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finktank

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Exploring and supporting Community Informatics and Youth Power for just futures.

Loving hard sci-fi, queer & BIPOC-authored sci-fi, abolition and abolitionist futures, Afrofuturism, Solarpunk, cooperativism, pedagogy, social change.

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finktank's books

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Erin Morgenstern: The Starless Sea (Hardcover, 2019, Doubleday)
Brandon Sanderson: Elantris (Hardcover, 2005, Tor)
Theodora Goss: The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (Hardcover, 2019, Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc)

Currently Reading (View all 30)

Trebor Scholz, Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own: The rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer internet (EBook, 2017, OR books)
Ted J Rau: Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy (2018)
Christian Pentzold, Sophie Toupin, Mathieu O'Neil: Handbook of Peer Production (2021, Wiley & Sons, Limited, John)

To Read (View all 64)

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Brenna Bhandar, Alberto Toscano: Abolition Geography (Hardcover, 2021, Verso)
Alex S. Vitale: The End of Policing (Hardcover, 2017, Verso)
prole.info: Abolish Work (2014)

2024 Reading Goal

84% complete! finktank has read 38 of 45 books.

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reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Tamsyn Muir: Gideon the Ninth (EBook, 2019, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 stars

"The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some …

The only horror-genre novel I've ever liked?

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I'm not into horror. Period. Don't like to read it, don't like to watch it. Don't even really like to hear it talked about. But this was a good ride, engaging, with profoundly beautiful visual description. It managed to be quite long and complex, and yet still relatively simple too. It turned cliches about and brought them back with something new.