Call me Bori. Welcome to my island on the lake! Admire the scenery, ignore the screams from the castle at the northern shore, and hop onto other islands at:
I discovered a love for speculative science fiction some time ago, and decided to write my thoughts as I read into the genre. My interest in science fiction was renewed after watching the 2021 Dune movie and deciding to read the books (the first 6, by Frank Herbert). I was hooked!
Later on, I came upon a 4chan thread where someone asked if The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe, was really better than Dune, to which everyone replied in the affirmative. Could it be? Something even better than Frank Herbert’s most epic of space operas? I had to find out! And so my journey began.
I liked The Book of the New Sun so much that, in the interest of consuming anything similar, I decided to go through a list of media mentioned by Ada Palmer in her introductory essay, The Path of the New Sun. That’s mainly what this site will be about. It’s my first time writing about anything, so I don’t expect to have much constancy about it, and I really am a slow reader (I tend to pick things back up after ridicuclously long periods, so I take forever to finish anything). Writing here is hopefully a way to make me stick to reading and get more of it done.
I plan on going through the works mentioned by Ada Palmer in publication order, so I compiled a list. I’ll be adding links to my thoughts on each item as I read through.
I like the concepts of small web and federation. I keep a gemini capsule intended to mirror this site:
Gemini is a protocol for a smaller internet, where sites are hosted by people, not megacorps!
You can browse my gemini capsule through the web at:
though you might like to try exploring geminispace through a dedicated client:
I also post about books and other interests on Mastodon, so you can follow me there: