Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
by Raphael Bob-Waksberg · first published 2019
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…The characters are real people with wants and unfulfilled wishes. The subjects are both technology but also mortality, fate, raising children, loss. It's sci-fi, but also just good short story writing. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories by Raphael Bob-Waksberg is another good set of short stories, more absurd and about love, but equally fun. If you liked the funny-sad combo of Bojack Horseman (which Bob-Waksberg created), you'll…
on “Ask HN: Best books read in 2022” ↗…entries get cached but can be rewritten on demand. The 'anti-door' concept is from a short story, "We Men of Science", by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the creater of Bojack Horseman. It appears in the collection "Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory". From that story: "The opposite of a cat might be a dog, or it might be another cat, or it might be nothing at all."
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)” ↗