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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9322896" data-attributes="member: 7035894">I recently read Jessica Johns' Bad Cree. It's a page-turner - easy read with a compelling narrative voice. Imagine Supernatural (the TV show) but with a cast of all First Nations women. I think this is Johns' first novel, so I'll be looking for more from her.I also read Arkady Martine's A Desolation Called Peace, the sequel to A Memory Called Empire. She's a great writer! Like so much of contemporary SF, these books are centred on identity, in this case the implications of a technology that allows people to upload the memories and, to some extent, personalities of their predecessors. At the same time, though, it is also about the dynastic politics of an interstellar empire, and (in the second book) the conflict with a radically distinct alien race. So it does an amazing job of fusing the protagonist's inner conflict with a plot that invokes classic space opera tropes.I don't think I'm explaining it super well. Think of it as kind of like if William Gibson wrote Foundation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9322896, member: 7035894"] I recently read Jessica Johns' [I]Bad Cree[/I]. It's a page-turner - easy read with a compelling narrative voice. Imagine [I]Supernatural[/I] (the TV show) but with a cast of all First Nations women. I think this is Johns' first novel, so I'll be looking for more from her. I also read Arkady Martine's [I]A Desolation Called Peace,[/I] the sequel to [I]A Memory Called Empire[/I]. She's a great writer! Like so much of contemporary SF, these books are centred on identity, in this case the implications of a technology that allows people to upload the memories and, to some extent, personalities of their predecessors. At the same time, though, it is also about the dynastic politics of an interstellar empire, and (in the second book) the conflict with a radically distinct alien race. So it does an amazing job of fusing the protagonist's inner conflict with a plot that invokes classic space opera tropes. I don't think I'm explaining it super well. Think of it as kind of like if William Gibson wrote [I]Foundation[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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