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Rivers Solomon - An unkindness of ghosts, The Deep, Sorrowland 

Akwaeke Emezi - PET, BITTER

Jaqueline Koayanagi - Ascension

Otter Lieffe - Margins and murmurations trilogy

Ursula K. Le Guin - The left hand of darkness

Becky Chambers - To be taught, if fortunate, the wayfarers series, the Monk& Robot series

Octavia Butler - The Xenogenesis series

Chana Porter - The seep

Tamsyn Muir - The locked tomb series

Ray Nyler - The mountain in the sea

Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing

M.E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi – Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

[bold, centered text] Forty-Two Percent [bold ends]

So how much is “adequate”?

Science says: 42 percent.

That’s the percentage of time your body and brain need you to spend resting. It’s about ten hours out of every twenty-four. It doesn’t have to be every day; it can average out over a week or a month or more. But yeah. That much.

“That’s ridiculous! I don’t have that kind of time!” you might protest - and we remind you that we predicted you might feel that way, back at the start of the chapter.

We’re not saying you [italic] should [end italic] take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent , the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare [image ends here, mid-sentence]