Recommendations you can check.
by Yoon Ha Lee, 2016
Who uses, recommends or left Ninefox Gambit, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
2 people
Now he’s got a novel coming out, and it’s (unsurprisingly) excellent.
Blog post on books she had read and enjoyed
2016-05-31·annleckie.com ↗
Mind candy military space opera. The conceit that getting human beings to accept the right sort of mathematically-designed ritual calendar could change the local laws of physics, permitting interestingly-gruesome "exotic" effects, is I think new, and used well; the writing is also quite good, though not spectacular.
His monthly "Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur" post for June 2016 — the books he read that month and feels he can recommend.
2016-06-30·bactra.org ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
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