Assuming A Situation In Which You Are Walking Around Outside And A Snake Is In The Path. For The Snakes

Assuming a situation in which you are walking around outside and a snake is in the path. For the snakes species, go with whatever you would most likely expect to see in your region.

Snakes are generally harmless where I live, so I tend to go straight to grabbing them. This becomes a problem in regions with venomous reptiles. I just want to know how other people react to them.

Book Recs Please

What are some novels we’ve liked, lately? I’ll go first: 

The Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin; English translation by Ken Liu. Any description would be spoilery so I’ll just say some of the reasons I love it. It has a brilliant, interesting plot. It has characters who are complex and interesting. Like a lot of CDrama, characters’ morality is the result of all the decisions of a lifetime, not some baseline in their soul. And the translation is lovely.

The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker. A literal Golem and a literal Jinni immigrate to New York City in the very early 20th century, and have adventures that are half slice-of-urban-living and half evil-wizard-is-after-us. 

Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie. A ship’s AI with a lot of personality and a few thousand  human bodies that function like walking computer terminals gets reduced to a single human body, with the memories and personality of a ship. A very angry ship, with strong attachments to some humans. One of these humans, Seivarden, is a glorious trainwreck of a person; loathable and loveable in equal measure.  

scars in fiction: I got this trying to save my lover from an assassin- but tragically, I was too late. now I carry the mark of my failure with me always, and I can never forget~

scars in real life: so I was trying to open macaroni sauce with a paring knife

A SUGGESTED READING ORDER FOR TAMSYN MUIR'S SHORT FICTION FOR LOCKED TOMB FANS

1. The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time. 5k. It's short, it's the very first thing she published, it's sweet, you can think CamPal thoughts while you read it.

2. The Magician's Apprentice. 4.8k. Let's get into it. Simply one of the best things she's written, has all sorts of echoes for the Locked Tomb and altogether a barn burner. (tw: grooming)

3. Chew. 3.7k. Zombie fiction set in WWII. (tw: sexual assault)

4. Union. 5.5k. I love Union and think it doesn't get enough hype. Deeply, deeply Kiwi and also quite unsettling. A great follow-up to Nona.

5. Princess Floralinda and The Forty Flight Tower. 216 pages. A novella, get it from your library or as an ebook, alternatively, Moira Quirk does a great job with the audiobook. This is a fairy tale satire, as pointed and black-hearted as you can imagine. A main course & a must-read.

6. The Woman in the Hill. 3.9k. I'll be honest, I think this one is skippable, but then you can say you've read them all. Lovecraftian horror, told in an epistolary format between settlers in the New Zealand bush.

7. Undercover. 59 pages. Plop your money down (or find a pirated version), it's worth every penny. A undercover cop risks her life to investigate rumors of a ghoul in a gangster's speakeasy. Blood, devotion, deceit--everything you could want in a TMuir story.

8. The Deepwater Bride (links) Dessert. Available through hoopla, your local library or several ebook anthologies. Teen Hester Blake, from a family of seers, determines that blonde, Converse-clad Rainbow Kipley is destined to be the bride of an uncanny god. 22 pages and it'll change your life.

BONUS: self-published webcomic APOTHECIA, illustrated by Shelby Cragg. Space monsters, teenage girls & corruption, oh my.

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