N.K. Jemisin is doing a worldbuilding workshop at the Bronx Library Center tomorrow afternoon

Normally, I do not read book reviews. Either I haven't read the book, in which case there's spoiler potential, or I have, in which case it's unlikely to be useful or enjoyable for me to read a thing about a thing I've already read.

But Review: Radiant Star caught my eye, and I thought, “Hmm, I've read all those books” and was curious. Of course, because I am old and senile and have no understanding of time, the “May 2026” staring at me was not able to trigger the neural synapses that would remind me that I haven't read any Ann Leckie since 2023.

However, as I read Russ's review, and began to wonder what the hell he was talking about, I was able to piece together that while I have, in fact, read 6 Ann Leckie books, none of them have been Radiant Star.

This presented an opportunity, so I resolved to add Radiant Star to my todo list. To my surprise, it was already there.