Goldilocks in Do Better: SFF without Sexual Violence

Mar 16, 2021 Beige rated it liked it

Shelves: zread-1-scifi, zz-colour

I love reading about womxn in the future (I actually help moderate a group with that very theme). I'm also interested in SF that acknowledges the climate crisis and I especially like reading about womxn working in STEM. This checks all of three of those boxes - but it wouldn't actually be the first book I'd recommend to someone looking for those things. I felt the book focused more on power dynamics in relationships, the politics of fear and reproductive rights. Also interesting, but just not wh ...more

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Aug 21, 2020 Rachel Brown rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

This book is very, very good. It is also an extremely tough read. Not actually a difficult book in terms of actual reading. The flow is quite good. It is a bit of a slow burn, but also really interesting and captivating. It is just tough because of some of the subject matter. Earth falling apart due to climate change, pandemics, climate refugee crises, massive inequality, a blow-hard right wing misogynist as president. Some things feel a little too close to reality.

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Dec 28, 2024 Liberté rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2024-female-authors-challenge, female-authors, scifi

In a word: Disappointing. This is a between-stars rating that I have, after a day's reflection, rounded down to 1. The book is not anything like The Martian, in which the main character solves problem after problem until he gets to go home. When characters in this book encounter problems, they just give up, and people die. It also is heavily pregnancy-centric, and if I'd seen that in the reviews I skimmed I likely would not have picked up the book even though I wanted to read something by Lam af ...more

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Nov 11, 2020 KP rated it it was ok

Shelves: dnf

Hard to rate this one. I think I might have enjoyed it in another time, but I hit about the 18% mark, and was completely uninterested in the flashback portions. It took too long to get started to hold my interest, and I wasn't really enthusiastic about the "slow growth of authoritarianism" part of the story right now. ...more

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