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Slippery Creatures is the first of three novels by K. J. Charles about ex-soldier-turned-bookseller Will Darling and disgraced aristocrat Kim Secretan as they tangle with spies, hoodlums, Bolsheviks, and club secretaries in 1920s London.
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Laid-Back Camp (also called Yurucamp) is a Japanese anime series about friends who go camping in extremely civilized campsites with splendid views of Mt Fuji. This mellow series is about learning new skills, making friends, and the joy of doing things together and the satisfaction of going it alone.
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) is a novella by Becky Chambers about the collaborative society that grew out of the chaos when, centuries ago, all the factory robots simultaneously became self-aware and vanished into the wilderness, never to be seen again—seen through the eyes of an itinerant tea monk.
A warm, comforting read and a delightful answer to the question of how do you write a story set in a utopia.
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O Human Star is a science-fiction comic by Blue Delliquanti. Alastair Sterling was the inventor who sparked the robot revolution, but because of his sudden death, he didn’t see any of it. That is, until he wakes up 16 years later in a robot body. A beautifully designed comic that addresses some tricky questions about identity and personhood.
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Tsurune is a Japanese anime about a school kyūdō (Japanese archery) club, with all the usual things a sports anime has,— except that kyūdō players shoot in silence, sothat instead of the usual primal-scream-final-desperate-strike-at-goal nonsense we get beautifully animated scenes of quiet splendour.
Crunchyroll has the first season and a bonus extra episode.
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‘Division Bells’ is a novella by Iona Datt Sharma that I enjoy both as a love story and as a lucid depiction of how legislation is written by an army of passionate civil servants grinding away at the details of policy for one corner of an infrastructure bill.
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Tiger, Tiger is an amazing and beautifully drawn webcomic by Petra Erika Nordlund about a young noble lady who steals her brother's identity and his ship to sail across the world to find love and adventure, and to write a book about her favourite subject: the fascinating life cycle of sea sponges!
