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2020-06-14 00:06Nothing Special https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/nothing-special/s3-episode-10/viewer?title_no=1188&episode_no=92
Was recommended by a friend last Sunday, I just finished up. Cute fantasy. Unusual format: each entry is a chapter of pages in vertical sequence, often doing odd things with comic space. I think someone read Understanding Comics.
Qualia the Purple. Was recommended as a deep concept SF yuri manga. That is not inaccurate. Was it good? I dunno: ending felt weak to me, and I was never deeply into the characters. Was it a trip? Oh hell yeah: cognitive science, quantum mechanics, optics, also references to anime like Nanoha and Monster and maybe Madoka. Apparently based on a novel, actually.
Alexander of Macedon, Peter Green. Don't recall how I heard of this. Was interesting and well written. I guess there are lots of different 'takes' on Alexander; this one was "genius war leader, great at tactics and improvisation and guessing what opponents would do, also superstitious murderous megalomaniac." Also lucky, he came close to dying multiple times. Native Persian infantry seems to have been horrible, at least by comparison to Macedonians or Greek mercenaries.
Alliance Rising, Cherryh's recent Alliance/Union novel. Felt a bit odd continuity-wise but I guess it's way earlier than anything else. I noticed that for much of the book very little had actually happened, just pages and pages of people *worrying*. I guess that's very Cherryh.
Possibly the worst person to be in a Cherryh novel is an honest and benevolent person, because no one else will be able to believe in and trust in you.
Was recommended by a friend last Sunday, I just finished up. Cute fantasy. Unusual format: each entry is a chapter of pages in vertical sequence, often doing odd things with comic space. I think someone read Understanding Comics.
Qualia the Purple. Was recommended as a deep concept SF yuri manga. That is not inaccurate. Was it good? I dunno: ending felt weak to me, and I was never deeply into the characters. Was it a trip? Oh hell yeah: cognitive science, quantum mechanics, optics, also references to anime like Nanoha and Monster and maybe Madoka. Apparently based on a novel, actually.
Alexander of Macedon, Peter Green. Don't recall how I heard of this. Was interesting and well written. I guess there are lots of different 'takes' on Alexander; this one was "genius war leader, great at tactics and improvisation and guessing what opponents would do, also superstitious murderous megalomaniac." Also lucky, he came close to dying multiple times. Native Persian infantry seems to have been horrible, at least by comparison to Macedonians or Greek mercenaries.
Alliance Rising, Cherryh's recent Alliance/Union novel. Felt a bit odd continuity-wise but I guess it's way earlier than anything else. I noticed that for much of the book very little had actually happened, just pages and pages of people *worrying*. I guess that's very Cherryh.
Possibly the worst person to be in a Cherryh novel is an honest and benevolent person, because no one else will be able to believe in and trust in you.