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<blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 9113741" data-attributes="member: 99786"><p>Boy - lots of arguments about Dune here. Suffice it to say my perspective is that "best" is subjective for each person, and to try to defend whether something is "best" seems like a fools errand (and also makes up about 90% of the traffic on the internet <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite18" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL :ROFLMAO:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /> )</p><p></p><p>About 5-7 years ago I stopped reading books published before 1980. The casual racism, heteronormativity, and sexism; and the centering of the white male experience got sort of tiring for me. I can acknowledge that those books are/were "good" books, but as we've said through the course of this thread - "a product of their time". It's funny, the classic books that hold up better for me are the ones by non-dudes; like LeGuin and Butler. (Note, Andre Norton does not hold up sadly...)</p><p></p><p>All of which is prelude to help explicate my list below. I am only including books not yet mentioned so far in this thread (as far as I could see)</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Lois McMaster Bujold <em>Shards of Honor</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Octavia Butler <em>Parable of the Sower</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><s>NK Jemisin <em>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms</em> (I just really liked the Inheritance Trilogy more than Broken Earth) Also, is this series FANTASY?!?</s></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">CJ Cherryh <em>Pride of Chanur</em> (followed closely by <em>Downbelow Station</em>)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Martha Wells <em>Network Effect</em> (very hard to pick one of them)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Becky Chambers <em>Prayer for the Crown-shy</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Tamsyn Muir <em>Nona the Ninth</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">David Brin <em>The Uplift War</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples <em>Saga Vol 1</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Paolo Bacigalupi <em>The Windup Girl</em></li> </ol><p>Of all of these, if I had to pick the one book that is my favorite (aka, my "BEST") it's probably <em>Shards of Honor</em> by Bujold<em>.</em> The whole series is amazing, certainly the first 10 volumes or so<em>.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eyes of Nine, post: 9113741, member: 99786"] Boy - lots of arguments about Dune here. Suffice it to say my perspective is that "best" is subjective for each person, and to try to defend whether something is "best" seems like a fools errand (and also makes up about 90% of the traffic on the internet :ROFLMAO: ) About 5-7 years ago I stopped reading books published before 1980. The casual racism, heteronormativity, and sexism; and the centering of the white male experience got sort of tiring for me. I can acknowledge that those books are/were "good" books, but as we've said through the course of this thread - "a product of their time". It's funny, the classic books that hold up better for me are the ones by non-dudes; like LeGuin and Butler. (Note, Andre Norton does not hold up sadly...) All of which is prelude to help explicate my list below. I am only including books not yet mentioned so far in this thread (as far as I could see) [LIST=1] [*]Lois McMaster Bujold [I]Shards of Honor[/I] [*]Octavia Butler [I]Parable of the Sower[/I] [*][S]NK Jemisin [I]The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms[/I] (I just really liked the Inheritance Trilogy more than Broken Earth) Also, is this series FANTASY?!?[/S] [*]CJ Cherryh [I]Pride of Chanur[/I] (followed closely by [I]Downbelow Station[/I]) [*]Martha Wells [I]Network Effect[/I] (very hard to pick one of them) [*]Becky Chambers [I]Prayer for the Crown-shy[/I] [*]Tamsyn Muir [I]Nona the Ninth[/I] [*]David Brin [I]The Uplift War[/I] [*]Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples [I]Saga Vol 1[/I] [*]Paolo Bacigalupi [I]The Windup Girl[/I] [/LIST] Of all of these, if I had to pick the one book that is my favorite (aka, my "BEST") it's probably [I]Shards of Honor[/I] by Bujold[I].[/I] The whole series is amazing, certainly the first 10 volumes or so[I].[/I] [/QUOTE]
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