Enjoyable Local-to-DW Reading

[jesse_the_k]

ilanarama is such a talented writer. Enjoy these haikus for celebrities who've died:

https://ilanarama.dreamwidth.org/tag/celebrity+obituary+haiku

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Sparked by a link to royal burial goods found with disabled humans, there's a 50-comment discussion of how/why social animals value each other, love, and also Ghanaian coffins.

https://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/554520.html

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SF Books for Adults

Jo Walton posted this at her blog
http://www.jowaltonbooks.com/sf-books-for-adults/
and wild_irises has turned it into a meme!

++ IDs titles I've read & recommend
& for those I've read
% did not finish

% Ada Palmer Too Like the Lightning (2016) and sequels
++ C.J. Cherryh Cyteen (1987)
Samuel R. Delany Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1986)
++ Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed (1974)
Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer (1980) and sequels
++ Robert Charles Wilson Spin (2006)
Karl Schroeder Lady of Mazes (2003)
++ John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Greg Egan Permutation City (1994)
& Octavia Butler Xenogenesis (1987)
++ Kim Stanley Robinson Icehenge (1984)
Andreas Eschbach The Carpet Makers
% Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep (1993)
Candas Jane Dorsay Black Wine (1997)
Raphael Carter The Fortunate Fall (1999)
++ Ken MacLeod The Star Fraction (1995) and sequels

I want to particularly plug The Dispossessed, which I just reread for the 3rd time and I learn something new with every re-read. This time there's a sexual assault plot point I didn't notice before, and I believe UKL included it to make a character less shiny.

Also, John Brunner's predictions of the future are remarkably spot on, while his sexism burns.