vilmibm rated Trouble and her friends: 4 stars
Trouble and her friends by Melissa Scott
Gay cyberpunk, baby!
maintainer of tilde.town, co-author of the github cli, noise musician, trash poet, eupraxsophist, soft boy.
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Gay cyberpunk, baby!
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Matterhorn, this is a powerful nonfiction book about the experience …
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""Like Sylvia Plath's poems, these visionary poems are not only astute records of experience, they are themselves dazzling, verbal experiences. …
a bit hyperbolic / glosses over lovecraft's racism iirc / mostly full of wonderful lessons about life. taught me to reject the illusory "progress" of technological civilization. we're all just awful to each other all the time regardless of how technology evolves around us.