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Two sf books from Blake Crouch that I thought were good: Dark Matter: A former research physicist who settled down to a college teaching career with a wife and son is kidnapped by a mysterious stranger. He's taken to a warehouse where he's knocked out and when he wakes up he discovers he's in another reality. He then tries to find his way back home to his world. Recursion: Alternating stories about a detective in the present dealing with a bizarre rash of cases where people wake up one day with two sets of memories in their heads. The other is set roughly 10 years in the past where a doctor gets hired by an eccentric billionaire who agrees to fully fund her Alzheimer's cure research. Dark Matter is interesting because it deals with something that doesn't ever seem to pop up in multiverse stories, namely (big spoiler for the second half of the book) the main character starts to run into multiple versions of himself that are also trying to get back to the same home universe because their universes split after being kidnapped.
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:Put your gloves on Reminds me of the Machineries of Empire series by Yoon Ha Lee which also has a thing about gloves and naked hands. Four books (Ninefox Gambit, Raven Stratagem, Revenant Gun and Hexacharte Stories) which follows Kel Cheris, a captain in the Hexacharte space empire. Hundreds of years ago the empire discovered that if you get enough people following the exact same calendar you can alter the laws of physics. This includes creating different effects by just placing soldiers/ships into certain formations. Unfortunately a side effect is that they crack down hard on anything unorthodox, which Kel Cheris discovers when her actions help her squadron survive a battle. Her chance at redemption is to retake an impenetrable fortress on the edge of Hexacharte space that is being corrupted with an enemy calendar. Her only tools are a fleet of ships that have no way of breaking down the fortress's defenses and the ghost of the insane traitor (and greatest general who ever lived) Shuos Jedao.
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Sep 18, 2020 21:03
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I liked Redshirts up until they get to the "real" world, where I thought it just kind of fell apart.
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Oct 28, 2020 00:30
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There's The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie. It is set in a fantasy world with gods but the gods have to follow actual science to do things. The book follows two plotlines, one the story of a god that is manifest as a large stone and its history of being worshipped by primitive peoples and the other is the story of a kingdom ruled by the Raven god but there has been some issues with the succession of the next human leader of the kingdom.
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