in case you needed a reason to volunteer at your local public library: today the librarians let me pick a theme for and then curate one of the featured displays.
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update: the library director was in today and showed me his secret space opera hoard. new additions to the list:
* August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, Alex White
* You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo(haven’t read yet, but he highly recommends)
he also had two of the books i’d been wanting to include in the display!
* The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
* Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
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@molly0xfff ooh, new space opera for me!
Because someone said the words, I'll recommend my favorite space opera: The Hellflower trilogy by Eluki Bes Shahar (or Bes'Shahar or Bes-Shahar; I've seen it spelled all those ways).
Elevator pitch: Han Solo as a world-weary, nonwhite middle-aged woman eking out a living after escaping oppression. She ends up entwined (not like that) with a young, naive, confused (because events) super-assasin-type guy from a super-assassin-type genetically engineered lineage. She tries to keep his culture of honor and temper from getting him (and her) killed. Also she is carrying around a piece of "pain-of-death-illegal" tech from the Before Times.
Bes-Shahar created an entire slang/dialect for her main character, and everything is in first person, so there's a little learning curve. It's worth it!
The slang/dialect feels a lot like 1930s gangster-speak sometimes, but you gotta believe me it works.
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@molly0xfff Total agreement! Are you a fan of Black Jack? Dauntless by Jack Campbell has the fastest take-off of any book I have ever read.
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@Spark44029 haven’t read it!
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@molly0xfff I didn’t see it on the original list you posted, but is Catherynne Valente’s “Space Opera” anywhere on there? https://everybookadoorway.com/glitter-is-punk-actually-space-opera-by-catherynne-m-valente/
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btw if you thought this was a list of only 20 or so books, i failed to mention that almost every one is the first in a series. you’ve got 100+ books here
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@guyjantic strong pitch
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@GrumpusNation haven’t read it yet but the blurb sounds incredible
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I suspect "The Interdependency" and Delany's "Nova" have nothing to do with each other. Two entries might have been conflated into one?
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@glitzersachen oop, fixed
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@molly0xfff I particularly respect inclusion of "alt text cont'd."
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@deFractal @molly0xfff what is this secret meaning
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@chaosresearchparty “alt text continued”. the image is just a placeholder to make space for alt text from the first image that was too long to fit in the character limit
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@molly0xfff i enjoyed the Algebraist. Wish you enjoy it too
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@molly0xfff Unfortunately, The Algebraist is not available in the states due to some publisher issue
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@dprice hmm? i had no problem getting a copy
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@molly0xfff Weird. The Amazon web site said it was unavailable but I was able to buy it on my Kindle after downloading a sample
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@dprice strange!
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Could these bright white images just be text?
I can't read the small black on white text on my narrow screen. Even the bright white hurts my eyes just scrolling through my feed. I would prefer to use my own text theme.
Since you are nicely doing alt text anyway the images are really redundant.
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@sab38 the link to the original post is upthread and my site has dark mode
