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Hide by Kiersten White takes place at an abandoned amusement park.
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Thanks for all the recos! Got a bunch of new books added to my "To Read" pile. It seems like there's a trend for abandoned / after-dark amusement park stories, which I'm totally down with.
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Anyone got any suggestions for afrofuturism that isn't the usual suspects (Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin)? I wanna get more into it but I don't know where to start looking.
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Nnedi Okorafor? I've only read Who Fears Death but I think it counts.
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I think I've read Who Fears Death but not anything else she's done. I'll take a look at her other works, too.
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I can throw in a vote for Nalo Hopkinson; I really liked Brown Girl in the Ring.
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Leraika posted:Anyone got any suggestions for afrofuturism that isn't the usual suspects (Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin)? I wanna get more into it but I don't know where to start looking. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40680117-new-suns Has some great selections, I really loved “Give Me Your Black Wings Oh Sister” and most (all?) of the authors have other published stuff if you like their style.
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Kestral posted:Thanks for the Arthur recommendations, everyone! I might end up reading some of these myself, if I don't go straight to Mallory after this Once and Future King re-read. Just start him with the first Pyle book and leave him wanting more. Don't tell him Greene's arthur exists :P I also did a thread on Pyle's Robin Hood https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3934938
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Hello, I'm looking for a newer work of speculative, urban, or literary fiction that deals with themes of urban decay, class struggle, and ecological crisis. Any recommendations? Honestly Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower is a good example of this, but I'm lookin for newer stuff sort of in that vein, with pretty clear leftist/marxist politics.
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shwinnebego posted:Hello, I'm looking for a newer work of speculative, urban, or literary fiction that deals with themes of urban decay, class struggle, and ecological crisis. Any recommendations? Honestly Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower is a good example of this, but I'm lookin for newer stuff sort of in that vein, with pretty clear leftist/marxist politics. How “newer” are we taking about? Have you read China Mieville? His Bas-Lag novels are exactly what you described, with Iron Council being the most obviously Marxist. He is rather imaginative and well above par for genre writers. Another writer who does this type of thing is Ian McDonald. River of Gods is a cool look at mid 21st century India in the midst of a monsoon collapse. The Luna trilogy deals with a no good terrible libertarian society on the Moon. Both will make you want to eat the rich.
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shwinnebego posted:Hello, I'm looking for a newer work of speculative, urban, or literary fiction that deals with themes of urban decay, class struggle, and ecological crisis. Any recommendations? Honestly Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower is a good example of this, but I'm lookin for newer stuff sort of in that vein, with pretty clear leftist/marxist politics. Decay and ecological breakdown: Doggerland by Ben Smith is a fantastic novel about two men maintaining an offshore wind farm in the near future. Class struggle: Babel by RF Kuang just won the nebula and it’s basically about internationalism and anticolonial struggle. A bit YA-ey but overall a very good read. Colonialism and ecological consequences: Tiger Work by Ben Okri is a book about climate action told in a series of stories, poems and essays with a heavy dose of magical-realism. Not recent but maybe new to you: Embassytown by China Mieville is about a human outpost on a bizarre alien world. The aliens are the focus of the story because they can’t lie. human culture has a very unexpected effect on them. Grass by Sheri S. Tepper is a classic feminist sci fi about a plague menacing the galaxy except for one planet called Grass. The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin has a similar plot to Avatar the movie, but in the Hainish universe.
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shwinnebego posted:Hello, I'm looking for a newer work of speculative, urban, or literary fiction that deals with themes of urban decay, class struggle, and ecological crisis. Any recommendations? Honestly Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower is a good example of this, but I'm lookin for newer stuff sort of in that vein, with pretty clear leftist/marxist politics. Why newer? You should read The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner and Kim Stanley Robinson's work.
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Bilirubin posted:Have you read Oryx and Crake yet? I don't know if it quite fits OPs request but it is a tremendous book that's in my all time top 10. No other book has so perfectly captured the specific emotion this book aims for: the bleakness that remains after the worst fears of despair have come to pass. The emptiness present when your worst fears have come to pass and life yet continues.
