#station zero

#BooksOutLoud Day 7: purple⁣

THE RAINBOW IS COMPLETE! I'm so pleased. Other than, say, my red spiral from a few weeks ago, I haven't done many single-colour pictures, but I like how they came out and how they all look together. ⁣

Purple was a challenge, though, but I managed to find three excellent purple books that all feature LGBTQ+ characters, even if they're mostly secondary characters! None of these books particularly revolve around romantic relationships, but in my opinion it's nice to see LGBTQ+ representation outside of books specifically *about* those love stories. ⁣

Also Fierce Fragile Hearts made me CRY, a LOT, and it came out, like, this week. So if you want to be punched right in the feels... Sara Barnard's the one to go for. ⁣

Here is a blog post by author Philip Reeve, about the influences on his latest novel, Station Zero.  I think he’s best known for Mortal Engines, soon to be a film - I haven’t read it, but it’s on my ever-growing want-to-read list.

The blog post talks not only about the book, and the themes it shares with B7, but about out-of-date futures, and what we can do with them.

"So here I am, sitting at my computer in the 21st Century, wanting to write a story set in the future, but the reason I want to write it, the thing that set me off on this odd path, is that my brain is stuffed with old visions of the future left over from when I was a teenager – out-of-date futures which still feel more futuristic to me than the real one I’m living in.”

nova and zen from railhead, by philip reeve!

Dana asking Jack about his past, Gwen interjecting saying 'Who cares!', and Shelley instantly replying 'We care.'