Recent reading
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luzulaGreen Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Reread. This is just as good as I remember it! I love all the social movement bits, and I think it does a good job of showing how the First Hundred change as they grow older with the longevity treatment. Sax especially has some interesting character development, I think. And the setting is so good--it feels like such a real and complicated world.
The Women of Mandrigyn by Barbara Hambly
I doubted my choice of reading in the beginning because one of the main characters is a mercenary captain who buys a sixteen-year-old slave girl as a concubine. /o\ But I stuck to it since this was recced by Jo Walton at some point. So basically that main character is kidnapped by a bunch of women and forced to teach them the arts of war, because the men in their town have been taken captive. Also the concubine does get her own story and her own choices. This book is a bit more sword-and-sorcery than the fantasy I usually read, but hey, I enjoyed it.
Reread. This is just as good as I remember it! I love all the social movement bits, and I think it does a good job of showing how the First Hundred change as they grow older with the longevity treatment. Sax especially has some interesting character development, I think. And the setting is so good--it feels like such a real and complicated world.
The Women of Mandrigyn by Barbara Hambly
I doubted my choice of reading in the beginning because one of the main characters is a mercenary captain who buys a sixteen-year-old slave girl as a concubine. /o\ But I stuck to it since this was recced by Jo Walton at some point. So basically that main character is kidnapped by a bunch of women and forced to teach them the arts of war, because the men in their town have been taken captive. Also the concubine does get her own story and her own choices. This book is a bit more sword-and-sorcery than the fantasy I usually read, but hey, I enjoyed it.
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