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JL Lycette MD, author🩺📚

I enjoyed The Martian Contingency, the latest installment in Mary Robinette Kowal's Lady Astronaut Universe

my review on #goodreads ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
goodreads.com/review/show/7150

www.goodreads.comJ.L. Lycette's review of The Martian Contingency (Lady Astronaut Universe #4)5/5: This is one of my favorite series, and this latest installment was exactly the book I needed right now. Oh to believe in an alternate timeline where there's still science and math and humanity heading in the right direction, albeit not without some course corrections by the characters. I'm here for these women in science and space! Thank you, Mary Robinette Kowal, for another excellent story in the Lady Astronaut Universe. I enjoyed the older, wiser, more circumspect Elma in this latest installment.
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

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I just read Slipstick. It is an amazing flowing compilation of ideas and philosophy, and I'm not sure if the author contributed more than finding and giving the chaos order, but that's okay! Seriously, half-way through reading it, I opened a document to copy out the best parts to contemplate later. Definitely requires a bookmark!

Indeed, this master work is

Not for the faint of heart

—you won't like some of it—but if you don't learn something to focus your existential thoughts upon, that's probably because you closed the document (and virtually turned the book over), because something you read frightened some truth into you…

Highly recommended.

slipstick · Here lies one whose name was writ in electronsBy poloniousmonk
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Minnesota 123456

Two of Robert McChesney’s books:

“An early book, “Rich Media, Poor Democracy” (1999), warned that consolidation in journalism would undermine democratic norms.”

“Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy” (2013), he rejected the utopian view that the digital revolution would usher in an open frontier of information sources and invigorate democracy.”

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Minnesota 123456

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Robert W. McChesney, Who Warned of Corporate Media Control, Dies at 72
By Trip Gabriel, 2025-04-08

McChesney “argued that corporate ownership was bad for American journalism and that Silicon Valley billionaires who dominated online information were a threat to democracy.”

Two of his books: Rich Media, Poor Democracy (1999), Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy (2013)

nytimes.com/2025/04/08/busines

Robert W. McChesney in 2010. An influential media critic, he warned that when a few corporate giants come to dominate online information, they hold too much power over what people know of the world.
The New York Times · Robert W. McChesney, Who Warned of Corporate Media Control, Dies at 72By Trip Gabriel
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Richard

"This book is essential reading for students and scholars of critical approaches to global development, and for anyone interested in how capitalist domination came to be and how the bio-meatabolic imbalances it created might be redressed."

Benoit Daviron, Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony: A Rich and Powerful History – Bloomsbury, January 2025 (print and open access)
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Progressive Geographies · Benoit Daviron, Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony: A Rich and Powerful History – Bloomsbury, January 2025 (print and open access)Benoit Daviron, Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony: A Rich and Powerful History – Bloomsbury, January 2025 (print and open access) How did Europeans achieve global dominance and continue to sa…
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Kirsten Menger-Anderson

"The Trump administration’s decision to order the banning of certain books from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library is a case study in ideological censorship, alumni and academics say."

"The purge at the library is extremely rare and possibly unprecedented at an institute of higher education, said Philomena Polefrone of American Booksellers for Free Expression, a group representing independent booksellers."

nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/poli

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Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy can check out copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler but not “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou.
The New York Times · Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?By John Ismay
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Galen Strickland

It has been hard to concentrate on reading lately, then writing a review once I've finished, which for this book was two days ago. I highly recommend Nghi Vo's new novella, as well as the novel that preceded it. Both are superior to the book they are based on.

templetongate.net/dont-sleep-w

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templetongate.netTempleton Gate 3.0 - Literature - Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi VoReviews of science fiction, fantasy and horror books, films, comics and television shows
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Hannu Ikonen, MD

The most Be Ungovernable anarchosyndicalist passage of any fiction Ive read:

"We have heard enough, however. Later, when we process all of this, I will tell the others, 'she wants to be a person'.

'She wants the impossible', Dushwha will say. 'Gallat thinks it better to own her himself, rather than [the government] do the same. But for her to be a person, she must stop being ownable. By anyone.'

'Then [the government] must stop being so,' Gaewha will add sadly.

Yes, they will all be right...but that does not mean Kelenli's desire to be free is wrong.

Or that something is impossible just because it is very, very hard."

- NK Jemisin

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Ian Scraper

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 12 Shameless self-promotion day. Show what you're proud of. Let's boost away!

The promotional items for the fictional band ‘Everlasting Roaring Thunder’ from my novel series of the same name are ready.

You can buy the first part of the coming of age novel in German as an eBook here: ebook.everlastingroaringthunde

The second part will be published this year.

Even if I'm going out on a limb here: I'm planning a translation into English and a print version.

A black cap with 'Everlasting Roaring Thunder' written on it. A jacket with 'Everlasting Roaring Thunder' and the website address 'www.EverlastingRoaringThunder.de' stitchted on the back. Two drum sticks and a plectrum are also on the picture.
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