![]() Lots of space dogfighting.Ĭollapsing Empire by John Scalzi. Basically Sanderson does a version of the Homeworld games. Interesting meditation on culture and imperialism. Ambassador from a small space station gets caught up in intrigue at the capital of a huge empire. Not particularly light.Ī Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. Military sci Fi with lots of math, but it's actually anti-imperialist. Machineries of Empire series by Yoon Ha Lee. After a near apocalypse from climate collapse, collectives based around water courses are rebuilding the world when friendly but paternalistic aliens turn up to take everyone to space and save them. Intensely beautiful.Ī Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys. Time travelling super agents fall in love. This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. Space adventure involving a frozen explorer being rescued after centuries, teaming up with a ragtag crew against an alien conspiracy. So yeah, what're you guys reading these days? Or heck, bonus points for indie sci-fi, as it seems the very few big indie series' I'm aware of are mostly Fantasy. All quite fun to read, though I dare say I may be in the mood for something lighter? Though I should also give some shout outs to Alex White's August Kitko and the Mechas from Space and Catherine Valente's Space Opera for doing very similar things about music and queerness and such. You'll thank me later.įor something a little more chill, I've also enjoyed Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot books, and I really should get around to reading more of Martha Wells' Murderbot novels at some point. Also there is a small and adorable dog who is integral to the plot. The protagonists are an absolutely lovely pair of newlyweds who are out on their Honeymoon space-cruise, when they must solve a MURDER(tm) while kicking back fancy cocktails and being generally glamorous. It's basically "The Thin Man, IN SPACE" and it's an absolute delight. ![]() As this thread is also an excuse to rave about how good Mary Robinette Kowal's The Spare Man is. With a spaceship on the cover.īut! I do not come to you empty handed. I'm in the mood to read something light and adventure-y. Spinning off of the related Fantasy Novel Thread, for those who are in the mood to read something with a spaceship on the cover instead of a dragon.Īnd, y'know. ![]()
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