[ SECRET POST #6155 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6155 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 40 secrets from Secret Submission Post #880.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Sci-fi and Fantasy book recs

[(Anonymous)]

Kind of inspired by 8, but feel free to include whatever. Bonus points if its a stand-alone book.

Re: Sci-fi and Fantasy book recs

[(Anonymous)]

I really enjoyed Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's a slowly paced book with a very heavy focus on mundane details of world building (extremely my shit), so it won't be everyone's thing. I would recommend it to fans of "dry" scifi and setting-focused stories.

The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women has a cheesy title but is a great collection of early speculative short stories. Some of the stories have become favorites of mine after reading them here for the first time.

Re: Sci-fi and Fantasy book recs

[kaijinscendre]

I only read sci-fi or fantasy when combines with horror.

So all of T. Kingfisher's stuff is horror fantasy (at least what I've read).

Salvation Day by Kali Wallace is a good sci-fi horror novel.

Slewfoot A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom was a great witchy horror book I read for October.

Re: Sci-fi and Fantasy book recs

[(Anonymous)]

Only a few of T. Kingfisher's books are horror/fantasy, the rest are romance/fantasy, YA, and children's, (almost all with at least a little horror.)

Her trad-published kids' books and her Hugo-winning (aimed at adults but nothing a teen couldn't handle) comic were published under her real name, Ursula Vernon.

Re: Sci-fi and Fantasy book recs

[kaijinscendre]

Yeah, I only read her horror stuff.

Re: Sci-fi and Fantasy book recs

[(Anonymous)]

I mentioned Earthsea above (which is a series) but you know what, The Left Hand of Darkness. Technically it is part of the Hainish Cycle but can be read as a standalone, it sums up the universe well enough that you don't need to go and read the others to know where you are.

(honestly of all the Ursula K. LeGuin I've read, The Lathe of Heaven is the only one where race/racism is ever a plot point, and that one is set in... mostly the real world, or at least Portland, OR. But her sci-fi and fantasy worlds are populated with Black and brown protagonists)

Re: Sci-fi and Fantasy book recs

[(Anonymous)]

This is older fantasy, but I enjoyed Phyllis Eisenstein's Sorcerer's Son and The Crystal Palace that involves different (and neat) types of sorcery - a lady who works with plants and fibers (because she's a weaver), sorcerers who work with metal and various types of demons, etc.

Re: Sci-fi and Fantasy book recs

[(Anonymous)]

My favourite Sci-Fi series is the Warchild series by Karin Lowachee. Three books so far with a fourth in the making after a longer while but they're all different character's stories and can more or less be read on their own I think.