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This was fucking wild.
In the future, the "only way to travel" is VOYACODE: think Westworld flesh and blood dummies where your "real" body is put into stasis and your consciousness is uploaded into the dummy, conveniently located on another planet so you can explore the sites and go home with no fuss, no muss, at insanely high prices.
The beginning of the story even addresses how people were morally opposed to this and then had to get over it so that technology could advance forward. Pretty scary stuff for a children's book from 1978, if you ask me.
This book follows an eleven-year-old boy who goes to visit his aunt via VOYACODE and ends up having to save her life.
In the future, the "only way to travel" is VOYACODE: think Westworld flesh and blood dummies where your "real" body is put into stasis and your consciousness is uploaded into the dummy, conveniently located on another planet so you can explore the sites and go home with no fuss, no muss, at insanely high prices.
The beginning of the story even addresses how people were morally opposed to this and then had to get over it so that technology could advance forward. Pretty scary stuff for a children's book from 1978, if you ask me.
This book follows an eleven-year-old boy who goes to visit his aunt via VOYACODE and ends up having to save her life.
A fun little pop-up but not a lot of information and it's presented pretty haphazardly.
Every one of these creepy, unsettling tales is excellent. Highly, highly recommend.
Giving up on this one at 22%. It's too boring. There's no magic, just Bitterblue being an idiot. There's no plot at all; Leck, the fucking dead guy from the first book, is still the antagonist. UGH.
A decidedly different take on cleaning than Marie Kondo's, which I also read recently. This book is mostly focused on cleaning for the sake of your children and anyone else who will have to clean up after you when you die -- it is very Nordic, moderately amusing, and not at all inaccurate. At 27 I am not really the target audience, but I've been on a cleaning spate of late so it felt appropriate nevertheless.
However, it is very short and not actually very helpful. Thank heaven for libraries, because there is no way this scant book is worth the 19 dollar cover price. Magnusson talks a lot about herself and her history and her children which is interesting, but not useful. Would recommend to older, sentimental types.
However, it is very short and not actually very helpful. Thank heaven for libraries, because there is no way this scant book is worth the 19 dollar cover price. Magnusson talks a lot about herself and her history and her children which is interesting, but not useful. Would recommend to older, sentimental types.
It started out super boring, admittedly, but most of the essays were fascinating studies of why we react the way we do to different elements of the Mortal Instruments, and why those books are so popular. I loved Kendare Blake and Sarah Rees Brennan's essays the most.