AUTHOR: Max Gladstone TITLE(S):Three Parts Dead and Two Serpents Rise ABOUT: Alternate world fantasy where law is practiced through magic and the manipulation of divine power. Killer worldbuilding, diverse casts that are not all white dudes, and great stories.
AUTHOR: Kameron Hurley TITLE(S): The Bel Dame Apocrypha ABOUT: Imaginative and violent "crapsack world" SF with great characters.
AUTHOR: Saladin Ahmed TITLE(S): Throne of the Crescent Moon ABOUT: Fantasy that uses the Middle East as its basis rather than pseudomedieval Europe.
AUTHOR: Iain M. Banks TITLE(S): The Culture series; start with Player of Games ABOUT: One of the great SF writers of our time gone far too soon; all his stuff is quite good, but he's most famous for the Culture books, which focus on a utopian spacefaring civilisation that does not believe in the Prime Directive.
AUTHOR: Lauren Beukes TITLE(S): Zoo City ABOUT: Fabulous urban fantasy set in South Africa, where people who commit serious crimes gain an animal familiar.
AUTHOR: Jasper Fforde TITLE(S): Shades of Grey (not Fifty) ABOUT: Dark-humoured dystopian SF about a depopulated future world where one's social status is determined by one's colour vision.
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TITLE(S): Three Parts Dead and Two Serpents Rise
ABOUT: Alternate world fantasy where law is practiced through magic and the manipulation of divine power. Killer worldbuilding, diverse casts that are not all white dudes, and great stories.
AUTHOR: Kameron Hurley
TITLE(S): The Bel Dame Apocrypha
ABOUT: Imaginative and violent "crapsack world" SF with great characters.
AUTHOR: Saladin Ahmed
TITLE(S): Throne of the Crescent Moon
ABOUT: Fantasy that uses the Middle East as its basis rather than pseudomedieval Europe.
AUTHOR: Iain M. Banks
TITLE(S): The Culture series; start with Player of Games
ABOUT: One of the great SF writers of our time gone far too soon; all his stuff is quite good, but he's most famous for the Culture books, which focus on a utopian spacefaring civilisation that does not believe in the Prime Directive.
AUTHOR: Lauren Beukes
TITLE(S): Zoo City
ABOUT: Fabulous urban fantasy set in South Africa, where people who commit serious crimes gain an animal familiar.
AUTHOR: Jasper Fforde
TITLE(S): Shades of Grey (not Fifty)
ABOUT: Dark-humoured dystopian SF about a depopulated future world where one's social status is determined by one's colour vision.