recommend me a book! i like fantasy, paranormal romance, sci-fi, queer fiction. i need 12 recommendations from other people for a 2024 reading challenge :blobcatblep:
@sunflower@bookstodon if you like HHGTTG you may like Robert Sheckley's zanier stuff. Mindswap, Crompton Divided and Journey of Joenes come to mind, in descending order as comparable to Hitchhiker's and ascending in terms of coherence.
@gravious@sunflower@bookstodon I was just talking with a friend about this book last week and "lesbian necromancers in space" was EXACTLY how he described it. I admit I tried to read it once before, but I don't think I was in the right frame of mind. My friend convinced me I should make another attempt.
@sunflower@bookstodon For a scifi/mystery I recommend The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older. It's a novella, so a quick read, and features a slowburn sapphic romance.
@sunflower@bookstodon here are some sci-fi and fantasy I really enjoyed this year:
-The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
-The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow
-Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
-Kate Daniels urban fantasy/romance series by Ilona Andrews
-Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
My all-time favorite sci-fi series is the Expanse by James SA Corey, but each book is really long and there are nine of them plus a bunch of novellas.
@sunflower If steampunk fits within your likes, I can give you a 3-for-1: Lancaster's Luck trilogy by Anna Butler (starts with The Gilded Scarab) is an ever-favourite m/m romance for me.
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Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather - space nuns (some queer) on a living ship. And there's a book 2: Sisters of the Forsaken Stars.
The audiobook is in the Plus catalogue if you're an Audible member.
@sunflower@bookstodon I just read one by Genevieve Cogman called The Library that was interesting. It was a mashup of fantasy and science fiction with supernatural characters and alternate worlds.
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