New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

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Evan Dahm, Carla Speed McNeil, Matt Howarth, Ben Fleuter, Spike, Jakob Free/Mark Pearce/Nic J Shadw, Yáo Xiāo, William Tallman, Cameron Morris/Nina Matsumoto, Abbadon, Taylor Robin, Evangelos Androutsopoulos, Jonathon Dalton, Magera Gordon, M. Dean, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Ainsley Seago, Meg Gandy, Zach Weinersmith, Blue Delliquanti, Iris Jay, Nero O’Reilly, Ben Jelter, Sophie Goldstein, Carl Antonowicz, Evan Palmer, and Karla Pacheco, Kory Bing

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Queer Rep:

Story the Brides of Cetus, MC is an elderly sapphic woman and Story Daikaiju, Die! features an interspecies queer couple and a nonbinary MC

Disability Rep:

Story Dr. Bubble features a character with an EXTREMELY… compromised immune system


Aaah… what a stupendous collection, with so many big names in comics!

My favorite in this anthology ended up being Written in Stone, by Carla Speed McNeil. I ended up reading it three times back to back, and then once more before I put down the book. (I reread it when I opened the book to check the author again, even).

Each of the stories embody the spirit of scifi so much! And so many wonderful alien designs, including sentient flowers who communicate by folding their petals, and beings that are an ever-shifting amalgamation of many things. There’s critiques on history, colonialism, the never-ending trudge of capitalism— ugh, so good. Not to mention the silly ones, or the ones simply exploring small ideas… vignettes.

My other favorite is The Brides of Cetus, by Meg Gandy.

Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/100
19%
Comics Read in 2025: 25/100
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 400/662
60%


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