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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9630569" data-attributes="member: 6671663">Let’s see, what do I have of note in my log…I’m currently reading Empire of Silence, the first volume of Christopher Ruocchio’s Sun Eater series. Enjoying it a lot so far. Lots of great very far future ambience like the Book of the New Sun without being nearly as dense prose-wise as Wolfe, and lots of massive galactic empire vibe like Dune but with aliens and a general sense of vitality and possibility. Not ha-ha type fun, but thoughtful engaging type fun. Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. I bailed after a third or so. None of the characters engaged me enough to want to find out what the story was going to turn out to be. Didn’t suck, just wasn’t for me - I’m a hard sell for another story focusing on small Midwestern towns, and at a time of such extreme stresses in real life I get more parochial in the absence of something wonderfully hookful for me in particular. Worth checking out if you’re up for a story of people inexplicably driven into a mindless wandering march. I may well come back to this sometime. Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and The Idea of God by Robert Charles Wilson. Wilson has been one of my favorite sf writers since the ‘90s, in large measure for the warm humanistic element in his stories. That’s very much on display here. He advocates for metaphysical caution and for what he calls an intuitive atheism. He does it with none of the grudge-settling and self-righteous scumbagness that has made a lot of atheist discourse of recent times so annoying and unfun: he’s kind, gentle, very aware of himself as a fallible person who’s learning and growing, fair and considerate with others. One of those books that’s a pleasure to read whether you agree with any particular point or not.</blockquote>

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