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Computer update, for those who care: it's still somewhere in the bowels of FedEx, and supposedly will be delivered to a facility near me tomorrow. Maybe. I think the computer gods are trying to tell me something, really.
Anyway, I am once again asking my flist for suggestions, this time for sci-fi and fantasy novel recommendations, since I have to put something on my amazon wishlist under $50 for a family gift exchange, and I don't honestly have any good ideas, since when I see a novel I want to read I either buy it or get it at the library. So--read anything good lately?
(I already have the latest two Connie Willis books, and I'm not getting the new Robin McKinley, since I've heard it ends on a cliffhanger and she never does write sequels of things. That pretty much exhausts my knowledge of "recent things I'd want to read in scifi/fantasy.")
Anyway, I am once again asking my flist for suggestions, this time for sci-fi and fantasy novel recommendations, since I have to put something on my amazon wishlist under $50 for a family gift exchange, and I don't honestly have any good ideas, since when I see a novel I want to read I either buy it or get it at the library. So--read anything good lately?
(I already have the latest two Connie Willis books, and I'm not getting the new Robin McKinley, since I've heard it ends on a cliffhanger and she never does write sequels of things. That pretty much exhausts my knowledge of "recent things I'd want to read in scifi/fantasy.")
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The best I've read is definitely Patrick Ness's 'Chaos Walking' series (sci-fi, kinda postcolonial themes?). So amazing, so thinky, sparked a 12 hour discussion about psychology and war with
In the more escapist realm, I have really enjoyed 'Graceling' and 'Fire' by Kristin Cashore--both fantasy novels in related universes, featuring very strong heroines and page-turny writing. Great holiday reads. :)
There's the Hunger Games series too of course. :) I'm not as crazy about them as many people but I did enjoy them and the concept behind them (televised blood sport in the future, as a kind of extension of our reality TV culture) was interesting. Again, heroine is unusually strong (though not unproblematic for me personally).
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