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https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781035013746/alien-clay · 8 Apr 2025
Tchaikovsky is one of the best science fiction authors around and Alien Clay exemplifies his talent for immersive world-building, gripping narratives and structure. This particular tale centers on dissidents living under a totalitarian regime shipped to a ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/humane-2024 · 29 Mar 2025
Another Cronenberg making horror movies? Sign me the hell up. Not as outright grotesque as the work of her brother or her father but the concept is dark, doesn't entirely avoid some gore and entertaining throughout. It toes up to being darkly comedic and J...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780316466516/children-of-memory · 17 Mar 2025
Children of Memory takes a sharp narrative turn from the two novels that preceded it and it's not better for it. It's different. There are still spiders, Nodan interlocutors, post-scarcity voyages, but those voyages get trapped on Imir much like the imagin...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780316452540/children-of-ruin · 20 Feb 2025
🐙🌊🚀🕷️🧑🚀 The octopus book! I enjoyed the hell out of this — more than Children of Time even. It benefits from the historical context so thoroughly laid out in its predecessor and expands beautifully upon it. Explorers from Kern’s ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/timecrimes-2007 · 17 Feb 2025
A smart, brief, low-budget time travel tale. You step right into the loop in what you're told is the start of it, but could have been at any point in Hector's time travel cycle. It "concludes" with Hector 3 but could have — conceivably — gone on in per...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-gorge-2025 · 16 Feb 2025
A perfectly entertaining movie that works better by virtue of its romantic elements than its horror and action sequences. It's corny, the special effects are decent enough and the plot is pretty predictable. But it's fun throughout (of course a military co...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780316452496/children-of-time · 27 Jan 2025
A beautiful, absorbing sci-fi tale: mankind at its worst, aimlessly seeking a new home and declaring their manifest right to the first habitable planet that they encounter. Never mind that said planet grew out of terraforming efforts undertaken in a previo...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/2073-2024 · 7 Jan 2025
I wanted a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie, I got a pre-apocalyptic documentary shouting at the viewer to turn back from a briefly previewed future dystopia that we're sprinting towards. It doesn't work perfectly, but it is deeply depressing. Asif Kapadia sp...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/elevation-2024 · 5 Jan 2025
A by the book post-apocalyptic sci-fi jaunt. Solid performances throughout, a plot anchored by personal stories and committed performances throughout. Original or spectacular? No. Fun? Absolutely. I wasn’t expecting the turn at the end that the reapers w...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/0316575348/livesuit · 15 Dec 2024
I'll continue to heap praise on Abraham and Franck. This novella sets aside the events of The Mercy of Gods and drops you into the life of a soldier named Kirin who volunteers to be deployed as a Livesuit soldier. There are plenty of points of available co...