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Lynette

11 months ago

Lynette
11 months ago

I'm in a reading slump. Anyone have any suggestions in the genres of fantasy, scifi, or I'd even switch it up with a good mystery. No romantacy, please. #Bookstodon #books #reading #scifi #fantasy #mystery #detective

#Fantasy #SciFi #Mystery #books #bookstodon #reading #detective

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Solvei Blue

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Allow me to suggest something with a touch of both: Cahokia Jazz, by Francis Spufford. Noir detective story set in an alternate historical north america where Cahokia is the biggest city in the Mississippi basin north of New Orleans (St Louis is a nearby backwater village), 1920s Hollywood is (I think) Spanish territory, and Alaska is home to White Russians fleeing the revolution. Just the right amount of action, poetry, and romance. In that order.

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in reply to Lynette 11 months ago

one scifi book I've read this year that I’m recommending to all that ask: “The Space Between Worlds” by Micaiah Johnson. There is a bit of romantic tension, but it's not obvious where it's going, and it's not the main thread of the book.

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Lynette

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@dasparky Love that book! I read it a few years ago. I wonder if there is going to be a sequel or is it just a standalone novel.

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Goose goes Grrr

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There is a sequel! “Those Beyond the Wall”.

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Lynette

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@dasparky Excellent! Maybe I will do a re-read since it’s been a few years, and then I will read the sequel.

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Tero Ykspetäjä

in reply to Lynette 11 months ago

Haven’t gotten to it yet myself, but The Ministry of Time is a recent book I’ve heard lots of praise for. Maybe something like that would hit the spot?

theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley review – a seriously fun sci-fi romcom

A bureaucrat in near-future London finds love with a Victorian Arctic explorer in a thrilling debut that takes a deep dive into human morality

^{Ella Risbridger (The Guardian)}

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Lynette

in reply to Tero Ykspetäjä 11 months ago

@tero Thank you that sounds familiar. I don’t think I have read it though, but I may have found it on Audible and put it on my wish list.

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Liz

in reply to Lynette 11 months ago (Received 10 months ago)

Personally, the Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor, while maybe not exactly the most ambitious literature, were very fun and easy to read. I don't think I breezed through a book like that since I was in primary school. Perhaps it might help you out of the slump?

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Lynette

in reply to Liz 11 months ago

@AngelicAura You’re the second person to recommend those books to me. 😊 and I know I have listened to previews on Audible. They do sound like a lot of fun.

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jendefer

in reply to Lynette 11 months ago (Received 10 months ago)

Have you read the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells?

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Lynette

in reply to jendefer 11 months ago

@jendefer No I have not. I will add to my to Read list though. I’ve gotten lots of good recommendations for mastodon, this should definitely get me out of my reading slump.

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Fred Johansen

in reply to Lynette 11 months ago (Received 10 months ago)

Have you read Asimov's Caves of Steel? It's an actual scifi mystery.

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Lynette

in reply to Fred Johansen 11 months ago

@FredJohansen Yes I have. I haven’t read all the books in the series though, just the first one. Maybe I will finish it. It’s really interesting reading the sci-fi of today and the sci-fi that Asimov wrote. You can definitely tell it’s influenced by the time and the culture it’s written in.

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Jim O'Neill

in reply to Lynette 10 months ago

Anything by David weber, Robert heinlein, John Ringo David Drake Its hard because I do not know what or who you like.

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