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a thread of the books i've finished in 2021Permalink Look on archive.org
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Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee burned through this series around the new year, and finished this on the morning New Year's Day - felt appropriate to emerge out of it & go back to reality at the start of a new year. posted about it a bit here: @v21/1345672289816350720Permalink Look on archive.org
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Situation Normal by Leonard Richardson was a big fan of his debut, also really liked this & want more people to read it! also a "scheming in a space empire" book. if anything it suffers from trying to explore too many interesting ideas at once??Permalink Look on archive.org
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Side-By-Side Dreamers by Iori Miyazawa was reminded of the author by @v21/1349832058256969728?s=19 and when I couldn't sleep last night, it seemed appropriate. a yuri light novel, which shifts from "girl has insomnia" to "hero team fights monsters" to almost existential horror.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone iiiit's... the first part of a trilogy of fantasy novels with a female lead, inventive magical systems, necromancy and intricate plotting. this shit is my comfort food. this one's about corporate law!Look on archive.org
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Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters as a 30 something trans person currently waiting on a referral to get sperm frozen, this book hit close to home! I am so glad it exists & is doing so well, it is unashamed to be messy and complicated about trans stuff.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone it's the second book in the Craft Sequence. It's good! This one is about a risk manager who works for the water company supplying an arid city (lots of Californian parallels). But magic & gods & complicated scheming.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone Book 3! This one is set on an island which acts as an offshore tax haven. Characters from the first and the second book come back and meet each other. I have read three of these books in three days.Permalink Look on archive.org
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First Last Snow by Max Gladstone Book 4! This is a prequel, where we get to see two characters we've previously seen as somewhat cryptic badasses being still very badass but also more emotionally vulnerable. It's about... probably the closest analogue is the Arab Spring?Permalink Look on archive.org
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Four Roads Cross by Max Gladstone Book 5 (the numbering within the titles is the chronological order, which is kind of impressive pre-planning). This is the fairly direct sequel to the 1st. All the same cast in new configurations. I liked the idea of the underwater vampires.Permalink Look on archive.org
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The Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky nice experience of slowly putting together a sense of how the world works from a very different perspective to the protagonistPermalink Look on archive.org
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The Expert System's Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky in the sequel the protagonist has more of a sense of what's going on, so instead we get to spend our time thinking about some properly alien aliensPermalink Look on archive.org
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Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg I approached this kind of grudgingly, because I knew it was an Important Trans Book. But when I actually got into it, it fucked me up in a good way. People caring for people, and bad at expressing themselves, and trying hard to improve.Permalink Look on archive.org
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No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood while reading Part 1 I said that it felt like a vaccine for Online, or maybe some sensitising exposure that triggers allergies. but then Part 2 transcends all that and reminds you of all the love & generosity underneath it all.Permalink Look on archive.org