Caro Stamm-ReuschJul 8, 2023
@Wayne_Murillo The #Radch trilogy is one if my favorite SciFi book series! Fun fact: There us a hint to #SacredHarp singing hidden in the story, and I know a couple of #shapenote singers who found out about if this way.
I also highly recommend #AnnLeckie’s #TheRavenTower. Different pace, different setting, but similar poetic approach, and the #gender topic also plays a role. Amazing book, it also reminded me a lot of #KazuoIshiguro’s #TheBuriedGiant.
Ontploffing BoerDec 5, 2020
And since I'm crossposting Tumblr stuff here, have a post about a #headcanon for a shared architecture of the Imperial #Radch spaceship fleet and space station construction, as depicted in Ann Leckie's Ancillary trilogy:
https://irradiate-space.tumblr.com/post/636442851763486720/headcanon-about-spaceship-and-space-station #worldbuilding
Today is the day to plan world optimization.

Saying that the points made don’t matter isn’t a counterpoint; it’s a dismissal. As you were. This headcanon was brought to you in part by thinking about the things that Ann Leckie did note about the...

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Mara, Technopact WarlockJan 19, 2018

I figured out how to summarize a discussion we had a while back

I prefer the #Radch to the #Culture because the Radch has culture.

that is, both are massive imperial societies with a complacent core and an expanding, appropriative edge. But in the Radch, there's still a sense that people believe in something, or at least have forgotten that the soap operas repeat every millennium or so.