Katharina Debus
CavyherdNeed some recs for Becky Chambers–adjacent authors, please
Oh, yum, looks like my library has a bunch of these. 🎉
Okay, that's confusing. I'd somehow misremembered The Goblin Emperor as by Victoria Goddard. No wonder my search results were making no sense!
Naomi P@cavyherd Victoria Goddard has a book with a similar title, so I could see mixing them up pretty easily.
Oh good it's not just me! Whew! 😂
@cavyherd it’s better than the time I used the wrong title for Witness for the Dead, which is not called Speaker for the Dead. 😬
Oops! Yeah, 😬, indeed!
CornOnTheGob@cavyherd
About that goblin book,
are goblins a prominent feature in it?
I'm... asking for a friend.
<.<
About that goblin book,
are goblins a prominent feature in it?
I'm... asking for a friend.
<.<
IIRC, The Goblin Emperor him(?)self is half-Goblin.
OliverUv@cavyherd I love both Chambers and Victoria Goddard for the same reasons. I'd recommend starting with The Hands of the Emperor.
Oh!! Also, Julie Leong's The Teller of Small Fortunes. It's not as long and involved as Goddard's book.
Another excellent book by Goddard, which isn't part of a series and is a bit more approachable, is The Bone Harp. Very very good book.
Oh, right! I'd forgotten there was more in Goddard's series!
(have already read Hands of the Emperor 😢). Gonna try Petty Treasons 😊
@cavyherd that one is super nice! There's a good reading order graphic on the wiki (no spoilers in the graphic)
https://nineworlds.miraheze.org/wiki/Reading_Order
I read the Red Company Reformed books and the Lay short stories before I finally read At the Feet of the Sun, and am *very* happy with that experience
Oh, this is marvelous, thank you!
Tak!@cavyherd
Yume Kitasei, Veo Corva
Yume Kitasei, Veo Corva
Will be checking these out, thanks for the recc!
Tom HarringtonOh! Since I'm not on Xitter anymore, I forgot about her. Thanks!
Nyx Mir@cavyherd I’ve only read her Singing Hills cycle books, but Nghi Vo hits a similar place in my heart—beautifully crafted, small and hopeful yet deep.
It’s also tonally a bit darker , the humanity and humor of Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries resonates as a compliment to Becky Chambers—they’re both comfort reads for me.
@cavyherd one more, that’s maybe unexpected, K. o’Neil’s comics. They’re children’s comics, but the world building, representation, hope, and thoughtfulness… I can’t get enough. They transcend age and page the way some truly good stories do
Sadly, between aging vision & other perceptual issues, comics are largely inaccessible to me 😢
I might check them out anyway...?
Have read all of Murderbot 😢 (I •might• have missed one? I should double-check....)
Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶@cavyherd @alicemcalicepants
Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries
Suzanne Palmer's Finder Chronicles
Lena Nguyen's We Have Always Been Here
Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries
Suzanne Palmer's Finder Chronicles
Lena Nguyen's We Have Always Been Here
Oh, thank you! Murderbot I've read, but not familiar with the other two. Adding them to the list.
VK Nask@cavyherd as others have mentioned they're different but they're all my favorites and comfort rereads for me, in addition to Becky Chambers' Wayfarer series so maybe you'll like them too:
Martha Wells - Murderbot series
Nghi Vo - Singing Hills Cycle
P. Djeli Clark - Dead Djinn in Cairo series
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - This Is How You Lose the Time War
Also all have worked with TorDotCom Publishing, and I've subscribed to their newsletter for new releases because I've generally found I like their books.
Thanks for the thread! I've enjoyed seeing all the other recommendations and have added new things to my TBR list.
Yes! My TBR pile has grown quite robust also!
Justin 😸@cavyherd thanks for this thread. Reading the latest in Wayfarers right now and will check out others folks have posted!
😊 Happy to be of service!
JariKakela@cavyherd Sarah Pinsker: A Song for a New Day. Not sure if this would fit what you’re looking for: set firmly on earth and quite minimally science-fictional. But to me it has a very similar hopeful ethos as Chambers: a tiny but inclusive community, with kindness surviving against the exploitative mainstream and building something better.
Actually, near-RL is a genre I enjoy, so I will definitely add that to the list!
@cavyherd cool! Also Pinsker’s other novels have something of a similar ethos (We Are Satellites perhaps more so, Haunt Sweet Home is more horror-adjacent although even there with emphasis on empathy etc.), but her debut is a great place to start!
Good to know, thank you!