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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • yesterday
Planet of Exile by LeGuin is a sad torture to read, but totally worh it
Few books make me sigh and despair at the tightening grip of age and the decay of hope as this one did. Ursula K LeGuin's tale, Planet of Exile, tells the story of two races…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 5 days ago
Rocannon's World - my first Ursula K LeGuin read, and certainly not the last
Since my father's funeral, I've owned an Ursula K LeGuin collection. Until recently, I learned it was not the collection I've wanted to read. That book was The Earthsea…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Gaming • 7 days ago
holoz0r's A-Z of Steam: Breachway
When I purchased Breachway , it looked like everything that I wanted from a Slay The Spire - like game. Replayability, a new setting, science-fiction, space battles, and…
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holoz0r (77)in Movies & TV Shows • 14 days ago
I finally watched Bugonia ... and I have to say - go watch Poor Things, too...
Emma Stone has had a recent knack for really strange, interesting roles in the movies I've watched lately. Thoroughly enjoying Poor Things , (I've not yet read the book) - I…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 15 days ago
Another last book of 2025(The 29th!) - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan - but ... why?
Small Things Like These is a diminutive book, written by Claire Keegan, who, the back cover of the book tells me, won many prizes, such as the Rooney Prize for Irish literature…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 17 days ago
Maybe the last read of 2025: The Day of the Triffids
The Day of The Triffids is a perfectly executed book. This is evident not only from the fact that it is published as a Penguin Classic, in a familiar, pocket sized paperback…
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holoz0r (77)in Reflections • 21 days ago
The Best Year of My Life
A bold title to be sure - but why? In summary, this year, began by a return to work, whereupon, on my first day back i the office, a massive restructure of the company I once…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 27 days ago
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - The final VALIS book, reviewed
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer represents the fifth Philip K Dick book I’ve read in a row. I have to say, that this one was the most work. It was the last he’d write before…
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holoz0r (77)in Music • last month
holoz0r's 2025 in music
My 2025 musical listening habits and reflections on live music.
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holoz0r (77)in #life • last month
The Fourth Week of my new job starts tomorrow - an update
Tomorrow marks the start of the fourth week of my new job. I am yet to be escorted out of the building without an entry pass, but I am very pleased to say that this is the first…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • last month
Mosaic: Room to Surveil
Monochromatic monitors painted the walls. Illuminated in a bizzare grey light, his elderly pores held the red tinge of inflammation from a dull razor. Strapped into the chair in…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • last month
Book Review: The Divine Invasion by Philip K Dick
Philip K Dick has an obsession with diseased, ill, dying women. They've featured in each of the recent books I've read. Last time, it was cancer, this time, it is MS. They're…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • last month
Mosaic: Castle
Home was an apartment. It was up three flights of unforgiving, weathered stairs – if the lift was broken. His had a single bedroom. Cold in the winter. Hot in the summer. Dark at…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 2 months ago
Mosaic - Homeward
Billboards ran through sequences of marketing that was vapid and uninspiring, for products nobody needed. They illuminated the halls of the train station with their rainbow…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 2 months ago
Mosaic: Coffee Shop
He sat in the café. He looked at his laptop bag, and back to the cooling cup of coffee. Steam quietly drifted upward in the cold winter day. His job interview had gone well, he…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 2 months ago
Mosaic: The Building
The building was a long-forgotten memory, clinging to an otherwise quiet, modern street filled with structures of steel, glass, concrete and ambition. A single block from the…
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holoz0r (77)in Movies & TV Shows • 2 months ago
Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams ends with The Father Thing
I am not the only person in the world with "daddy issues" but when I consider the title The Father Thing I definitely think about unrequited fatherly love and impostors. I…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 2 months ago
Mosaic - The Breathing Machine
I see the moustache he wore on the faces of strangers. They're different skulls, different faces, but the features are a memory summoned by adjacent genetics. Ultimately, there…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 2 months ago
Mosaic - Good Morning Phil
"You're late again," said the man in the corporate costume. Woven from the same fabric as an ordinary suit, its purpose as a costume was confirmed by the text sewn into a…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 2 months ago
Mosaic - Classroom Adrift
" Some events occur without us noticing, so that is why we measure as much as we can." A teacher's voice emantated into the cheaply constructed classroom. He had an old, kind…
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