The Olympian Affair is the second book in a series. To start at the beginning, check out The Aeronaut's Windlass. There are many ways to do post-apocalyptic fiction. Most are pretty dark, with an emphasis on deep, personal struggles as the characters seek to hold on to or rediscover their humanity in a broken world. … Continue reading Book Review: The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires # 2)
The end of The Broken Earth left me with that fuzzy good-book hangover.
Love a good philosophical book.
Setting as a vehicle for plot and character.
What is consciousness? What is the subjective experience we call being a being? I'm no neurologist or philosopher, but in layman's terms, I've heard and read the self discussed in two ways: One, is that our bodies create the illusion of self by storing our experiences in long-term memory as patterns of electrochemical signals in … Continue reading Book Review: The Mountain in the Sea
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