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frith_in_thorns) wrote2014-12-07 08:12 pm
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[Dec 7] from the air that we are breathing to the lights and solar sail
December 7th // Masterlist
Fromveleda_k: Favourite science fiction books (right now)
Bouncing around happily at the top are Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie, and if you haven't read them by now then seriously you should do it now :P The main character is a spaceship! They're about identity and building your own families and colonialism and space politics and race and class issues and loyalty and friendship and they are just so great.
The Vorkosigan series, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Which are about space politics (I really really love SFF politics okay) and disability and friends and family expectations and they are also a sheer delight. Bujold is just so good at characters in all the books she writes — I just love everyone.
The Newsflesh series, by Mira Grant (pseud of Seanan McGuire). These are zombie books, except that the zombie apolcalypse happened twenty years ago and all the main characters have grown up in a world which is adapted to the fact that zombies are just there. These books are about how fear is used as a tool of manipulation (vote for us! ONLY WE can protect you from the zombies! — no seriously there's a whole lot about the US's massive media-stirred Ebola hysteria which is so familiar in here), and also about journalistic integrity and zombie-proofing logistics and a load of really interesting stuff. After the three main books there's a load of e-novellas which Grant has written to keep filling in corners of her world.
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veleda_k: Favourite science fiction books (right now)Bouncing around happily at the top are Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie, and if you haven't read them by now then seriously you should do it now :P The main character is a spaceship! They're about identity and building your own families and colonialism and space politics and race and class issues and loyalty and friendship and they are just so great.
The Vorkosigan series, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Which are about space politics (I really really love SFF politics okay) and disability and friends and family expectations and they are also a sheer delight. Bujold is just so good at characters in all the books she writes — I just love everyone.
The Newsflesh series, by Mira Grant (pseud of Seanan McGuire). These are zombie books, except that the zombie apolcalypse happened twenty years ago and all the main characters have grown up in a world which is adapted to the fact that zombies are just there. These books are about how fear is used as a tool of manipulation (vote for us! ONLY WE can protect you from the zombies! — no seriously there's a whole lot about the US's massive media-stirred Ebola hysteria which is so familiar in here), and also about journalistic integrity and zombie-proofing logistics and a load of really interesting stuff. After the three main books there's a load of e-novellas which Grant has written to keep filling in corners of her world.
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