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The Tutelary, the Assassin, and the Healer - Aliette de Bodard

I love sentient spaceships and I want more of that please.

Narcissus Munro, Thief for Hire - Kieran Craft

Greek mythology but cyberpunk dystopia light noir? Fun read!

A Heart of Broken Steel - Rien Gray

I love undead lesbian berserker Sköll.

Tea, Shade, and Drag Crusades - Bailey Maybray

DDR for your life, so you can slay another day.

Plezure - Rand Webber

Full disclosure I had Janelle Monáe’s iconic Age of Pleasure stuck in my head almost all the way through.

In Sheep’s Clothing - Caleb Roehrig

Fun take on androids and personhood. Makes me want more on the setting!

Hazard Pay - Malcolm Schmitz

I care about this thief and his lich. Also yay trans characters! 🏳️‍⚧️

Dotch Masher and the Planet ‘MM’ - William C. Tracy

Part Zapp and Kif Futurama, part over the top scifi pulp, with a hint of Star Trek morality. Entertaining, but occasionally had to skip all the Fictional Brand Names™️.

Jenseti, You In Danger, Girl - Brent Lambert

Camp of the high fantasy variety. Intrigued with the concept of talking ships. Queer quests of revenge will save the world maybe?

Shoggothtown - Julie Danvers

Old time detective style with booze, near death experiences, and dame— twinks. And also Great Old Ones.

Dusk and Dawn in the Grand Bazaar - John Berkeley

Fun scifi that makes me want more of this story. Really wish it was longer than this, as it feels like I’ve only gotten a little teaser of a longer story.

In The Garden Of The Serpent King - James Bennett

Classic “conquering the jungle” kind of pulp. Entertaining enough, but the content warning “body horror” could’ve done with an addition of “eye gore” and “necrophilia”.

First Worldcon buy I started reading, and man I love 1. slightly trashy romance (affectionate) 2. [time period] but scifi/fantasy

I am so excited about this book already. The style is really fire.

I know I just read N pages of full on sex but *she licked her wrist?????* hey yaël quick question: did you intend for that to be the horniest part of that whole section because it is

Just entered act 2 and man I love women who have Something Wrong With Them and whew. Isabel sure has MANY things wrong with her.

Wanted to read the sequel but didn’t remember anything, so, reread.

I have no memory of this place.

In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and terrible memories. It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears were living truths. Every trace of all that had been was blotted out. The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation.
Nov 7

But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat; whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart.

It was like a miracle; but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumble into dust and passed from our sight. - November 6

They smiled ever at poor dear Madam Mina; and as their laugh came through the silence of the night, they twined their arms and pointed to her, and said in those so sweet tingling tones that Jonathan said were of the intolerable sweetness of the water-glasses:— "Come, sister. Come to us. Come! Come!" - November 5

Only for it we should have overtaken the boat long ago; and by now my dear Mina would have been free. - November 4

I wish it wasn't so cold. - November 3

Oh, what will to-morrow bring to us? - November 2

I believe they went to the trouble of putting an extra amount of garlic into our food; and I can't abide garlic. - November 1

The Professor tells me that this morning at dawn he could hardly hypnotise me at all, and that all I could say was: "dark and quiet." - October 31

It's no canny to run frae London to the Black Sea wi' a wind ahint ye, as though the Deil himself were blawin' on yer sail for his ain purpose. - October 30

She could not remember anything, but asked what she had said; when she was told, she pondered over it deeply for a long time and in silence. - October 29

You forget—or perhaps you do not know, though Jonathan does and so does Dr. Van Helsing—that I am the train fiend. - October 28

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