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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9553118" data-attributes="member: 78087">Have now finished Long Live Evil, which was pretty great, and am halfway into Buried Deep and Other Stories, a collection of short stories by Naomi Novik. Just finished Seven Years from Home, which is something of a departure for Novik, being biotech sci-fi about colonialism.It reminds me of Adrian Tchaikovsky, and that reminds me of another book I’ve read this year, which is Alien Clay by that author. It’s very Tchaikovsky in that it starts very much as a dystopia (political prisoners on a gulag planet in a human galaxy dominated by a totalitarian government, very Ivan Denisovich) but moves towards the virtues of cooperation and mutual acceptance, which is almost utopian (or at least hoping for utopia) with a solid dollop of body horror along the way. Not to everyone’s taste, but recommended.</blockquote>