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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 19:17:16 JST goatsarah

   I am a fan of British sci fi author, Peter Hamilton.

   One trope he consistently returns to in his universes is the group of humans who buggered off somewhere to try to build a post scarcity society of some kind.

   And each new iteration, it feels like the seed group gets closer and closer to a transsexual polycule.

   And I’m utterly here for it.

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     Nile (hairyears@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 22:24:49 JST Nile

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     He sets his books in parts of Leicestershire and Rutland where, as an uneasy adolescent, I cycled for pleasure and peaceful hours.

     Some of his stories are set there directly: some of them borrow the place names; and some of them have sly little hints that put me back in a particular lane or copse or village, with the realisation "Oh, it's *there*" which makes me smile, remembering.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 22:28:20 JST goatsarah

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     @godzero Commonwealth Saga (Pandora's Star), or the Salvation trilogy (which is my favourite, but opinions differ).

     Lots of people like the Night's Dawn trilogy, but it's early work and I think he concentrates on world building at the expense of plot there.

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     gz (godzero@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 22:28:21 JST gz

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     I'm not familiar with his work but it sounds really interesting. Any suggestions where to start?

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     Cheryl Morgan (cherylmorgan@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 22:31:28 JST Cheryl Morgan

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     @goatsarah he does know a few of us…

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