Status Updates From Invisible Planets

Yikes invisible planets was named after invisible cities. Not my jam

‘I won Employee of the Month. How does she know about it? I lost the drinking game—music washes over me like a tidal wave. I seem to have also become a robot musician. I strain to play my foolish song of seduction, but she sees through me—I have nothing—but a mechanical heart—of iron—“Sir—would you like soda, coffee, tea—?” I smile at her. “I just want coffee, black.” This is the only truly free choice I have left.’

Mmh, acabo de leer un cuento chino de ciencia ficción que hace referencia a La montaña mágica? Interesante

‘—just like how some contract manufacturers—tried to produce shanzhai iPhones by reverse engineering & messing with the software—some rat farm owners were trying to reverse engineer & mess with the genes in their rats. Their goal was to raise the ratio of females & the survival rate of babies. Otherwise their profit margin was too low—Their varicolored furs form grand patterns—a sense of proportion and aesthetics.’

I’ve read TongTong’s Summer before and still like it.

#3: 3

Quería probar algo diferente. Además, es ideal porque es un libro con diferentes historietas de distintos autores y eso podría ayudar a mi rápida pérdida de interés en una misma historia, pero por falta de tiempo prefiero leer otras cosas

Second story would make a great movie or black mirror episode.

‘In order to discourage desertion, all the students in the Rodent-Control Force are assigned to units operating far from their homes. We can’t even understand one another’s dialects, so everyone has to curl his tongue to speak Modern Standard Mandarin—Everyone is busy shovelling rice into his mouth as quickly as possible. “Work hard, and let’s try to win the Golden Cat Award, okay?” Still no one answers him.’