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Robin Marx's Writing Repository<p><strong>Capsule Review Archive – The Book of Taltos by Steven Brust</strong></p> <p><a href="https://write.as/robinmarx/capsule-review-archive-the-book-of-taltos-by-steven-brust" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">write.as/robinmarx/capsule-rev</span><span class="invisible">iew-archive-the-book-of-taltos-by-steven-brust</span></a></p>
Michael Rawdon<p>Huh, it looks like I'm about to read the last of the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StevenBrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StevenBrust</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Dragaera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dragaera</span></a> novels which has a mass market paperback edition (Jhegaala, 2008).</p><p>Now I'll have to figure out how I want to continue reading the series, since I ha-a-ate the trade paperback format, especially when I already own the whole rest of the series in mass market.</p><p>Might just go with the library.</p><p>(I didn't finish Kage Baker's Company series until after she passed away (!!) because the fourth book never came out in mass market. I finally read the rest on Apple Books.)</p>
Strypey<p>‘‘‘Left’ and ‘right’ mean the same thing today that they’ve meant since the French Revolution. Ask someone, ‘What’s more important: property rights, or human rights?’ If they answer: ‘Property rights are human rights,’ they are on the right.’’</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/StevenBrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StevenBrust</span></a>, quoted by Cory Doctorow</p><p><a href="https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doct</span><span class="invisible">orow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PoliticalPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalPhilosophy</span></a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p>Today's post office run was a fuckin BANGER</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/VladTaltos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VladTaltos</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/scribblies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scribblies</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/mannerpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mannerpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/stevenbrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stevenbrust</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"'Left' and 'right' mean the same thing today that they’ve meant since the French Revolution. Ask someone, ‘What’s more important: property rights, or human rights?’ If they answer: ‘Property rights are human rights,’ they are on the right.’’</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/StevenBrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StevenBrust</span></a>, quoted by Cory Doctorow</p><p><a href="https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doct</span><span class="invisible">orow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@cass_m" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cass_m</span></a></span></p>
Michael Rawdon<p>New journal entry, “<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StevenBrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StevenBrust</span></a>: Vlad the Wanderer”: <a href="https://www.fascinationplace.org/2024/01/28/steven-brust-vlad-the-wanderer/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fascinationplace.org/2024/01/2</span><span class="invisible">8/steven-brust-vlad-the-wanderer/</span></a></p><p>My reviews of the second "arc" of the Vlad Taltos series.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/journal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journal</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a></p>
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Catching Shadows<p>_Book Review: Tsalmoth by Steven Brust_ In Tsalmoth, all Vlad wants is his 812 gold imperials (plus interest). <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookreview</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fantasy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fantasy</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stevenbrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stevenbrust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vladtaltos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vladtaltos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tsalmoth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tsalmoth</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/book-review-tsalmoth-by-steven-brust/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">catchingshadows672971735.wordp</span><span class="invisible">ress.com/2023/10/24/book-review-tsalmoth-by-steven-brust/</span></a></p>
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Catching Shadows<p>Tsalmoth is about 15% read. Younger! Vlad is such a "I got mine," dudebro. 🙄 At the same time, the giddy "I'm gonna get married and I have no idea what I'm doing," is pretty funny. Weirdly, in Yendi he doesn't seem this young. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fantasy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fantasy</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stevenbrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stevenbrust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vladtaltos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vladtaltos</span></a> In other news, I am one of many, many people who have highlighted The First Clue That Cawti/Vlad Will Be A Trainwreck Eventually.</p>
Catching Shadows<p>Reiterated Thoughts on a Divorce: Cawti and Vlad and their relationship. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fantasy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fantasy</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stevenbrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stevenbrust</span></a></p><p><a href="https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/08/15/reiterated-thoughts-on-a-divorce/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">catchingshadows672971735.wordp</span><span class="invisible">ress.com/2023/08/15/reiterated-thoughts-on-a-divorce/</span></a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p>"<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Populism</span></a>" isn't intrinsically left or right. The distinction between the two is often obscured by jargon, but there's a simple litmus test (courtesy of <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/StevenBrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StevenBrust</span></a>): "ask what's more important: human rights, or property rights. If they say 'property rights are human rights,' they're on the right."</p><p>--</p><p>If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/04/owning-the-libs/#swiper-no-swiping" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2023/08/04/own</span><span class="invisible">ing-the-libs/#swiper-no-swiping</span></a></p><p>1/</p>
