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Jules 
A lot of this hybrid lately! I've enjoyed Mary Robinette Kowal's #TheSpareMan, CL Polk's #EvenThoughIKnewTheEnd, Mur Lafferty's #StationEternity. I hear the new novella by Arkady Martine, #RoseHouse also fits this subgenre.
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A lot of this hybrid lately! I've enjoyed Mary Robinette Kowal's #TheSpareMan, CL Polk's #EvenThoughIKnewTheEnd, Mur Lafferty's #StationEternity. I hear the new novella by Arkady Martine, #RoseHouse also fits this subgenre.
A lot of this hybrid lately! I've enjoyed Mary Robinette Kowal's #TheSpareMan, CL Polk's #EvenThoughIKnewTheEnd, Mur Lafferty's #StationEternity. I hear the new novella by Arkady Martine, #RoseHouse also fits this subgenre.
Evelyn C. LeeperMT VOID #2267: Comments on #synchronicity; film reviews of #TheBansheesOfInisherin #RaymondAndRay #Vengeance; book reviews of #TheSpareMan #MaryRobinetteKowal, #WhatIsArt #LeoTolstoy, #AnExperimentInCriticism #CSLewis, #OnMoralFiction #JohnGardner at http://leepers.us/mtvoid/VOID00317.htm from @eleeper and #MarkRLeeper
Prof. Julia Leyda@ms_o @bookstodon #TheSpareMan has a protagonist with physical and psychological disabilities. It's a kind of noir mystery in space.
JulesI think apart from #TheSpareMan , all #SF I've read this year has programmable matter and nanobots. In a very similar way. Huh.
Another thought about #TheSpareMan by @maryrobinette, inspired by @catrinity:
Tesla Crane reminded me a bit of a type of female character William Gibson likes to write: young, beautiful, with some expertise, but also very very vulnerable because of past trauma (think Flynne in "The Peripheral" or Cayce in "Pattern Recognition"). They are nominally main characters, but only accomplish stuff because all male characters enable them to do so.
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After loving the #LadyAstronaut books, of course I had to read #TheSpareMan by Mary Robinette Kowal as well.
There's much to like about it: a SF mystery plot on a cruise space ship bound for Mars, where both recycling and different spin gravity levels play a role. A gender-neutral society where everyone's introduced with their pronouns and all physical characteristics (white, bald, fat, athletic, blue-haired...) are equally neutrally described. Recurring pub quiz trivia questions.
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RicardoI said goodbye to 2022 with a space murder mystery and stuck with the genre for my first book of 2023: @maryrobinette 's delightful The Spare Man! Was expecting some light-hearted, feel-good romp so the body count took me by surprise! 
Loved everything about #TheSpareMan but I'll note the entertaining characters, the most loveable dog ever committed to paper, and the obvious care and attention put into matters of diversity, inclusion and sensitivity.
Mary Robinette KowalIt's awards eligibility season. I published two things this year. One is the novel, #TheSpareMan and another is a picture book #MollyOnTheMoon.
I have a little bit forgotten how to do this, because the last 2 years I've been quiet about eligibility because I was either running #SFWA or a #Worldcon.
Anyway, here's my post about this.
https://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/2022-hugo-awards-im-eligible-2/
C. L. Polk#readers - what are you admiring about the book you are reading right now? fiction, nonfiction, or poetry
I'll go first.
I'm partway through #TheSpareMan by @maryrobinette and the protagonist has a Significant Past Event. I finally found out what it was.
reader, I hurt. I hurt in my heart. oh gosh.