Nailed another one!

Office lunch was Chick-Fil-A, which was not healthy, but also not that great (not even counting the homophobia thing). Cold fries.

Read: The Cruel Stars (John Birmingham): It has the buzzwords for modern SF, neural augmentation, space-time manipulation, a little Eclipse Phase (bioconservatives vs transhuman civilization), some Culture (obnoxious hovering ship AIs), but the SFnal elements don’t quite stick together, not even counting “geostationary orbit over the northern hemisphere”. Hundreds of years of enormous AIs should have made things weirder, IMHO. But I guess milSF is always like that.

Read: Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated Into a Total Fantasy Knockout vol 1 (Shin Ikezawa, Yu Tsurusaki): On the upside, “total knockout” doesn’t mean breasts bigger than her head, and people struck by her beauty propose marriage or worship her as a goddess. However, massive heteronormativity (the whole schtick is because the leads could not recognize their feelings for each other if they were both men), and the MTF lead seems pretty young for all those offers of marriage.

Written: FAIL. Will I ever write anything again ever?