His Rimes Are Sick

Clifton Royston

Yay, another Aliette de Bodard fan! This week I found common ground with one of her French readers discussing "The Red Scholar's Wake" online - we'd both stayed up past 1 in the morning on a work night because we couldn't put it down. For all the LGBTQ SF fans here, it's sapphic romance, super queer and also features a great subversion of the "Only one bed" trope.

Captain Button

A great series, though the premise of the health care/social welfare that makes them possible is rather horrific.

Nikki

Time is relative. Lunchtime, doubly so.

David Howe

Maybe it's Spaceship's side hussle?

ValdVin

And Momo is four, but is old enough to work at the library. Plus there is mention about job applicants being 18 (if human), or an AI equivalent to that based on a Turing-(someone) algorithm.

Andje Lewkowicz-Lalonde

Anne did a whole series about ships with shell people in them; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ship_Who_Sang

Todd Ellner

If this were "Red Scholar's Wake", which everyone should read, it would be " The Ship Who Snogged". Lesbian space pirate romance with sentient spaceships is highly underrated

Andje Lewkowicz-Lalonde

Oh look, its the Ship who Sailed

Steve H

Oh she would call her mom but not her brother? Or would she tell her mom to be sassy to him one more time so he can’t get the last word in?

Laura Curry

It is awkward how much I want to squish her.

Jonah Eisenstock

Five

Captain Button

Old enough to know better.

Lightsabr2

Wait wait wait wait wait.... how old is Moray then?

water water everywhere, and all his boards did blink.

Ursus Ridens

Station to Boaty: "A word in your shell-like, old thing...treat the cargo gently."

darklion

In the last panel, Marten should've started singing "'39"

Rocketguy

Not that it's relevant, but the bass line to "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is the only bass line I ever mastered. Totally came back to me here.

JourneymanWizard

Meh. AI age is ... not well correlated to human age. Yay is, what, 2 years old? Also, would AI (artificial intelligence) be derogatory? If they are self-forming sentient beings, they are no more "artificial" than humans at that point. Whether it's made in a multi-node supercomputer creche or the backseat of a Honda Civic, life's life.

Ruth Merriam

Please, mothers, don't name your boats Suez. "That went to a dark place," says the guy who yammered on about cults. Uh-huh.