Anything by Becky Chambers really! Her Wayfarers (starting with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet) and her Monk and Robot (starting with A Psalm for the Wild-Built) series are such cozy scifi!
Yay! I’ve been waiting eagerly for you to post a review here. I picked up Babel after you mentioned it in a different thread and I sat down and read it in under 24 hours. It was such a fantastic, far reaching and moving narrative that touched on so many societal issues. I love love love this novel and already bought copies for my friends.
I’m glad you also liked it! I was surprised to see the goodreads rating being lower than I expected. I appreciate hearing from others that have read it and enjoyed it.
She uses footnotes like Pratchett does, to give significant additional flavour to the whole world.
The only negative comment I can give is that many characters are modern characters dropped back in time. I strongly doubt that anyone in the 1800s thought in the same way as some of the characters in this book. On the other hand, this makes the whole book relatable for a modern audience, so I accept it.
To me, most of Ken Liu’s writing follows that same pattern. I push myself to get through the first part because the reward is a poetical and moving second part.
Connie Willis is a SF author I love. Her short stories are very political in regards of gender and sexuality, then you have her long time-travel books and her short romantic-comedy novels.
Aliette de Bodard also has many nice stories (I have only read some of the Xuya ones)
I can’t see the other comment since logging in because ??federation?? but as someone who has read both this book and The City and the City by China Mieville, I would like to agree that you would enjoy the latter as well.
While The World We Make (Become’s sequel) didn’t live up to my hopes, I will still buy anything with Jemisin’s name on it.
I feel like an idiot… it took me days to figure out that Jemisin is also the author of the Broken Earth trilogy, that I read and really enjoyed. Somehow I did not merge the two.
I found it! I had to browse this community from a separate instance in the browser and tell my Lemmy client to open the permalink on your comment before it would show up.
Anyway I’m a fan of both Jemisin and Mieville and would encourage you to read some Jemisin. Maybe not as gritty and grimy but still really good.
I would say, absolutely. Specialy if you like scienfiction. The book comes up with a lot of very cool (but hopefully not realistic) ideas and philosophys about alien civilizations, and about our own.
I was going to say Ursula Le Guin but someone beat me to it lol.
So instead: I haven’t read all of her books yet, but I’ve really liked everything by Emily St. John Mandel that I’ve read so far. Station Eleven was great (and the TV series is even better somehow!) and Sea of Tranquility was super interesting.
It’s almost entirely a cautionary tale about the dangers of law enforcement agencies acting against citizens on the basis of “precrimes” crimes that have not yet occurred or even begun to be planned but that they predict will be committed.
I didn’t even realize that the Minority Report was originally a book. I loved the movie, I can only imagine it is even more horrifying than the movie was.
Well, some thinks were based in the fear of the time, and other are completely different. For instance, the precogs were deformed mutants with latent abilities; Anderton was the Police Chief and was close to retirement, and Witver was his young second-in-command; Anderton’s victim is a completely different person; the precogs know the other’s predictions and knowing them affect their own predictions and the future; Anderton’s crime is justified, and when he’s encarcerated, Witver takes his position and wonders if he will be forced to make a similar decision in the future.
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