Tuesday, October 22, 2024

biogenesis by tatsuaki ishiguro (trans. brian watson & james balzer)

Each story is somehow less interesting than the last but since the first story (It is with the Deepest Sincerity that I Offer Prayers…) is very interesting, the book is still readable. It's not really biology-scifi but ecology-epistemologyfi, so plot-wise, the closest point of resemblance is probably The People In The Trees by Hanya Yanagihara.

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the true deceiver by tove jansson (trans. thomas teal)

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