Aside from Project Hail Mary which I assume every /c/sciencefiction subscriber is going to read what have you been reading or plan to read?

Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (August 2023)

  • ArmoredCavalryEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    Started reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. I really like the style of writing, so much detail into the main character’s mind.

    It is also impressive just how relevant the topics are today, for a book written back in 1993 (climate change, wealth disparity, etc.). It’s really fascinating (scary?) to see what the author thought the U.S. would look like in 2024 and onwards.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      The Parable series by her get more word-of-mouth, but the series that really stayed with me was her Xenogenesis series. Like the Parable books, it has the Survival as Hero archetype going on, but in this case it’s about a species of aliens who saves the last remnants of humans after they destroy themselves and earth, and follows a woman who is seen a “collaborating” with them.

      Semi-related, I loved that that spot on Mars where one of the rovers landed was named after her. I wasn’t expecting that. I just wish she hadn’t died so prematurely and was alive to see it.