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oarditi, 2 months ago to fantasy

I’ve just finished this very enjoyable, pan-historical garden fantasy (is garden fantasy a genre? It is now!), ‘Threading the Labyrinth’ by Tiffani Angus.

#fantasy #fantasyfiction #historicalfiction #historicalfantasy #gardens #faerie #threadingthelabyrinth #tiffaniangus #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 2 months ago

@Narshada @oarditi @bookstodon It’s worth the wait!

oarditi, 5 months ago to SF

This is an audacious, brilliant follow-up to ‘Three Body Problem’, marred for me by politically naïve worldbuilding and writing of women characters that is frankly misogynistic.
#sf #sciencefiction #liucixin #cixinliu #thedarkforest #thethreebodyproblem #remembranceofearthspast #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 5 months ago

@thebaywindowgirl @bookstodon That’s interesting, any thoughts on what made it impenetrable for you?

oarditi, 7 months ago to fantasy

I re-read this after 35 years—and found it to be action-packed, baroque, philosophical, freakishly inventive, and utterly hilarious.
#michaelmoorcock #theeternalchampion #eternalchampion #fantasy #fantasyfiction #sf #sciencefiction #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

oarditi, 7 months ago

@nic I’m reading the same omnibus series, very slowly! (About 10 years from Von Bek to the end times). Von Bek is actually some of the very best, for me

oarditi, 7 months ago

@katrintheresa @bookstodon I re-read it because I’m on a mission to read all of Moorcock’s ‘Eternal Champion’ books in order—some I’ve never read before, but many I read as a teenager.

oarditi, 8 months ago

@SallyStrange @bookstodon Haha totally failed to upload the photo 🤣

bevanthomas, 8 months ago to fantasy

"My loneliness does not pain me, because I know my redeemer will finally rise above the dust.... What will he be like? ... A bull or a man? A bull with the face of a man? Or will he be like me, [a man with the face of a bull]?"

• Jorge Luis Borges, "The House of Asterion"

🎨​ George Frederic Watts
#FaustianFriday #fantasy #magicrealism #JorgeLuisBorges #folklore #mythology #Greekmythology #Greek #monster

oarditi, 8 months ago

@bevanthomas That just happens to be one of my very favourite Borges stories ❤️

oarditi, 8 months ago to Games

A beautifully stated observation from a game whose rules are a work of literature in their own right.
#games #ttrpg #storygames #books #bookstodon #thornygames @bookstodon

oarditi, 8 months ago

@grenra_solarium @bookstodon It’s this game: https://thornygames.com/pages/dialect