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✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.

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@stelliform.pressReposted by @hararereview.com

A science magazine reviewing a solarpunk novel? We love to see it! Wendy Waring’s THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT is in Science, bringing fiction into the conversation about climate, inequality, and the futures we’re building. Thanks to author Priya Dames!

Read it here: www.science.org/doi/...

A Science magazine review displayed against a textured green moss background. Headline: “Climate unrest comes to a fictionalized France.” Subtitle: “Insiders and dissidents pursue different paths to environmental justice in near-future Paris.” The review, by Priya Dames, discusses Wendy Waring’s novel The Hunger of Those Who Built It. A small book cover appears at the upper right. A central photograph shows a Paris building covered in greenery, with pedestrians below. The review explores the novel’s climate-changed Paris, class divisions, and competing approaches to social change.
@thelincoln.bsky.socialReposted by @hararereview.com

"Use AI as your therapist." Um, sorry that doesn't save me time. It's far more efficient to train an LLM on my traumas and neuroses, then have an AI avatar attend my Zoom therapy sessions. The AI can distill the psychological breakthroughs I experience in bullet point form. Boom.

@wtalabi.comReposted by @hararereview.com

Infusing African philosophies into the soul of a First Contact narrative for my new novel THE FIST OF MEMORY got me thinking about the history and present of First Contact in general and in African SF more specifically and so naturally, I wrote an article about it.

@sarahebond.bsky.socialReposted by @hararereview.com

A new study of the Indus Valley city of Mohenjo-daro (c. 2600–1900 BCE) indicates that egalitarian structures increased there with the expansion of the city. Perhaps urbanism doesn’t always conjure inequality? Really wish that David Graeber was still here to read this.

@vijayiyer.bsky.socialReposted by @hararereview.com

News outlets don’t actually have to report what Isr_ says about a Nobel laureate. It certainly doesn’t need to be mentioned in headlines.

@benfrancisco.bsky.socialReposted by @hararereview.com

There has been a mini-renaissance lately of TV shows adapting great Latinx SF! 100 Years of Solitude, Like Water for Chocolate, El eternauta, House of the Spirits, and the horror stories of Mariana Enriquez. Check out my Reactor article for a rundown - including advice on proper prep for reach show!

@wtalabi.comReposted by @hararereview.com

Hey US friends! Want to read a novel that's kinda Nigerian John Wick meets Arrival by way of The Three Body Problem, Or what you'd get if Carl Sagan's Contact and Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai had a very African baby?
I've got you. Win a free copy here:
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

@thebookseller.comReposted by @hararereview.com

ICYMI: The Booker Prize Foundation is joining up with the University of East Anglia (UEA) on a new creative writing scholarship, in honour of the foundation’s former company secretary Eve Smith. 👇

@didichanoch.northsky.socialReposted by @hararereview.com

I would like to be surprised by any part of this. But I've already told y'all I'm pretty sure I was emailing with an "AI agent" while trying to get information I needed for the bookstore from one of the major distributors.

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