Hive Minds Give Good Hugs
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Hive Minds Give Good Hugs
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Czyta:
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Jessica Almasy
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Autor:
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Natalie "Thundamoo" Maher
Dorky, socially awkward entomology student Evelyn wakes up one morning to find herself as some sort of alien-human hybrid trapped on an unknown planet.
Once the initial panic winds down, she quickly learns she's capable of producing more of herself: additional bodies all sharing one mind. Being well-versed in sci-fi tropes, she quickly resolves to not devour the planet and turn into an unflinching biological armada, and instead uses her new powers to try and help as many people as possible.
Unfortunately, it turns out that helping people is often very, very difficult. With dreams of Earth filtering into her mind as she sleeps, the mystery of what she is and how she got here slowly comes to light while her power and responsibility grows ever larger.
For an anxious young woman who was already struggling to get by in a normal life, it all feels like a bit too much.
Hive Minds Give Good Hugs is a story about mistakes, difficult choices, neurodivergency, and cool alien ecology. It's a very human story, even though Evelyn might never be one again.
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Good story and wesome narrator
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To start on a high note, the characters are well done. Only a few of them are likeable in this particular story, but that's by design.
Unfortunately, the story falls short in multiple ways. The lack of radical political education is one I've already mentioned in the title. I think ideologies particularly pertinent, and easy to adapt for this scenario are anarcho-communism, and anarcho-syndicalism. In particular, it would help the characters find a better balance between letting bad things happen, and absolute tyranny.
Another shortfall is that the story becomes entirely tell, don't show when it comes to the utopias characters try to establish. It wouldn't have been hard to show a bit of street level utopia, but we just don't get to see it. It's some of the most interesting parts of the story, it's thematically central, and we just don't get to see it.
That being said, I did enjoy it overall. It falls far short of its potential, but it is enjoyable. The biotinkering is my personal highlight, and I would have loved to see some more of it!
Great concept, lacking execution, author could do with more radical political education
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I will not go into any detail, as I believe it would greatly take away from this experience, however, I can only recommend anyone to read this.
Natalie "Thundamoo" Maher, if you read this: Thank You. You have given me the perfect book, I would not know how to make it any better.
I'd be hard pressed if anyone finds a better book
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I want more
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Also, I saw this costing nothing on audible, so I got it for that reason originally, but after finishing it, I bought it on kindle as well. And I'll look into buying more from the reader as well.
More than entertainment
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