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it has now been two months of suddenly having my reading mojo back. I have read or reread twenty-nine books. I can now share such revelations as 'it's been 13 years but Ancillary Justice is still a perfect book' and 'has anyone else heard of this Tchaikovsky chap?'

Emily Tesh@emilytesh.net

from 2014 to 2023 when I worked in education, I more or less stopped reading for pleasure. when you get a passion job, it eats your passions. it’s only this year it’s really started to come back.

30/9/26, 9:39 am6 reposts115 likes

Emily Tesh

@emilytesh.net

you DO all gotta read the spider civilisation books. first one won the Clarke. totally defeated my arachnophobia for as long as I was reading. here's a link: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chil...

uk.bookshop.orgChildren of Time: The 10th Anniversary Edition of the Arthur C. Clarke Award winning science fiction novelHumanity is overrated.The tenth anniversary edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s critically acclaimed Children of Time – an epic story of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Winner of t...

Sean Eric Fagan

@kithrup.bsky.social

@aptshadow.bsky.social's SF books are *really good*. My favorite is Shroud.

Marco Michelutto

@marcomiki.bsky.social

Just started Shroud yesterday because I believe in starting with an author's latest work, but Children of Time is in my Kobo already :D

Mindy

@11catslovebooks.bsky.social

Try John Wiswell.

Mindy

@11catslovebooks.bsky.social

I recently reread the Ancillary Justice series. Better than the first time because I could do all of them right away. They do hold up.

Alex

@random-alex.bsky.social

Sounds real

Isla Catrìona

@islascribbles.bsky.social

I feel like mine is juuuust beginning to return from the attention economy war after about a decade, but also that if I look at it too hard it’s going to shriek and run away again 😂 any recs for fellow recoverers?

Emily Tesh

@emilytesh.net

I started by rereading the Murderbot series, which starts with four fun and quick novellas to get you hooked before it hits you with the first novel.

Emily Tesh

@emilytesh.net

I think novellas are a good way back into reading when your attention span is suffering! There's also Nghi Vo's Singing Hills series, and I really enjoyed Kill All Wizards by Jedediah Berry.

Pyperkub

@pyperkub.bsky.social

I loved it when back in the day my favorite SF authors frequently had books of their short stories/novellas from the ubiquitous SF zines come out. Some of my favorite stuff which is harder and harder to find these days (made up for by the plethora of great authors writing longform sf tho).

Isla Catrìona

@islascribbles.bsky.social

Oooh thank you, I’ll add those to the library list 👀

wordofasayer.bsky.social

@wordofasayer.bsky.social

Hard agree with Murderbot. I've just got into Martha Wells' back catalogue and it's all SO GOOD. I don't know how she wasn't more well known before MB.