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swodinsky Ah, my obsession with tech and storytelling def came from obsessive reading of game manuals, especially Diablo, Homewood and Star Trek Armada. All sorts of fun ways narrative can get to us! I see others have already recommended some of my usually, but I'll add Magic for Liars
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swodinsky *lol Homeworld The original has one of the best game manuals ever written
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swodinsky - The New World, comic by Ales Kot - Die, comic by Kieron Gillen - Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series starting with The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Exit West All great! I've been reading a lot of non fiction too lately and also trying new things that haven't quite clicked.
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swodinsky So, not sure I can recommend these but you might like them more than I: Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys was fascinating in plot & ideas, it's rewriting the Lovecraft universe w/an eye towards escaping Lovecraft's hatefulness. I liked everything but the writing, which felt plodding
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swodinsky The Last Sun by K. D. Edwards. Queer tarot-themed wizards cast magic with jewelry (not making fun, that's what it is!). It had interesting ideas and good energy, but sags in the middle trying to make itself a mystery and has an unnecessary portrayal of sexual assault imo.
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swodinsky The Hollows series by Kim Harrison is (on book 3) thus far well written, female led urban fantasy. But everyone is so so horney. I'm trying to give this a chance because I find the setting interesting, but I'm just not that into it's tone.
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swodinsky The Children of Time, series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Interesting SF pretty different from other stuff I've read by diving into uplifting animal species. But, the author has spent a little too much time researching the animals involved and spends too many pages knowledge dumping.
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swodinsky Last First Snow. Book 4 of Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence, where wizards free themselves from gods by becoming lawyers. Interesting ideas, but the series is super inconsistent, some of the books are unreadable & they don't need to be read in order. This one is imo the best.
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swodinsky As final recommendation, if you haven't read it, my fav hard SF novel: Permanence by Karl Schroeder. I cannot recommend that one enough!
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