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Yes I’m still trying to get through all the Hugo winners. No I’m apparently still not yet past the weird 70s sci fi thing for ‘free love’ showcases of misogyny.

One day soon.

I promised myself I’d finish this before the twenties came back round but I‘m really struggling to see how it’s worth the faff tbh

So this one’s apparently about a lesbian wanting to have sex with a man and then drowning... but also cats in a spaceship orbiting the moon. BRING IT.

Ah, crap, this one is L O N G. Please make this better than the last or I will give up this Hugo business without making it to a decade I was alive in.

Pleasantly surprised by how quickly I got my first female main character in my Hugo Prize winner read through - thought I’d have to wait for a good nother 30 years worth.

Pleasantly surprised by how quickly I got my first female main character in my Hugo Prize winner read through - thought I’d have to wait for a good nother 30 years worth.

I wish books came with a rating system. This book is rated R, for 'an awful lot of sex'.

I felt like picking up something that was the opposite of something I would normally pick up so here we go

Jesus WHY

The back cover dared me to read it on the bus - I've one upped and have been reading at work. Probably one I should have gone for the kindle version of...

Reading Great Expectations whilst waiting for a delayed flight that had to be rebooked due to passport loss is a unique experience that I'd rather never repeat.

I will finish a Dickens book, I will finish a Dickens book, I will finish a Dickens book...

Finally used to the language what what

Holy explosition

I wish I could just insert photos of the series of faces I've made over the past few pages.

I keep ending up in tears because of just how great it is I don't know how to deal with this level of words.

So I really wasn't expecting this to be like... Brave New World in space with centaurs, batmen, and mermaids, but I think that's what I'm getting??!?!

The goodreads synopsis of this really doesn't do the blurb justice: '... the planet its dwellers called the Well World turned beings of every kind into something else. There spacefarer Nathan Brazil found himself companioned by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid - all once as human as he.'

'Alive and slippery muscle' is possibly the creepiest description of a kiss I have ever read

oh my god this book is everything I have ever wanted to read

'I wished to become a plant... I became a plant.' um.

This feels like the birth of a serial killer, but I'm fairly sure that's not what this book is supposed to be about.

oh MY GOD i was not expecting this to be a hunting and butchering animals manual for children wtf

THIS BOOK IS EVERYTHING