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Roth posted:Neuromancer is an interesting touchstone, as a foundational part of the cyberpunk genre and also stars a weeb. it's funny, a lot of it feels cliched... but it's because he created some of those cliches (or at least brought them to modern readers/authors)
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Tulip posted:I think more people should read Ann Leckie's space opera trilogy, Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy. Core premise is that humanity has been space faring and fractious for a while, and one polity has gotten really into "ancillaries," a tech where an AI's intelligence is distributed over a bunch of lobotomized humans, which makes them both exceptionally good at ship-crew integration and very good at infantry combat, both of which turn out to be huge military advantages, plus some advantages in general comms/organization. This has unsurprisingly enabled a genuine interstellar empire. The books are from the perspective of one of these ship AIs and focus on how this imperialism requires classes of non-citizen, the regular traumatization of all levels of citizen, and how the empire creates mechanisms of distinction (fashions, ceremonies, gender norms, etc.) to justify themselves as "civilized" as opposed to the people they've been subduing. Put your gloves on
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JazzPaws posted:"The Saga of The Seven Suns" - Kevin J Anderson. I will counter suggest not reading this series. It’s what happens when a guy who made all his money writing Star Wars EU material gets let loose with a blank canvas. And yes, I read all seven the main series books
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To continue the John Scalzi promotion, I enjoyed Redshirts quite a bit. If you enjoy (or maybe just mock) Star Trek, it's a fun lark.
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