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Also, I am finally caught up with Unsong.  I really like it.  It’s a lot like a version of Good Omens that’s based (mostly) on Judaism rather than Christianity, although I am enjoying it more than I enjoyed Good Omens.

Also does (effectively) the same thing I try to do in my fiction where it keeps introducing mind-warping ideas on a regular basis while fitting these ideas together with earlier ones, rather than just starting with one “big concept” and then developing it.

(I put it on my Kindle because reading fiction in a browser is hard for me.  If anyone else wants to do this, here is the scraper I used, although the documentation confused me for a while because it told me to install dependencies like nokogiri that I couldn’t install because they naturally came with Ruby)

nonevahed asked: Have you been reading Unsong? If so, what do you think of it?

I put off reading it for a long time and am currently only on Chapter 3, but I really like it.  It has an interesting premise (well, several of them), it’s funny, it has a unique way of encouraging off-the-wall reader speculation (”nothing is ever a coincidence” seems to be explicitly true in-universe), and it creates a wonderful sense of unease by breaking the usual laws of reality in very fundamental ways that thus far haven’t been fully explained.  Also, it does the “supernatural things have mundane real-world implications” thing, which I always like.