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Science Fiction About Work, Debt and Getting By in the Future

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Space Operas With Crews Worth Staying With
Space Operas With Crews Worth Staying With
by book_guy  • 
4 in common: Merchanter's Luck (Alliance-Union Universe), Trading in Danger (Vatta's War) and 2 more
A ship is a workplace, a home and a collection of people who may have very different ideas about both. These space operas make the crew's relationships matter to the voyage: engineers and pilots...
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Cyberpunk That Looks Beyond Neon and Rain
Cyberpunk That Looks Beyond Neon and Rain
by book_guy  • 
3 in common: Company Town, Autonomous and 1 more
Cyberpunk becomes more interesting when the network has owners, the modified body needs upkeep and someone has to do the work behind a seamless interface. These books follow those pressures...
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Science Fiction for Readers Who Usually Prefer Realism
Science Fiction for Readers Who Usually Prefer Realism
by book_guy  • 
3 in common: Parable of the Sower, De ansatte and 1 more
If you usually choose novels for their people, social observation or moral tensions, these books offer several ways into science fiction. Start with Never Let Me Go for an intimate voice, Station...
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Science Fiction About Bodies That Can Be Changed
Science Fiction About Bodies That Can Be Changed
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Autonomous and The Body Scout
A different body can open a door, create a new dependence or become somebody else's property. These books explore all three possibilities. All Systems Red and A Closed and Common Orbit give...
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Science Fiction About Climate Futures Beyond Simple Apocalypse
Science Fiction About Climate Futures Beyond Simple Apocalypse
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Great Transition and Parable of the Sower
Climate fiction can imagine more than the moment things fall apart. These books ask how people build, share water, preserve knowledge, organise work and decide who belongs in a protected place...
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Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: Parable of the Sower and The Dispossessed
Hope is more convincing when the work behind it remains visible. These novels, memoirs and reported accounts find it in practical care, resistance, persistent relationships and changed ways of...
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Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
Satirical Novels That Understand How Power Works
by book_guy  • 
In common: Jennifer Government
Power rarely introduces itself as self-interest. It arrives as procedure, expertise, efficiency, tradition or a remarkably persuasive statement of the public good. These 25 novels make those...
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Science Fiction With Older Women at the Centre
Science Fiction With Older Women at the Centre
by book_guy  • 
In common: Record of a Spaceborn Few
These women have histories, jobs, loyalties and things they still want. Their stories make room for the judgement that comes with experience, including the times it fails. The range runs from...
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Funny Science Fiction With Ideas Behind the Jokes
Funny Science Fiction With Ideas Behind the Jokes
by book_guy  • 
In common: Service Model
The best comic futures have rules, even when those rules are appalling. These books make joke and invention work together: copyright can bankrupt a universe in Year Zero, obsolete heroes need new...
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Books Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
Books Worth Spending a Whole Weekend With
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A whole weekend with one book is a chance to settle into another place, rather than simply finish a large number of pages. These novels offer an inhabited world, a reason to keep turning the pages...
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Comfort Reads for When Life Feels Too Loud
Comfort Reads for When Life Feels Too Loud
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Comfort can mean a quiet conversation, a familiar comic voice or the sight of people building a place where others belong. These choices favour companionship and practical kindness. They are not...
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Science Fiction Mysteries Where the World Changes the Case
Science Fiction Mysteries Where the World Changes the Case
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Body Scout
The invented world should change the investigation: what a witness could know, whether a body proves a death, how a person is identified or who has authority to follow a clue. These books make...
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Science Fiction About Memory, Identity and Who Gets to Decide
Science Fiction About Memory, Identity and Who Gets to Decide
by book_guy  • 
In common: De ansatte
A memory can be evidence, a possession, a bond with someone else or a version of events that an institution would rather replace. These books make that uncertainty part of their speculative...
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Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Dispossessed
A useful change of mind often begins with a judgement that stops feeling adequate. These novels and memoirs make room for conflicting loyalties, incomplete knowledge and lives that resist a...
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Books for When You Want Anger With Somewhere to Go
Books for When You Want Anger With Somewhere to Go
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Dispossessed
Anger becomes more useful when you can name the arrangements behind it, hear from the people affected and argue about what might change them. This selection moves between organising studies...
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Science Fiction in Translation That Expands the Genre
Science Fiction in Translation That Expands the Genre
by book_guy  • 
In common: De ansatte
Science fiction changes when its histories, narrative habits and routes into English change. These books move from spacefaring adventures and time travel to climate crime, political satire...
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Books for Book Clubs That Like to Disagree
Books for Book Clubs That Like to Disagree
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Dispossessed
The most interesting meeting can end with people seeing more clearly why they disagree. These novels offer more than a provocative premise: their voices, consequences and competing loyalties give...
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Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Dispossessed
A street can divide neighbours, a river can carry a family history, and a new route can change what a landscape is for. These 30 novels give place that kind of consequence. Their settings shape...
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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
In common: Parable of the Sower
Treat this as a set of doors into different kinds of reading. Familiar novels sit beside translated fiction, memoir, poetry, science and stories told in pictures, chosen for a memorable voice, an...
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Heist Novels Where the Plan Is Half the Pleasure
Heist Novels Where the Plan Is Half the Pleasure
by book_guy  • 
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The pleasure starts with assigning the parts: who can gain access, keep time, distract the right person or move something that should be impossible to move? These novels give planning and...
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