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regulargonzalez posted:I don't know if it quite fits OPs request but it is a tremendous book that's in my all time top 10. No other book has so perfectly captured the specific emotion this book aims for: the bleakness that remains after the worst fears of despair have come to pass. The emptiness present when your worst fears have come to pass and life yet continues. That’s a great description of the vibe of that book
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I'm well aware that I'm probably chasing a dragon here, but I want to feel the same way I did when I was a teenager and first read the Ted The Caver story. In that I felt like I had fallen down a rabbit hole and was learning about something terrifying just below the surface of every day life. I've read most of the things that normally get brought up with Ted The Caver (House of Leaves and Dionaea house), I've tried Lovecraft and some contemporary Cosmic horror but tend to bounce off of it a bit. The subject matter isn't that important, it doesn't need to be about monsters or dark spaces, it's that feeling of suspended disbelief that I'm looking to recapture.
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Tea Bone posted:I'm well aware that I'm probably chasing a dragon here, but I want to feel the same way I did when I was a teenager and first read the Ted The Caver story. In that I felt like I had fallen down a rabbit hole and was learning about something terrifying just below the surface of every day life. Have you read any Thomas Ligotti? Fifteen Terrifying Tales by Thomas Ligotti has “The Bungalow House”, which gave me that kind of vibe
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Good-Natured Filth posted:I am looking for a recommendation for a fiction set in an amusement park. I don't care so much about the genre - it could be coming of age, horror, thriller, sci-fi, etc. - so long as the majority of the book is set in an amusement park. Fantasticland
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Tea Bone posted:I'm well aware that I'm probably chasing a dragon here, but I want to feel the same way I did when I was a teenager and first read the Ted The Caver story. In that I felt like I had fallen down a rabbit hole and was learning about something terrifying just below the surface of every day life. Have you tried The Hike by Drew Magary?
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Tea Bone posted:I'm well aware that I'm probably chasing a dragon here, but I want to feel the same way I did when I was a teenager and first read the Ted The Caver story. In that I felt like I had fallen down a rabbit hole and was learning about something terrifying just below the surface of every day life. Borges maybe?
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Tea Bone posted:I'm well aware that I'm probably chasing a dragon here, but I want to feel the same way I did when I was a teenager and first read the Ted The Caver story. In that I felt like I had fallen down a rabbit hole and was learning about something terrifying just below the surface of every day life. Not books, but I do have some movie suggestions that I think will evoke the feeling you're after. First off, Alternative 3. This is what you want. It is a fake British documentary that is presented in such a dry matter of fact way a lot of people believed it was real and now there's an actual conspiracy theory that came from it. I showed it to a friend of mine late one night and afterwards he got mad at me because "That wasn't a horror movie but it felt like one! I'm going to be jumpy all night for no good reason!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1tVaL8kOY After that, any of Koji Shiraishi's found footage movies. They're mostly "documentaries" about paranormal stuff that go wrong. Noroi and Occult would probably be the ones closest to what you're after. Occult is available for free on youtube. It's a documentary about a mysterious, seemingly unmotivated stabbing attack, but as they investigate one of the victims it turns out that very strange things have been happening to him ever since. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6qri3HnUQQ
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any recs for fantasy written by women? preferably not YA, preferably not smut
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Does smut = anything that acknowledges that sex exists or smut = porn?
