Status Updates From Diaspora

For something that started with a genderless society, this is weirdly morphing into a quite heteronormative story when it comes to the 'romantic' relationships that exist here.

The translated answers sometimes sounded like they’d traversed a Möbius strip and returned inverted, but Yatima clung to the hope that all sense wasn’t evaporating along the way, that ‘up’ wasn’t really turning to ‘down’.

The unnatural inflection of the guy who reads the Greg Egan audiobooks is annoying, but much more annoying is hearing him butcher the name of every mathematician. So far he’s gotten to ‘Yooler’, ‘Rye-mann’, and ‘Fermit’s last theorem’. I don’t know why audiobook readers are so unwilling to google pronunciations for this kind of thing.