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⌈ Secret Post #2557 ⌋

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[silverr]

I do think the grimmer / not so science-y trend started earlier, imo, perhaps even before "SF" started to mean "speculative fiction" as often as "science fiction"? The New Wave" of the 1970s had a great deal of grim, as I recall -- Ellison's Dangerous Visions anthologies are a great sampler of that. And writers like Ballard never were that science-y

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[ketita]

It's true, though I think I've just been feeling it more overwhelmingly, lately. I used to really love science fiction, but I liked the interesting exploratory aspect. Now a lot of stuff seems to have "people suck" as the punchline, and I honestly don't care to read that so much, so I've fallen out of the genre a little. I am definitely open to recs, though!

The only sci-fi I've really enjoyed recently is Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, and that's not really hard sci-fi, though it's quite excellent.

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[(Anonymous)]

Have you tried C.J. Cherryh? Her sci-fi is all about the clash of peoples and cultures--I've seen it labeled as "anthropological sci-fi", which I think is an excellent term. Her Foreigner and Alliance/Union series are justly lauded--though she, like Bujold, doesn't get as much attention as she should.

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[ketita]

Hmm. I remember trying to read something of hers like... 10 years ago? and wasn't awed by it, so I haven't picked up any of her stuff since. But tastes change, and so do writers, so I'll look into her more recent stuff :)
And "anthropological sci-fi" sounds pretty awesome, I could get behind that :)
It always bothered me some of the separation between "hard" and "soft" sciences in sci-fi, because I think that interrogating the humanities from a sci-fi perspective is fascinating.

And hey, I rec Bujold to everyone I know. I've gotten my entire family hooked on Vorkosigan.

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[tabaqui]

Another Cherryh fan. I know some of her stuff is hard to get into, but if you really like 'anthro sci fi' try her the Mri books, or the Foreigner series, or Forty Thousand in Gehenna, or the Cyteen books. Or the Chanur series, which is from the alien's pov. She has written *so many* things, i'm sure you can find something you'll like.

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[ketita]

I will definitely revisit her stuff :)

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[(Anonymous)]

Jo Walton on Tor.com has done a truly excellent series of Cherryh rereads: not many spoilers, will probably give you an idea of which books you'd like. http://www.tor.com/features/series/c-j-cherryh-reread

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[cbrachyrhynchos]

"People suck" is hardly new. The 1950 and 1960s invented dyslit.

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[silverr]

The last I can recall ... well, it's not so much SF as just epic story telling, is Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos (especially the first two books, before things got all Keats-y). But that was quite a while ago: I've read more biographies of scientists and mathemeticians in the past 10 years than SF. (I used to read a lot more when I lived in the Midwest (or maybe the local libraries in that time/place were just superior to where I am now.)

All this talk makes me want to drag out a few boxes of the old SFBC editions, though. I still have very fond memories of Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity.