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. time to get this town reading more space operas! my picks, if you want to read along: All Systems Red, Martha Wells Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi Empire of Silence, Christopher Ruocchio Foundation, Isaac Asimov Leviathan Wakes, James A. Corey Olympios, Dan Simmons Saga (graphic novel), Brian K. Vaughan Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky The Stars are Legion, Kameron Hurley The Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin was working with a somewhat limited selection, or else I’d have tucked in some others: The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks (this is my current read!) Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee Nova, Samuel R. Delaney Pandora’s Star, Peter F. Hamilton Revelation Space, Alistair Reynolds Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Dennis E. Taylor (I haven’t read all these, but the ones I haven’t are all on my to-read!)
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