hey guys! I'm relatively new to reading but I've always wanted to read books that give off the same vibes as Cyberpunk 2077 or Blade runner 2047. And, maybe something like that one episode from Love, Death and Robots with the spider 🕷(ifykyk). I really loved Annihilation aswell, so anything sci-fi horror would be great too!

"The unfortunate influence of this style of reading has dictated that we go to writers of color for the gooey heart-porn of the ethnographic...that we expect those writers to provide those intellectual commodities the way their ancestors once provided spices, minerals, precious stones, and unprecious bodies." A lot of the conversations around who can tell what kind of story (e.g., Yellowface by R.F. Kuang), but there is equal need of discourse on why and how the writing and publishing community upholds the restrictions on what BIPOC can write. Why, for example, we must see trauma before we can read of joy.

Just read chapter 20, I believe. I should probably take a break and gather my thoughts, let the feelings simmer for a little bit. But, wow. Just... wow. M.L. Wang, just got herself a new admirer. I rarely get emotional over any kind of media... not because I’m particularly "tough", but because most of it just doesn’t land. The characters just feel like characters...? It's easy to emotionally detach from someone/something when you know they aren't real. When they have no real feelings, no real emotions. But wow... this book does something special. It does somethings that only a handful of things have done to me. I’m talking Jojo Rabbit, and that Chinese animation, Link Click. Wow.

The location they ended up in sounds gorgeous. Would love to visit it. But man, the whole sex part was... awkward. Everything about Julia's writing is awkward.

As someone that doesn't speak english as a first language, this book was too much for me to get through. It might actually be the literary equivalent of walking through quicksand. That being said, I really like the themes that it explores and would really love to revisit it again so I'd like to know if someone else had a similar experience to me, and how did you guys manage to get through it?

When I read this last year, the hopelessness of it all really stirred me. Kind of reminds me of how inevitable the downfall of humanity is in the wake of climate change

FYI if you have not read Project Hail Mary yet and want to, DO NOT WATCH THE MOVIE TRAILER!!! There are solid plot spoilers in the movie trailer 🥲