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shom ,
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Does anyone have sci-fi book suggestions that are more sci-fi utopia and world building?

I have grown up on sci-fi dystopia and I love it but since we're currently living in one I want to read something uplifting. Collection of short stories would be awesome too!

Please and thank you!

leapingwoman ,
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@shom I'll second the recommendation of Ministry for the Future. Some others I enjoyed:
The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord;
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers;
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling;
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.
Check out @bookstodon posts tagged or for more antidotes to dystopian sci-fi!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopepunk

leapingwoman ,
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@shom @bookstodon Ooh, one more interesting little book my nephew gave me as a gift: Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell.

CuriousMagpie ,
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@leapingwoman @shom @bookstodon
I have that on hold at the library, can’t wait to read it!

susankayequinn ,
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@CuriousMagpie @leapingwoman @shom @bookstodon

Imagine 2200 just released another collection of stories, and they're amazing!

https://grist.org/about-imagine-2200-climate-fiction/

I also have a list of recommendations on my website (as well as my own solarpunk adn short stories and novels):
https://susankayequinn.com/hopepunk-solarpunk

shom OP ,
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@susankayequinn @CuriousMagpie @leapingwoman @bookstodon thanks for the heads up and the suggestions.

BrightFlame ,
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@susankayequinn @CuriousMagpie @leapingwoman @shom @bookstodon

I also have book recommendations on my site. Some overlap with Susan's. http://brightflame.com/books-i-recommend/

leapingwoman ,
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meshell ,
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@leapingwoman @shom @bookstodon I absolutely love Arboreality!

jessamyn ,
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@leapingwoman @shom @bookstodon I love the new Becky Chambers series as well, the Monk and Robot series. How High We Go in the Dark is one of my favorite recent books but there are some really grim parts to it and it does talk about a pandemic, though not this pandemic, but another pandemic, so fair warning.

shom OP ,
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@jessamyn Becky Chambers seems to be the MVP of the genre. Thanks for the heads up on How High We Go, I'll put that a little further down the list.
@leapingwoman @bookstodon

jessamyn ,
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@shom @leapingwoman @bookstodon Yeah I definitely don't want to yuck anyone's yum and HHWGITD is a GREAT book but it's got some tough parts especially for (some) parents and I always try to point it out.

leapingwoman ,
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@jessamyn @shom @bookstodon now that I think about it, there were some parts where I wasn't sure I wanted to continue because of that content. I don't remember whether it had a content warning up front, but if not, it could have used one.

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