read some SF

some short stories by Greg Egan. And that is science fiction, hard science fiction.

Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both.

Hard science fiction

...nothing here but States and their weapons, the rich and their lies, and the poor and their misery. There is no way you can act rightly, with a clear heart on Urras. There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter in, fear of loss, and the wish for power. You cannot say good morning without knowing which of you is “superior” to the other, or trying to prove it. You cannot act like a brother to other people, you must manipulate them, or command them, or obey them, or trick them. You cannot touch another person, yet they will not leave you alone…

The Dispossessed page 300

reading Half of a yellow sun, but trying to find out about SF and which authors and books I might like to read.

Half of a yellow sun I’m going to read Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed

Le Guin’s title is in reference to Dostoyevsky’s novel The Possessed

another read goal.