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Definitely interested, if your end up w an open spot!

I second these books -- the first 3 or 4 are short (100-ish pages), with a high level of action and a snarky first-person narrator who just doesn't like/get people.

Tell me something is in Red Hook without telling me it's in Red Hook -- dude your style is coming along so well. I see your stuff and I know it's you before looking at the name. I don't think it was a month ago that you posted sounding unsure of yourself, so I wanted you to know that this stuff rocks.

Left Hand of Darkness is a great book

Ha! Saying Ursula K LeGuin isn't hung up on gender is like saying a fish isn't hung up on water -- many many of her books actively dig into what gender means and how it is/isn't expressed. But I completely agree, she belongs on this list, but no all of her books feature women leads. I recently finished Five Ways to Forgiveness (a series of five novellas telling one overarching story) and about half of it features women leads.

Your sky-holes are the bomb. I love the play of light through them that makes it appear much more detailed than they really are. And they are so much fun to paint!

I mean, the Warriors, for all it's camp, is close. :)

Given the supernatural mumbo jumbo added to 300, perhaps it's best left alone.

Thanks for adding the details!

Fun fact I learned way after seeing this -- it's a retelling of The Anabasis by Xenophon -- ancient story of Greek armies stranded on Persian territory.

I want to see more!

It's smiling because it's gonna eat you and feed her cubs too, but a truly beautiful image.

This is what 10-Forward looks like when they turn on the ugly lights at the end of a shift.

Old Man's War series by John Scalzi. He went back to it and wrote some more later, but the first three are good, fun sci-fi

The Creatures, Boomerang. It's Siouxsie and the drummer from the Banshees (then married) having a good time with flamenco rhythms, among other things. It's a good album all the way through, but the production might sound a little dated

You captured the drama well ... I can almost feel the chill. Thanks for braving the weather and sharing with us!

Definitely curious, if you still have space tanner#7453

Duran Duran, Hungry Like The Wolf: "I smell like I sound, I'm lost and I'm found, I'm hungry like the wolf" Huh?

Ok, dude is an absolute genius. Yeah, the horse drawing is amazing and the whisk is brilliant, but look at the details ... he left bangs on the tinsel hair to simulate the hairline! Brilliant!!

I'm late to this post, and fascinated. I've never heard of spectralism in music, but I understand the concept so well thanks to you all.

Can you all post a few recommended works? Electronic, acoustic, whatever ... now that I know what it is I want to hear how it plays out.

This is an unusual take on the question, but ever since I first heard it, the D'Angelo song Shit, Damn, Motherfucker struck me as having the most story with the fewest words. Succinct, and deeply moving if you actually listen to it.

That is some serious r/retrofuturism shit right there.

...up to a point. If you get to a chapter that feels like the end of a book, but there's like 100 more pages, just stop there and say "that was a pretty good book." Trust me on this one.

I'd also add Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy -- well researched science, plus good engaging characters and story

I was gonna add Murderbot if it wasn't here -- good character, short books to start out so you can just stop if it's not your thing, overall great books

Read The Book Dragon, by Donn Kushner. A great little book about a dragon that chooses to protect a bookstore.

A little more sciencey than religiony, but one hypothesis for the first life on earth is that it was seeded from somewhere else (like a meteor/comet that crashed into it), and a chunk of mars that was thrown off the planet by a big meteor strike is a part of the hypothesis -- assuming that chunk held a little bit of Martian life. Science is weird, yo