Straight to the top of best book I’ve read this year is Translation State by #AnnLeckie. High concept #scifi shot through with delicious black humour. @bookstodon#reading#books
#FinishedReading my favourite #AnnLeckie yet! Just so beautifully handled in its themes, its characters, and its wild and weird alien biology and culture, and with a streak of dark humour and even (sort of) romance to go with it. #Bookstodon@bookstodon#SciFi
#FinishedReading the followup to #AnnLeckie 's Imperial Radch trilogy. Although it is set in a different milieu, very much recommended to read the Ancillary books first because the conclusion of that series is a plot point here. Leckie is one of the best in #SciFi for inventing alternative cultures and seeing how they can clash or cooperate; here the high concepts are wrapped in a fun and twisty, somewhat noirish, tale of murder and politics #Bookstodon@bookstodon
I’d preordered this and got it the day it was published, but I put off starting it as I was sure it would be good and I wouldn’t get anything else done. I was right. Haven’t been able to put it down. I can even listen to it just sitting down with no urge to pick up any printed text (if you’ve heard me talk about audiobooks before you know how incredible that is to me). #TranslationState#AnnLeckie@ann_leckie
So, I just read that Ann Leckie has two published novels I have not read. I thought I'd buy the ebooks--I like to support the author. I can't. The ebooks (from Hachette) are DRM-encumbered, and I don't buy DRM-damaged ebooks. So, Hachette: sale you just lost. I'm sure Tor has some unmarred ebooks I can get.