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Review: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

A square crop of the front cover of To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers.

As the Secretary General of the United Nations, an organisation of one hundred and forty seven member states who represent almost all of the human inhabitants of the planet Earth, I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship – to teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate. We know full well that our planet and all its inhabitants are but a small part of this immense universe that surrounds us, and it is with humility and hope that we take this step.

Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, 1977, as recorded on the Voyager Golden Record, Epigraph of To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
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Review: The Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty

Picture showing the four book covers, three from the Daevabad trilogy - The City of Brass, The Kingdom of Copper, The Empire of Gold and a short story collection The River of Silver.

If you take any message from this trilogy, I hope it is to choose what’s right even when it seems hopeless–especially when it seems hopeless. Stand for justice, be a light, and remember what it is we were promised by the One who knows better.

With every hardship comes ease.

Acknowledgements, The Empire of Gold by S. A. Chakraborty
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Review: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

A square crop of the front cover of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.

While the terrible thing is happening–while the land is still being stolen and the natives still being killed–any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization. But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight.

Chapter One: Departure, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar Al-Akkad
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