[–] 1 point 23 hours ago

That's fair, I used to torrent a lot too before, however now, I've found Stremio + a Debrid service to be the best way to consume content. Seeing as I don't care too much about a large personal video collection.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I consider her the founder of "Hope-punk". I love how her worlds are inherently balanced and not facing destruction or whatever. Really tired of that trope (especially since we see it everyday irl)... so her books are so amazing.

    I also really liked To be Taught, If Fortunate.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I have read all of her books (that I know of). I have hold placed on this one with my local library but they haven't received it yet. ;-;

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 day ago*

    The optimism, the enthusiasm, I dunno, although I love paranoid-non-cosy-at-all fiction like PKD books, it scratches another itch. Reading her is soothing and comforting. Almost therapeutic. At least I know that during tough times I can open one of her books and teleport into a warmer place.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Same here, really enjoyed monk and robot and the long way to a small angry planet (although I felt like it dragged a little in the middle).

    I feel like her writing has an underlying optimism to it that’s been really connecting with me. Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently is just the importance of imagining futures we might actually want to exist in, and I think her books often present that in a realistic way. There’s still conflict, but it’s the smaller scale human conflict (or just sentient beings) of existing together. After so much dystopian and space opera sci fi it’s been refreshing to read. Reminiscent of Ursula k le guin in that regard.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

    Ive only discovered her recently, and yeah me too enjoyed her other books a lot. I even read the duology Monk & Robot twice.

    I might be mistaken, but I think she really brought something new to sci-fi.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Wool(Silo) was sooo good. I'm a sucker for a good distopian/utopian/post-apocolyptic story, but I absolutely loved it. I badly want to watch the show but don't have apple TVand don't know where to find it otherwise.

    Highly recommend though!

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