Canticle time! This was an important book that helped shape for me what's possible when talking about the past and future through each other's perspective. Some of the worldbuilding notes this book hits I still think about weekly. Excited to reexamine it with the Shelvers - ThreadSky

jfg.land • 45 days ago

Canticle time! This was an important book that helped shape for me what's possible when talking about the past and future through each other's perspective. Some of the worldbuilding notes this book hits I still think about weekly. Excited to reexamine it with the Shelvers

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Today on SHELVED BY GENRE: a new unit begins, as the bombs fall and everything changes... except for our love of reading books!

We start our sojourn through the post-apocalypse by reading the first third of Walter Miller's A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ. rangedtouch.com/2025/05/09/a...

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jfg.land•45 days ago

Book of the New Sun, Canticle for Leibowitz, Gibson, Le Guin... in some ways SbG has built a star chart for understanding the creation of Caves of Qud. Which conveniently you can listen to us talk about on one of the patreon bonusodes!

brendanmcleod.com•45 days ago

I just picked up Soldier of the Mist after relistening to this

jfg.land•45 days ago

hell yeah

ghoulnoise.com•45 days ago

I can't wait to listen, I had so much fun reading Canticle earlier this year, it really kicked off my Devouring "Scifi Lit I Never Got To" streak

I went from it to the Ancillary series to Left Hand of Darkness to BOTNS and I'm havin' a blast

jfg.land•45 days ago

Jeez, four absolute all-timers there

ghoulnoise.com•45 days ago

What should I read after I finish my first Earthsea reading 👀

(I just started Tombs)

jfg.land•45 days ago

ah gosh, PKD? Ubik or Valis. Maybe Italo Calvino for a farther pivot

dialacina.com•45 days ago

I want to slide in and second all these recommendations, and add that Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination are two absolute bangers and are additional parts of my formative library.

gureito.bsky.social•45 days ago

i have invisible cities looking at me at my bookshelf, calling "do you have the bandwidth to tackle me now? no? it's ok, i'm waiting here, take your time."

ghoulnoise.com•45 days ago

Oh I had a big PKD phase in high school, which means I should prob give them a reread by now... That and Vonnegut (Somehow, Timequake was my favorite and I think I'm going to reread it for the first time soon)

Have you ever read the novelette The Microcosmic God? I was obsessed with it back then

nictringali.bsky.social•45 days ago

I need to finish Viriconium but The Pastel City was cool, and A Memory Called Empire if you haven't already

gureito.bsky.social•45 days ago

and this is now a reason for it to go into my reading list. i've been told "you have to read it" by people that i did not trust, and thus archived it in the section "books i should probably read but am skittish about picking up" of my mind.

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