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Favorite read of the year? Favorite recently discovered author? Recent book surprisingly made you DNF? (lemmy.ml)
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I tore through The Faith of Beasts by JSAC, really loving the new universe they've developed. Very much looking forward to rereading TMoG, Livesuit and TFoB very soon and the show being developed.

I'm reading book 4, Children of Strife by Tchaikovsky and enjoying it thoroughly. AT has been my favorite contemporary author for the last few years based on how wide-ranging and prolific he is. I discovered AT by reading The Final Architecture series, which is still my favorite series by him. Honorable mention is his Dogs of War series, also amazing.

Last year I discovered China Mieville by reading Embassytown, the mindfuck storytelling and intelligent prose blew me away. That book still haunts me and twists my brain almost a year after reading it. I've never had a book that still makes me think and feel strange months after finishing it. Perdido Street Station was also amazing, super fun and original steampunk world. Very much looking forward reading the next two in that series and digesting more of his catalogue, I think he's my new favorite.

Also recently read The Prefect by Alaistar Reynolds, set in the Revelation Space universe and it's also fantastic, really good stuff. Stoked to finish the series.

As far DNF I was surprised I couldn't push through The Algerbraist by Iain Banks, I got bogged down in Jupiter just couldn't keep at it.

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[–] Aberration13@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

FoB?

Livesuit was great, really looking forward to TFOB, probably gonna read it in a week or two.

Just started Platform Decay, found out it came out just recently when it showed up on libby and immediately downloaded it so probably that one. I really like the whole Murderbot Diaries series.

[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I enjoyed The Murderbot Diaries more than I anticipated, haven't read Platform Decay yet but will soon.

Have you seen the show? I was a bit ;let down by it but still hopeful for what they could do.

[–] Aberration13@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Same, it was fun, but that was really it, they went campy and the books aren't really campy, i would have liked an adaptation that stayed true to the vibe of the books but overall it wasn't bad or anything, just not what it could have been.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I tried to watch the show but I kept seeing it as corporate rendition of the story, which is exactly what it is.