That’s a really good point that we have discussed too. Quippy names were fun, but added challenges with the actual process. Thank you.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear more soon and it’s published by end of year early next.

I’ve been working through the Binti novellas by Nnedi Okorafor. It’s my first exposure to Afro-Futurism and I’m enjoying them so far.

Welcome to the Donut Holes/Princess Posse.

As one of those behind the bingo, that’s amazing to hear. Missing r/Fantasy’s bingo myself was a huge motivation to start it.

I’d say that the Monk and Robot series by Becky Chambers matches perfectly. They are novellas, but they are incredibly thoughtful on the ideas of consciousness, purpose, and the relationship between humans and robots in that universe but also applicable to other experiences.

The main reasons I still haven’t closed Mine is that there are a couple niche groups I follow, local places that post daily status updates about things like ice fishing conditions that only exist there, and marketplace. I hate how Facebook hollowed out Craigslist.

The keyboard uses super capacitors which are much longer lasting than lithium batteries, it also has an USB C wired connection port hidden under a cap.

Because Apple has fuck you levels of money and 95 million is a drop in the bucket to make a problem disappear. That’s basically only 5 days of Apple’s annual gross profit.

Minnesota is basically southern Canada already.

I’ve heard it said that Captain Lezbian definitely knows how to take care of the little man in the boat.

That’s easy, I just type “??!!”… then it changes it to “‽”.

I like them so much I made a keyboard shortcut to replace them if I type “??!!”.

Ugh. I didn’t catch that autocorrect changed it and made the joke worse.

I hereby further submit to you that “Dr” Pepper is in fact not a real doctor.

Sure, Right… what’s your next claim, that Captain Crunch isn’t really a senior commissioned officer in the navy‽‽

Artax didn’t give his life for that sort of disrespect.

My favorite is hardcover.app as well, though I also maintain my data on storygraph. (I guess technically I maintain it on Goodreads too, but that’s only because calibre auto updates my reading)

It’s mostly fine… It kind of suffers similar flaws to the second Hunger Games book by being a “let’s do that again”-style rehash of the first. But the series makes a cohesive whole.

I think one of the reasons Broken works fairly well for me is it doesn’t feel the need to tie off every loose thread by the end. I still end up wanting to return to the world without the story being anti-climactic.

Yep. It takes a certain amount of skill to be able to ramp up the power and abilities of your protagonist without the story getting away from you.  That’s kind of why I described what I could recommend as series because there’s a few where the first few work well HWFWM being one of them but after that, there’s a pretty significant drop off in quality of the overall narrative.

And even one of those that I’d say that I recommend (Ready Player One/Two) works pretty well but more so for a subset of readers that I just happen to be part of (those whose main cultural media experiences were between the 70s and the 90s.) and while the series works moderately well it’s definitely written to a specific subset of readers.

As an aside because I already mentioned two of the three I recommended in the original comment, I should probably also recognize the third just for posterity. It’s the four book trilogy, This Trilogy is Broken by JP Valentine.

Magician by Raymond E Feist (later broken into Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master and the split works even better)

Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings.

Both are pretty cliché by modern views, but both are pretty well written otherwise. Good world building.

But ooo-boy, if one is the type of person that has trouble mentally separating the very problematic writer from their works (like JK Rowling or Marion Zimmerman Bradley), Eddings probably isn’t the best to read.