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Ana HevesiI’ve fallen in love with Becky Chambers’ work this year and have very nearly chewed through every book there is.
If I’m a fan of Chambers, what do I read next? I am about to enter withdrawal, please send help.
josh's harp@anthrocypher The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin if you haven't already!
The Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie is very good and has some crossover in vibe and themes.
Ted Mielczarek@Joshsharp @anthrocypher I haven't read Becky Chambers but I love Ann Leckie so I guess I should…
SarahATX@Joshsharp @anthrocypher came here to recommend Ann Leckie also!
@purplelotus13 @Joshsharp The Imperial Radch series is 🔥
Canageek@anthrocypher personally, I associate that style of very sharp, well-written dialogue and very human stakes with Murderbot, with the caveat then Murderbot is much more action-oriented in summer if there later short stories and novels
@Canageek mmm thank you, I’ve been meaning to get to Murderbot
Alex, the Hearth Fire@anthrocypher gonna make sure you've read the Monk and Robot books first, because A Psalm for the Wild-Built is easily the best thing she's written.
Also highly recommend:
- The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (she has other very good books but they're much more violent)
- C. J. Cherryh's Chanur Saga (and possibly her Foreigner series, but the first few are very 90s in their politics)
- The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard (warning: doorstopper)
@WizardOfDocs I have indeed read Monk and Robot
…But I’ve read exactly none of the rest of the rest (and a good doorstopper might be just what the doctor ordered)! Tysm 😃
@anthrocypher also, from me and @Canageek : the Liaden series
Recommended reading order from my old blog: https://theunderlinguist.blogspot.com/2018/01/on-books-8-reading-order-for-liaden.html
Twenty Twenty Sixhorns@anthrocypher maybe now is time to dive into the White Space novels, by Elizabeth Bear!
@jacel ooh not familiar, I will look into them!
@anthrocypher particularly good for a couple of reasons, the key among them being their interaction with the Jacob's Ladder series, which is a far future medieval techno-fantasy set on a giant shipwrecked generation ship.
The two series represent a split in humanity - those that fled the solar system on said generation ship(s) before an oncoming disaster, and those who didn't... But who were contacted by a galactic metacivilisation shortly after.
Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶@anthrocypher @troublewithwords
Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire and sequel.
John Scalzi's Interdependency Series.
Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries
Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire and sequel.
John Scalzi's Interdependency Series.
Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries
Cassey Lottman@anthrocypher seconding all of Murderbot by Martha Wells.
Legends & Lattes (and it has a sequel, too!) is pretty nice too, not as good as Murderbot imo but lots of friendship and cozy world settings.
May Keable 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@cassey @anthrocypher I would also nominate Can't Spell Treason without Tea.
philosophizes whilst swimming@anthrocypher Nicola Griffith. SciFi is great (Ammonite, Slow River), but contemporary "detective" (the Aud Torvingen trilogy) and her medieval Britain books (Hild, Menewood) are superb.
Willow (she/her)@anthrocypher Almost everyone I know went from Chambers to Murderbot by Martha Wells, or the other way around.
Despite being wildly different there's an energy and vibe that is the same.
consumableJoy@MsHearthWitch @anthrocypher Hey I did that! Chambers to Murderbot
aoanla@consumablejoy @MsHearthWitch @anthrocypher I find this fascinating, in that I am someone who was deeply annoyed by "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet", but mostly really like Murderbot (although I prefer the earlier stories to the more recent ones)
@consumablejoy @aoanla @anthrocypher Oh I loved her Wayfarer Series!!
For my Chambers' books (all that I've read thusfar) were and are exactly the kind of escapism I need right now.
Janice in GA@aoanla @consumablejoy @MsHearthWitch @anthrocypher I’m another that wasn’t crazy abt LWtaSAP but loved Murderbot right away. I can say tho that i think Chambers gets better as she goes. Record of a Spacebound Few was lovely. To Be Taught, If Fortuate, also good & thoughtful. Monk & Robot, very good. Oh
Greg Wilson@anthrocypher have you read @swantower.bsky.social 's Lady Trent series?
Sean Purcell (he/him)@anthrocypher I followed up "A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" with "Legends and Lattes" by Travis Baldree. It was lovely. (But you kinda have to be into the high fantasy genre.)
clewThe Unspoken Name and its sequel
KeladryStan 
@anthrocypher you might try Lois McMaster Bujold—she writes both sci-fi and fantasy, and she has some novellas of you want to taste writing style
Melissa@anthrocypher
see also that LONG thread for @skinnylatte ...
and in this thread YAY @undead for mentioning Mur Lafferty!!
see also that LONG thread for @skinnylatte ...
and in this thread YAY @undead for mentioning Mur Lafferty!!
Dan Morgan 
Clinton@anthrocypher Discworld, almost anything from Ursula K. Le Guin, or almost anything from John Scalzi had similar brain feel, and often hopeful endings.
Benjamin@anthrocypher Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series. It starts with Every Heart A Doorway. It is definitely not quite as cozy as Chambers but it definitely has a lot of cozy mixed into the more spooky bits.