looking forward to checking my morel spots today!

oooh, this looks fun!

🫂

I hope you are on the mend soon!!

unrelated:
oh hell yes to having an HSA.

had an edible for breakfast.
that's traditional, right?

looks delicious!

Publishers Weekly: Chen (A Quantum Love Story) shows off his worldbuilding chops in this ingenious 24th-century space opera. Humanity is now in contact with multiple intelligent extraterrestrial life-forms, including the Lumersians, whose bodies are comprised of “planes of pink light” and who have shared their knowledge of photonic energy to help humans harness that volatile power source. Starship Horizon captain Demora Kim was among the first to encounter the Lumersians, and developed a close relationship with one photonic being, whom she nicknamed Chuck and considers a hero. The novel opens with Kim’s exit interview, a part of her forced retirement from the Galactic Cluster Fleet as a result of a decision to disobey orders. The plot then flashes back to explain what happened before the “incident at Base Theta Seven,” including Kim’s struggles to make a photonic engine functional at the request of her superiors, who hope to use it as a weapon in an ongoing war. Chen takes impressive care presenting nonhuman characters, showcasing their often baffled perspectives on humanity. These skillful character portraits make it easy to get sucked into their far-future plight. Readers are sure to be hooked.

Chen (A Quantum Love Story) writes a classic space opera with an original cast of characters who have been to hell and back together—or more specifically, have spent 10 years in a gravity well created by photonic beings called Lumersians, who exist just outside the third dimension and don’t understand the consequences of their experiment. That is, until one of them falls in love with Demi, the captain of the Horizon. Now returned to cluster space, the crew must grapple with a galactic civil war, what it means to join one side or another, and the ethics of pushing today’s problems onto tomorrow’s generation. The story leaves readers questioning who is right, who is wrong, and what we owe one another across species and dimensions, as the crew races back to the gravity well that already consumed so much of their lives to save the Lumersians—and themselves.VERDICT A superb sci-fi story about 21st-century issues set in a futuristic space environment, featuring flawed but lovable characters doing their best with whatever challenges the galaxy presents. Ideal for fans of Claudia Gray and Timothy Zahn.

Did you know that THE PHOTONIC EFFECT launches on Tuesday with TWO starred reviews?

"Chen shows off his worldbuilding chops in this ingenious 24th-century space opera." Publishers Weekly

"A superb sci-fi story about 21st-century issues set in a futuristic space environment" Library Journal

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

is that, is that Paul Hollywood as the chef?

it's a blast! perfectly zany

eye candy!

alllll the Shonen tropes!

OK, so maturing is falling hard for comfort tropes

this is the most enjoyable Shonen since FMA original

you'd think there would be a walking tour just for that building

lilac tree is starting to bloom = morel time!

ahh, Venice

Holy shit

magic system?
unhinged!

live action one!
isn't there like a gazillion eps of the anime?

finally watching One Piece.
the manga style camera framing is #chefskiss

🫂 I'm so sorry

didn't take a 2nd one.
should have

been waiting like 45 min for this edible to kick in. ☹️
take another?

thank you 🫂

on lots of painkillers, post op.
doing ok, sleeping a lot

who else in the hyster sister club?
I joined the club.

blocked!

photo of the book A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J Maas

OK, what's all this here fuss about.

a fuss of peeps and drama?

should I live-skeet?

#acotar #firsttime #booksky

30 degrees, 75 degrees, 30 degrees, 75 degrees