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'm finally reading Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. For some reason I thought it was YA, which I'm not interested in, so never tried it. Last week I saw it on a list of great space opera and realized I was wrong about the YA thing. Wow it's really good. The world and technology she created are so unique. I often wonder how sci-fi and fantasy writers come up with such crazy and original ideas. I'm glad they do. @bookstodon#Bookstodon#SciFi#AncillaryJustice#AnnLeckie