This week I read August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White. It took me a moment to get into but then became a gloriously queer space romp, with amazing world-building creating their future, and a delightfully diverse range of characters. I found some of it hard to visualise, but I think that’s more on my brain than the text.

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So I finished #AugustKitkoAndTheMechasFromSpace. Enjoyed it overall. Anyway, I could feel the reference, Evangeleon, Gurren Lagaan, DBZ...probably should watch Darling and the Franxx.

Interesting mix of heavy, (if casual,) queerness; identity, agency, and principle. The pull of tenacity against hopelessness. And the worthiness of humanity.

I do wish it had a soundtrack, with all the principal humans being musicians.

Worth a read.

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More on the book I'm reading. Even the giant alien inorganic lifeform has opinions on pronouns. "Greymalkin doesn't like being called a robot."

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Reading about how Barnes and Nobel's reduction in hardcover diversity will negatively affect new author discovery, I just saw this book on the shelf at the library. That's fine here, but it'll definitely negatively affect newer authors.

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