rhetorical answers<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.coop/@yerald" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>yerald</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>If you've gotten into <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/StevenBrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StevenBrust</span></a> I'd enjoy hearing about it.</p><p>I go back to the <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/Taltos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Taltos</span></a> series every few years. Including the prequel series, which has supporting characters of the main series as main characters in their own rights.</p><p>I think they hold up and they're short reads, generally. (The prequels are intentionally longer because of the style they're written in.)</p>
🚀 🧠 yerald<p>This has been the year of finally reading gigantic <a href="https://social.coop/tags/speculativefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speculativefiction</span></a> series/authors I'd ignored for years and then realizing what a terrible decision that was. Now I'm delightfully drowning in CJ Cherryh's /Foreigner/ and Steven Brust's /Vlad Taltos/ amid a Vorkosigan Saga reread, and it's overwhelming but pretty dang fun! <a href="https://social.coop/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/cjcherryh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cjcherryh</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/stevenbrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stevenbrust</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/vladtaltos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vladtaltos</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/vorkosigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vorkosigan</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/vorkosigansaga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vorkosigansaga</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/loismcmasterbujold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>loismcmasterbujold</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
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Catching Shadows<p><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lyorn-steven-brust/1143331168" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">barnesandnoble.com/w/lyorn-ste</span><span class="invisible">ven-brust/1143331168</span></a> Lyorn are just as bizarre and adorable as I imagined. Look at this good dog. An adorable little narwhal puppy. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stevenbrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stevenbrust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vladtaltos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vladtaltos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dragaera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dragaera</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
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Jarulf<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br />I just finished the first story, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Jhereg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jhereg</span></a> in The Book of Jhereg by <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StevenBrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StevenBrust</span></a> Someone mentioned it was on sale (as an ebook) so I nabbed it on Kobo a few days ago.<br />This is such a fun read! I can&#39;t believe I haven&#39;t read Brust before, as this is just the kind of fantasy I tend to enjoy (well, one kind of fantasy I tend to enjoy).<br />And I have a lot more books about <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vlad" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vlad</span></a> to read 😃<br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WhatImReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhatImReading</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BookStodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BookStodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FantasyFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FantasyFiction</span></a></p>
Sunnie<p>Inspired by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://socel.net/@AE_Sotelo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>AE_Sotelo</span></a></span> and nabbed from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@geekaren" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>geekaren</span></a></span>: Introduce yourself using five books to get to know you.</p><p>In no particular order -<br>* The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern<br>* Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir<br>* A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers<br>* The Martian by Andy Weir<br>* To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust</p><p>(That was hard to narrow down!)</p><p>My Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/solcita" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">goodreads.com/solcita</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>My Bookwyrm: <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/user/solcita" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bookwyrm.social/user/solcita</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://clacks.link/tags/FavoriteBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FavoriteBooks</span></a> <a href="https://clacks.link/tags/TheLockedTomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheLockedTomb</span></a> <a href="https://clacks.link/tags/TheNightCircus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheNightCircus</span></a> <a href="https://clacks.link/tags/Reveur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reveur</span></a> <a href="https://clacks.link/tags/MonkAndRobot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MonkAndRobot</span></a> <a href="https://clacks.link/tags/BeckyChambers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeckyChambers</span></a> <a href="https://clacks.link/tags/TheMartian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheMartian</span></a> <a href="https://clacks.link/tags/StevenBrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StevenBrust</span></a></p>
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