#emma newman

[wizardsvslesbians]

A strange, squirmy book riddled with xenophobia and colonial guilt, which posits that it might all have been worth it if we manage to achieve human instrumentality. Still, pretty good!

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

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[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries below:

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff (The Nevernight Chronicle series)

In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.

Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.

Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.

Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?

Fantasy, secondary world, series, adult

Planetfall series (Planetfall, After Atlas, Before Mars, Atlas Alone) by Emma Newman

Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi into the unknown.

More than twenty-two years have passed since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where Suh-Mi has since resided, alone. All that time, Ren has worked hard as the colony's 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for human survival in an alien environment, and harboring a devastating secret.

Ren continues to perpetuate the lie forming the foundation of the colony for the good of her fellow colonists, despite the personal cost. Then a stranger appears, far too young to have been part of the first planetfall, a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Suh-Mi.

The truth Ren has concealed since planetfall can no longer be hidden. And its revelation might tear the colony apart…

Science fiction, mystery, psychological thriller, series, adult

[agardenandlibrary]

next up on my podcast Backlog Books (link in pinned post)

Planetfall by Emma Newman

I liked this book so much. I immediately went and read the rest of the series. I like the technology, which is not indistinguishable from magic but seems like it’s nearly within our own reach. But there’s also the mystery of how Suh-Mi knew about the planet at all, how she led them there, and what God’s City even is. As the story unfolds, you get glimpses back to the beginning, to Suh-Mi’s coma and visions, to choosing the candidates for the journey, to arriving and to the fateful Planetfall. In the fine tradition of science fiction, Newman uses a vision of the future to showcase the potential end destination of our current system. 

Recommended:

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Solaris by Stanisław Lem

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

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[them-faetale]

Emma Newman (who is stealthing on Tumblr as @empuffin), the award winning podcaster and amazing novelist, has just launched a podcast with Friends Of The Earth talking about how tech and community movements are making progress in helping fight climate change.

The episodes also include discussions with other SF and fantasy authors about what a future world would look like using the solutions discussed.

The first episode dropped yesterday, and it's a much needed ray of hope, IMO. Tis talking about community heating solutions, and features author Anne Charnock too. Should be on your usual podcast source, or you can give it a listen here:

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/about/episode-1-heating-cooling-empowering

Full disclosure - Emma is a good friend of mine, so I am absolutely biased in my 100% accurate assessment that it's great.

[lolaveda]

Kai Newman photographed by Marili Andre for AnOther Magazine, A/W 2022

Styling by Emma Wyman

[familyvideostevie]

paul newman could get it. why aren’t more people saying this

[a-fucking-tornado]

I started reading this Webtoon thinking I'd enjoy reading the first episodes, but then lose interest after a while and stop reading, like I usually do. But it didn't happen. Instead, this became one of my favorite Webtoons. This was one hell of a ride and I'm so sad it's over, but I had a lot of fun while it was still going and it brought me and lots of other people a lot of happiness. I'm so proud of all the characters, who all matured throughout their journey, and of Jimena, for creating one of the best stories I've ever seen. Thank you so much for the laughs and the crying and all the emotions I felt while reading your comic! ♡♡♡

[nonesuchrecords]

It was 20 years ago today: Thomas Newman’s soundtrack to Angels in America was released on Nonesuch. Newman's romantic, epic-scale orchestral score to the Mike Nichols–directed HBO film version of Tony Kushner's play "seems divinely inspired," says the San Francisco Chronicle, and proves "rewarding in its own right from beginning to end ... Newman has risen gloriously to the greatness of Angels." You can hear it again here.

Starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Justin Kirk, Jeffrey Wright, Ben Shenkman, and Patrick Wilson, the six-hour epic features a screenplay Kushner adapted from his 1991 Tony Award–winning play.

[agardenandlibrary]

I am not gnawing on this library book physically but I am gnawing on it emotionally (I really like it)(only 50 pages in)(just as good as the last 3 books)(I know I'm totally unprepared for whatever is actually happening on this ship but I bet it's real bad!)(complimentary!)

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 2019

[ninsiana0]

I recently checked to see if Emma Newman had another PLANETFALL book coming out, and learned that the fifth & final book won't be published because the last one didn't sell enough.

This series is Amazing, and capitalism is terrible (which the books explore, quite a lot).

Sad face.

[them-faetale]

New stuff from Emma Newman! Hopeful stuff! Better futures and real world impacts and community organising n shit!