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The Expanse is a series of nine science fiction novels and a collection of nine novellas in the space opera tradition, set amid a politically tumultuous future in which humanity has colonized the solar system.

You’re given a car, and it’s time to learn to drive.

B-Rhymes A rhyming dictionary for when you’re not particularly set on finding an exact rhyme for a word.

Amina al-Sirafi is a pirate nakhudha of enough renown that she’s retired, living a quiet life on a secluded coast with her mother and her daughter, hiding from those who seek revenge; though it seems her adventures are far from over.

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these.

I Who Have Never Known Men is a short novel originally published in French in 1995 by Belgian author by Jacqueline Harpman; it is the first of her books translated to English, originally published as such under the title The Mistress of Silence.

Music Credits Matthew Lyon: synthesizers & programming; writing & production.

I recently re-read Reviewing Ratings with the intent of updating a bit, and this concluding idea stuck out to me: I’m hoping we can see a resurgence of curated recommendation lists.

There Is No Antimemetics Division is a science-fiction horror novel originally published serially on the alternate-reality fiction site SCP Foundation by British author Sam Hughes under the pen name qntm, self-published in both e-book and print form under…

In learning audio engineering, a common piece of advice is to listen to your works-in-progress in the car.

on the scorption and frog on tumblr, of all places, several iterations of the scorpion and the frog parable, which go to some unexpected places: The frog paused in the middle of the river, treading water.

Zen fascists will control you… An essay that touches on both the granola-to-fascist pipeline that we saw emerge during early COVID, the self-help complex, and the nature of therapy.

Some years ago I had an interaction with my manager that went like this: manager> Hey, there’s something wrong with the numbers coming out of your metrics system?

How to grow strawberries From Mike Montiero, author of Ruined by Design, some advice for someone new in their career and recently laid off from their tech job: If you decide to persevere in this industry, I’d walk into every interview with your head held…

Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer From IEEE Spectrum, a wonderful piece which touches on a lot of my interests at once: Hendrix’s mission was to reshape both the electric guitar’s envelope and its tone until it could feel like a human voice.