Dani K. @dani@wandering.shop

Just a reminder, Chell is not white. She's usually drawn as a white woman because Gamers™ are uncomfortable with anything not specifically aimed at them.

The year's 2035. The itch.io bundle for racial justice ended fifteen years earlier, but games are still being added. The count is now in the billions.

And please contact me directly if affordability is a barrier to participating.

We have #SFFBookClub crowd-funds for that purpose.

@eldang

I've just closed the #SFFBookClub poll. July's book will be Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguoro.

I might just keep all the other options as August's poll, because they all got some votes and it's a good diverse selection.

@mbrubeck BTW, the novellas are this month's #SFFBookClub pick, so if you want to talk about them watch that tag.

June: we're reading Murderbot! Yay! If you need help getting hold of the novellas, contact @naga

July: I'm taking nominations for the July poll now. I'll open the poll Saturday and close it Tuesday July 9th. I'll include some runners-up from June and at least one selection from https://storybundle.com/fiction if no-one else nominates one. I'm closing the poll quicker this time so that if we choose one from that bundle it'll still be on special offer then.

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These were covered by @secretlySamantha's donations to Black Lives Matter.

But if you would like to donate to Black Lives Matter, or Black Visions Collective, or similar organisations supporting the protests right now, then that would be wonderful.

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Does anyone know of any bilingual English/Japanese instances, by the way? All the multilingual instances I know of are European.

I was going to give a day's notice before closing the poll, but I see that we have a clear winner so Murderbot it is! There are 4 short novellas and then a more substantial (and recently released so hardback-only) novel; so the idea is to start with All Systems Red, and just read as many as you feel like. https://www.marthawells.com/murderbot.htm

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