A Book a Day: Powers That Be

 Every day I'm sharing an image of a book I like. I actually picked this one up for a reread after reading a nice essay on it in Tor a few weeks ago (linked below). NGL what I mostly remembered was the sentient planet and people turning into selkies bit, because I would, but a lot about the series really does age well: It's also about small communities of local indigenous people versus the corporate/military industrial complex, and how genocide and colonial control never really go away, they just get rebrand protesters as terrorists, which hey, sound friggin' familiar right now? It also feeds heavily into that late 90s celtic twilight phase, which made me all nostalgic reading. There's also multiple queer couples, which I hadn't remembered at all and was really nice to rediscover. Anyhow, this is a surprisingly light and cheerful read about space and social justice, and do like!




Recommended reading: The Best Climate SF Novel You Might Have Missed.

Notes from Ibram X. Kendi on "How to Be an Antiracist"

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- I'm literally pumping the air every time they talk about socioeconomics and the uni students wondering where their next meal is coming from versus the ones wondering what club to go to that night.

- ooh talking about covid and racial data now

- Talking about eliminating the phrase "not racist" because you're either racist or anti-racist, you're either upholding structural racist values or trying to tear them down. Hey.

- On a question on how to deal with racist friends beyond finding new friends (me internally: why?): He suggests starting a book club, having the first few books have nothing to do with race, and then have one that is so that they are already more open to dialogue. (I wonder if he's written about this, this is flirting with bibliotherapy.)