8petros

Jennifer , 3 months ago to bookstodon

I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon #Bookstodon #Scifi #ScienceFiction

8petros , 3 months ago

@Jennifer Everything by:

• C. J. Cherryh for intricate personal/social interspecies dynamics under pressure.
• Paolo Bacigalupi for climate fiction before it became hot topic. No space opera, though.

Obviously The Expanse, political space opera of rare quality: both the book and the TV series worth it.

Also:
Charlie Jane Anders: Unstoppable trilogy (YA, very interesting)
Adrian Tchaikoffsky: Children of Time series.

kimlockhartga , 5 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon Even if it doesn't catch on, I would like to institute #WhatchaReadingWednesday a hashtag which already exists, I believe? Anywho, whatcha reading?

#IAmReading Ben H. Winter's new book BIG TIME, and it's really good so far. It is lean, so perfect for those who hate padding in their stories. I don't want to give away the premise, so I will just say that it's a bit of a thriller that involves time itself.

8petros , 5 months ago

@kimlockhartga Finishing C. J. Cherrych Chanur series. Next: "LARP Design. Creating Role-Play Experiences"

eivind , 5 months ago to bookstodon

Reading in the foreword to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that Verne originally envisioned Captain Nemo as a Polish noble on an underwater campaign of vengeance against the Russian Empire that'd killed his entire family, but that this version was pronounced unprintable by his publisher for political reasons. @bookstodon

8petros , 5 months ago

@patterfloof @albnelson @eivind Fascinating stuff. I just started it and will finish tomorrow. I almost forgot such things are still being written nowadays. Thank you.

8petros , 5 months ago

@albnelson @eivind @mattmcirvin Pretty much the epitome of then Polish emigrés' mindset - the Great Emigration is a half of the dialectical compound, defining Polish self-identification almost until now (and perhaps soon again).

Polish tradition is full of such figures, citizens of imagined, never-again-to-exist, homeland. Picture yourself, what a cultural shock was to see Polonia Rediviva - an ideal, unavoidably imperfectly embodied.

kimlockhartga , 10 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon Tomorrow (today in Australia and New Zealand) is #Ageism Awareness Day. What really good novels have you read that feature older protagonists?

These come to my mind:

Remnant Population, Elizabeth Moon

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk

Deacon King Kong, James McBride

We Spread, Iain Reid

Old God's Time, Sebastian Barry

#Books

8petros , 10 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

@kimlockhartga John Scalzi's Old Man's War series.
All Pratchett's stories featuring Cohen The Barbarian and Silver Horde.

reginasbread , 10 months ago to random

I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.

8petros , 10 months ago

@reginasbread I can rememeber a steampunk/victorian space opera novella, where a middle-aged lady became a leader of a colonial planet uprising, because the government forces burned her cannabis lot.
If anyone can give me author and title, I will do a pot ceremony for you.