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fine with sex scenes, just not looking to get horny from reading i dont know where that falls on that binary
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Off the top of my head and my small Kindle library... Martha Wells is a solid read usually. City of Bones was a pretty good standalone, though I've heard good things about her two fantasy series, Ile-Rien and Raksura. I keep meaning to get into them but also get distracted easily. N.K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is the start of a trilogy but stands on its own fine as well. It gets a little racy at times but I don't think it crosses the line. Been a while since I read it, though. Katherine Addison is someone who's been recommended to me but I've yet to get into anything of hers. The Goblin Emperor is the big one, to my knowledge. Addison is also apparently a pen name and she writes other fantasy as well under her real name of Sarah Monette. Lois McMaster Bujold's "World of the Five Gods" books, starting with The Curse of Chalion. The first couple are set in fantasy not-Spain and how the gods work in the world is super important to the stories. Miracles abound and they are not always happy. If you want something shorter, she's got a bunch of novellas set in the world but away from the novels, the Penric series, starting with Penric's Demon. The Penric novellas start comedic but get pretty heavy at times. She's also got a completely-unrelated-to-anything-else standalone called The Spirit Ring which I thought was pretty alright. T. Kingfisher, the pen name of Ursula Vernon, writes a lot of fantasy. Some novellas, some novels, of a varying range of light-hearted to much more serious. Ursula K. LeGuin and the Earthsea series are classics for a reason. Mercedes Lackey is a big name as well, particularly with her Valdemar novels. I've only read Ann Leckie's sci-fi but she's got a fantasy novel The Raven Tower that's in my to-read list. Nghi Vo. I've only read The Empress of Salt and Fortune but it was really good.
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:any recs for fantasy written by women? preferably not YA, preferably not smut Patricia McKillip -- The Riddle-Master of Hed, Ombra in Shadow, Cygnet, Stepping from the Shadows et al. Joy Chant -- Red Moon and Black Mountain, When Voiha Wakes, The Grey Mane of Morning. Tanith Lee -- Cyrion, The Birthgrave, Night's Master. P. C. Hodgell -- God Stalk.
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:fine with sex scenes, just not looking to get horny from reading i dont know where that falls on that binary Kushiel's Dart + sequels, by Jacqueline Carey These get a very love or hate reaction here. Sex work is a major plot point but it's never explicit. I think they're fantastic, but not everyone here agrees.
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Do the Foreigner books count? They take place on a medieval fantasy world with weird elves. The humans just got there via a spaceship.
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I enjoyed Okorafor's Who Fears Death and I'm not much of a fantasy reader
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Oh poo poo, I forgot the two best fantasy series are both written by women. Delicious in Dungeon and Dorohedoro.
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fez_machine posted:Why newer? I've read KSR. Will look into the Brunner thing. Newer because I'm interested in some speculative stuff based on a more contemporary lens on climate, mainly. Also, specifically interested in non-white authors and more in the genre of late Bilirubin posted:Have you read Oryx and Crake yet? Yeah, it's good. Take the plunge! Okay! posted:How “newer” are we taking about? Have you read China Mieville? His Bas-Lag novels are exactly what you described, with Iron Council being the most obviously Marxist. He is rather imaginative and well above par for genre writers. Funny enough I've only read October which is not his normal genre. I'll check out Bas-Lag & Iron Council, thanks. tuyop posted:Decay and ecological breakdown: Doggerland by Ben Smith is a fantastic novel about two men maintaining an offshore wind farm in the near future. Awesome, thanks for the recs. I'm reading Babel by RF Kuang right now. Aside from the quasi-YA-stylistic ness that occasionally makes me have to tell off the superego goblin that's saying "this is not sophisticated prose! by enjoying it you are betraying that you are not a sophisticated grown-up!" I think it's pretty great lol thanks everyone. I am really interested in seeing what younger left wing genre fiction writers are doing, as I feel like there's gotta be a lotta great poo poo that I just don't know about shwinnebego fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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shwinnebego posted:Newer because I'm interested in some speculative stuff based on a more contemporary lens on climate, mainly. Also, specifically interested in How about The Marrow Thieves? https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34649348
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shwinnebego posted:I am really interested in seeing what younger left wing genre fiction writers are doing, as I feel like there's gotta be a lotta great poo poo that I just don't know about Ling Ma is a good author to watch imo. She’s in her 40s now but writes very well about millennial identity stuff, with a focus on immigrant stories. Severance is really good. Ken Liu is also a late millennial but has great short stories about being millennials in late stage capitalism.
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