Ausgelesen. Eindeutig ein Buch für Freund*innen kleiner Schnipsel und Momente, die entlang der fetten Plots passieren. Die neuronalen Verbindungen kriegen da richtig schön was zum Britzeln und Fitzeln und Träumen.

Es bleibt ein großes "Häh?" zurück, aber eins das wohltut.

Und seltsame, lebendige Nachbilder. 🖤

#LavieTidhar #Neom

"Somewhere between Bethlehem and Mecca lay Neom, city of futurity, where fortunes are made and faiths are lost."
#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 180)

Musings of a giant mecha

"'Maybe we are all going to be reborn now', Esau said happily. 'I often thought of becoming something humble, like a toaster on Mars. It must be so joyful, making toast that people find a joy in eating. Good friends of mine went to Mars, you know.'"
#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 173)

"'Jackals not ... soldiers,' the jackal said with disgust. 'We deserters.'

'You didn't want to fight?' Saleh said.

'They make us speak,' Anubis said. 'We say, screw you.' Its tongue lolled. The other jackals howled laughter."

#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 31/32)

"We were excavating in Dahab [...] It used to be a robotnik nest during the second, no, maybe the third war. You must have seen the satellite pictures of Dahab, right? It had a terrorartist attack in the fourth war and the whole place is suspended in a sort of still-ongoing explosion, but if you wear a null suit you can navigate through the temporality maze - anyway. We were digging. Dahab's full of valuable old stuff, it's just hard to get."
#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 18)

"She cleaned and vacuumed, fed the fish, dusted the shelves, took out the trash [...]

If people were any poorer they just used some general-purpose household robot. If they were much poorer, they cleaned by themselves. If they were much richer, they had live-in staff. Li and Smirnov were at just the right income level to employ a human cleaner on a part-time basis. Just enough to drop casually in conversation, 'Oh, yes, we just had the cleaner in yesterday,' and so on."

#LavieTidhar

(page 7)

"Another shop, this one renting out luxury watches. [...] [P]eople wore watches to tell the world they were rich, successful, that they were going places. That they took time ~seriously~.

Mariam did too. She was paid by the hour."

#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 6)

"The people who lived on Al Mansoura [some city street - Bö.] were the upwardly-mobile, and they lived on hope. Hope was a powerful drug."
#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 6)

"The city of Neom in these pages is ~old~.

The city of Neom ~today~ remains mostly the dream of a Saudi prince, a futuristic wonderland backed by a marketing video.

You can go visit it, though. Neom Bay Airport (IATA: NUM, ICAO: OENN) is real and there's even a weekly flight from Riyadh.

There's not much else there right now, but then again, who knows? In time there might be flowers and, if so, a robot might come to the souq one day to buy a flower."
#LavieTidhar

(#Neom, 2022, page 1)

"A deliciously inventive wild ride through a future Middle East full of unexpected wonders: dutiful jackals, traumatized robots, terrifying terrorartists, caravans of elephants and great slinkying robotic khans, preserves for wild mechas and monasteries that are also singularities."
#BenjaminRosenbaum, author

#Neom by #LavieTidhar will bring me joy for sure. His episodic novel #CentralStation from 2016 would be part of my personal nomination for a #ScienceFiction canon.

https://tachyonpublications.com/product/neom/

"A deliciously inventive wild ride through a future Middle East full of unexpected wonders: dutiful jackals, traumatized robots, terrifying terrorartists, caravans of elephants and great slinkying robotic khans, preserves for wild mechas and monasteries that are also singularities."
#BenjaminRosenbaum, author

#Neom by #LavieTidhar will bring me joy for sure. His episodic novel #CentralStation from 2016 would be part of my personal nomination for a #ScienceFiction canon.

https://tachyonpublications.com/product/neom/

@bookstodon
Since I'm one stream away from finishing the excellent #ThreeMenInABoat by #JeromeKJerome, I went and treated myself to a couple more books. Picked up #WilliamHopeHodgson's #TrilogyOfTheAbyss because I've learned that I love his style of horror, and a collection of modern #SciFi #ShortStories edited by #LavieTidhar because that was always my first reading love and I've missed it a great deal.

#LavieTidhar has reached the Fediverse, folks:

"I don't know what I'm doing here."
@lavietidhar

New SFF Humble Bundle of books from Tachyon. Looks like some good stuff. Includes R.B. Lemberg, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Marjorie Liu, Bruce Sterling, Lavid Tidhar, etc.

#bookstodon #books #HumbleBundle #Tachyon #BruceSterling #LavieTidhar #RBLemberg #MarjorieLiu #NicoleKornherStace

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/sanderson-liu-sterling-and-more-great-sff-from-tachyon-books

#lavietidhar ♥️ 🇮🇱 SF

PuzzleTales is a choose-your-own-brainteaser browser adventure with a demo - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RockPaperShotgun/~3/d3x4xFoDtNk/ #browsergames #FreePCGames #JakeOlefsky #LavieTidhar #PCGameNews #Braingle #demo