 2025

2025 total: 22
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