What are you reading in 2025?

[Eyes of Nine]

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz is a lovely little sci-fi novella about authenticity, prejudice, identity, and robots. There’s just a lot there, set in SF in the near future after California has successfully seceded from the US and given rights to robots, some of whom decide to try running a biang biang noodle shop. Thoroughly recommended.

big fan of Newitz's non-fiction

 

[Autumnal]

Great opening sentences, today featuring Peter H. Wilson’s Europe’s Tragedy: The Thirty Years War—

Shortly after 9 a.m. on Wednesday 23 May 1618, Vilém Slavata found himself hanging from a window of the Hradschin castle in Prague. This was not a predicament the 46-year-old aristocrat had encountered before.

 

[overgeeked]

Great opening sentences, today featuring Peter H. Wilson’s Europe’s Tragedy: The Thirty Years War—

It really, really is.

The Defenestration of Prague.

Defenestrations of Prague - Wikipedia

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[Autumnal]

The goddess of defenestration never closes a door without opening a window.

 

[overgeeked]

I started reading Perry Rhodan #1 for the third or fourth time. The English translations only go up to #150 or so. Here's to hoping my German dramatically improves in the next few years or someone decides to buy the English rights to the...checks notes...about 3341 novels published so far...just for the main series.