RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116290338892571761
🤦🏿♂️Actually, nevermind.
Why is everything like this?
The author supposedly went on an anti-woke, right-wing podcast to promote the movie while trashing other books and movies that do have a "woke" message or that have inclusive representation? But... why?
Why was that necessary?
@mekkaokereke Ugh, that is so disappointing. I broke a 2-year streak of “only books not written by cis het white dudes” to read PHM.
Got tons of great recommendations for you though! Anything by Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler (the Xenogenesis trilogy is my personal fave), Becky Chambers, Annalee Newitz, Nnedi Okorafor, Charlie Jane Anders (esp. The City in the Middle of the Night). RF Kuang’s “Babel” is more fantasy than SF but it’s anticolonial and brilliant.
Sheesh. That's deflating. I'm on page 304.
@otherthings @mekkaokereke agreed on all these, plus Sheri S Tepper, who seems to have forgotten by the industry. Grass and Gibbon’s Decline and Fall are great.
I’m curious on your RF Kuong recommendation, though. I read the Poppy War, which ended in (spoiler alert) a pretty unapologetic genocide. I was unwilling to let my kids read it, or read anything else by her.
Did I read it wrong? Did she manage to, I don’t know, rectify that (if such a thing is possible) in later books?
I haven't read any of her other books, but afaict "Babel" is not a continuation of any other story. I'd characterize it as hard-fantasy (if that's a thing). The magic system is inextricably tied to colonialism, and all the characters are flawed and ethically complex, so don't expect easy answers for sure.
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