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I'm not always intriguing, but when I am . . . 🤣🤣🤣 by @raynayler

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WHERE THE AXE IS BURIED is out in paperback on April 7, from @mcdbooks and @picador

You would already know this if you were subscribed to my newsletter, ANGLES IN. There is a link to do just that in my bio, and there's also a link there to see the latest issue of ANGLES, in which I give you all the latest news, but also talk about the brilliant @hautepop and her book, which I think about every day, as well as interconnectedness, icebound ships, biorealism and more. by @raynayler

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I am late. Life has been a lot these last few months, and I am running behind. That means the fall edition of my newsletter, ANGLES IN, has not yet been sent. My lateness is an opportunity, though: you can still sign up (link in my bio) for the newsletter, and you will get the fall edition if you do it today (and probably tomorrow). My focus for this issue is on reading. Don't miss it! by @raynayler

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Réassort et nouveautés 26

#sfff #bookstagramfrance

https://librairie-zalem.fr/blog/reassort-et-nouveautes-26 Deux étagères de la librairie Zalem (8 Rue Riesener 75012 Paris) 2 livres sur chaque étagère. En haut : un des 11 ouvrages d'Antoine Volodine/Infernus Iohannes pour la rentrée avec Mémoire, mode d'effroi. Juste à côté, une nouveauté signée Salomé Esper avec Hilda Bustamante revient Aux forges de Vulcain. En bas : La montage dans la mer de Ray Nayler chez Le Bélial accompagné du 1er tome de L''école emportée d'Umezz chez Glénat. taken in Rue Riesener by @raynayler

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Yes, I woke everyone in the cabin up to look at this magnificent stick bug. That's the kind of papa I am, and I am not sorry :) by @raynayler

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BOOK REVIEW: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler 🐙🧬

This story follows the discovery of a mysterious super-intelligent octopus species. Dr. Ha Nguyen, our main protagonist and a marine biologist will do almost anything to study them and to understand what makes them so different from us.

What I loved the most about this book is how it explores the meaning of life. What does it mean to think? To communicate? To exist? And what happens when we try to answer these questions while our planet is on the edge of an environmental disaster!

Even if it took me an entire month to finish this book, it was definitely worth it! The ideas around consciousness and the meaning of language really stayed with me long after putting the book down. It also reminded me a lot of the movie Arrival, which conveys the same feeling of trying to understand an intelligence that communicates and thinks in a completely different way. If you love Arrival, you’ll definitely love this book too! 👽

To finish this review, one of the little things that made me pick up this book in the first place was the main protagonist herself! She’s of Vietnamese origin (just like me) and I loved seeing an Asian woman as the main character in a sci-fi book. It still feels too rare nowadays! 💗

#bookstagram #themountaininthesea #bookreview #sciencefiction taken in Montpellier, France by @raynayler

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My conversation about PALACES OF THE CROW with the brilliant @amgrzybowska is up at @lareviewofbooks We talk about mutual aid, care, the self, community, creativity, and the relationship between writer and reader. Come join us! Below are a few quotes. The link the full interview is in my bio + comments.

"Violence is not the norm; cooperative mutual aid is. Birds are an excellent example of this mutual aid: they live together in large and largely peaceful flocks, protecting one another. A crow does not survive in the forest; a crow survives in the flock. The flock survives in the forest. Just like humans do not survive in the world—human society survives in the world, and we survive as members of a society."

"In some ways, the act of reading is more creative than the act of writing. The act of looking, of interpreting, of taking art into one’s self is this: seeking to change the pattern that makes you up as a person. You open the book hoping it will change you, move you, introduce something new to you, teach you something, or help you teach yourself something, or it will engage you in a way that changes your pattern, and that maybe becomes a part of you."

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#Rouviou un mécha sur la couverture, un titre un peu mystérieux a suffit à me convaincre de lire « Où repose le hache » @raynayler aux éditions @lebelial.

Dans un futur plus ou moins lointain, les « républiques » ont utilisé l’IA pour conduire leur politique intérieure. Le Premier ministre n’est plus un humain mais un algorithme qui prend les décisions unilatéralement, en fonction des spécificités des pays. Si sur la forme les inégalités semblent disparaître, le peu de cas qui est fait de l’avis des habitants laisse couver une colère qui enfle de plus en plus.

Dans la « fédération », on reste sur une politique à long terme. Tellement à long terme que le « président » est simplement cloné. Le même esprit dans un corps plus jeune.

Les oppositions se mettent en place et ,quelque soit le mode de gouvernance, cherchent a fait entendre leur voix.

Quand une scientifique met au point une technologie qui peut influencer les pensées, tout s’emballe. Elle et ses proches sont sous la menace des gouvernements qui veulent posséder ou détruire cette avancée scientifique.

Si au départ la plongée dans cette vision futuriste est compliquée, quand on commence a avoir les clés l’histoire se déroule toute seule.

La vision de contrôle total et totalitaire présentée, même si elle est effrayante, rappelle beaucoup notre monde actuel, les tensions du moment et décisions incompréhensibles que l’on vit semblent être tout droit sortis d’un cerveau malade.

Par cet aperçu du futur, l’auteur veut nous montrer qu’il est toujours essentiel d’avoir des gens qui se posent des questions et qui remettent l’humain au centre des décisions politiques, qu’il est important de continuer à s’informer, à se cultiver, à rester vigilant pour garder la main sur son avenir. by @raynayler

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@raynayler shares his take on Ai singularity on the latest episode of the @talesfromthebridge podcast. You can order his latest novel Palaces of the Crow from @bookshop_org

#bookstagram
#podcast
#sciencefiction
#sciencefictionbooks
#speculativefiction by @raynayler

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