notes to self on a theme of books I want to acquire in the near-ish future

[kaberett]

This Is How You Lose The Time War, Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone
Bookburners, Max Gladstone & various
check what T Kingfisher I do and don't have and then maybe (1) read the ones I do and (2) catch up on buying the ones I don't
the various new Seanan McGuire novellas
State Tectonics, Malka Older
Murderbot various, Martha Wells
Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee
The Vela, Yoon Ha Lee/Becky Chambers/Rivers Solomon/SL Huang
Hexarchate Stories, Yoon Ha Lee
Vivian Shaw???

From last time I did this:
Updraft, Fran Wilde
Nnedi Okorafor: The Girl with the Magic Hands, The Shadow Speaker
misc by Linda Nagata


(If you want to give me recs based on this list you are very welcome. Note that it is made up of "books I want to read that aren't available via my library", rather than being a complete listing.)

Comments

[shanaqui]

Murderbot <3

That is all.

[ursula]

In the Vanishers' Palace?

[kaberett]

Ooh, thank you, will bear in mind.

[archangelbeth]

Hexarchate Stories -- I forget who I've blathered at about these, but I like them hugely, and the body-count (with occasional body-horror) is HUGE. Like, barely on my tolerance level. BUT THEY ARE GREAT BOOKS! If you, er, can handle the body-count. Which you might want to know going in.

Murderbot is definitely great as well. A huge amount of fun. Body-count is more the standard fare for, well... It does call itself Murderbot.

T. Kingfisher is guaranteed to have at least one pragmatic character, and the body count is usually fairly low. There can be some creepy elements, according to other people, but my creepyelement-meter is broken because it seems perfectly in keeping for [spoiler] to be present, and it's tense, yes, but not as bad as when I was exploring in World of Warcraft and I start rounding a corner and there are these GIANT FRICKIN' SPIDER LEGS OVER TWICE AS HIGH AS MY CHARACTER NOPE NOPE NOPE.

There's a new Bujold novella out as well!

I need to catch up on the McGuire novellas too. ;_;

[kaberett]

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT NEW H*ARCHATE NOVELLA.

I have really loved all the Kingfisher I have read so far, so!

Alas I noped out of Bujold at Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, which is perhaps unfair of me but is nevertheless the case. :(

[archangelbeth]

If you're only noped on the series & not the author, check out Penric's Demon? It's the 5 Gods universe, but can stand alone fine, I think.

Sent from my iPhone

Edit:

(Obviously, if noped out on the whole author, disregard! ^_^)

OH RIGHT I HAVE THE H*ARCHATE NOVELLA ON MY PHONE I SHOULD READ THAT!!!

Kingfisher would be a "comfort read, even if I've not read it before." Like, okay, I gather that her forthcoming horror novel is probably not comfort, but since I don't see her prior creepystuff as creepy until someone points it out (...okay, the rose stuff in the beauty-and-the-beast retelling, but... I can't explain...), I have no idea how I'm going to feel about that.

[ceb]

RF Kuang, _The Poppy War_
SA Chakraborty, _The City of Brass_

(Both of these are the start of a trilogy but I've only read the first so far.)

[kaberett]

Thank for recs!

[hilarita]

Murderbot! I adore Murderbot!

And if you haven't read Summer In Orcus yet, you totally, totally should. Top weaseling.

[kaberett]

I haven't, yet! It needs to Go On The List. (Right this moment I should finish the three books I have out from the library, but. Thereafter.)

[sfred]

Would you like to read my copy of Updraft?

[kaberett]

Ooh! If trivial, then yes please.

[sfred]

So, I went to find it, and... it turns out it is in my Kindle. I'm sorry, I thought I had a paper copy.

[kaberett]

No worries!