Science Fiction

13639 readers

55 users here now

Welcome to /c/ScienceFiction

December book club canceled. Short stories instead!

We are a community for discussing all things Science Fiction. We want this to be a place for members to discuss and share everything they love about Science Fiction, whether that be books, movies, TV shows and more. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow.

Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
Put (Spoilers) in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers.
Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread.

Lemmy World Rules

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Tenthrow@lemmy.world

804

What are you Reading? (August 2023) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Izzy@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

399 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I've put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It's mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I'm going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading.

Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (July 2023)

At any rate, what are you currently reading or plan to read in August?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers.

Such amazing, lovely sci-fi that touches on so many topics.

Last one is based in a really nice intergalactic truck stop. Or like an airport hotel maybe.

And I didn't realise it until my second read-through, but it's basically all about cross-species accessibility/accomodations.

Really beautiful stuff.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I really liked how positive they all were without being relentlessly upbeat, and that they're mostly just small character stories in their universe instead of grand space opera stuff. It's just people working through their problems and they happen to be in space and sometimes have to worry about that.

It's also a neat way to do a 'shared universe'(?). Other than the second, none of the books are direct sequels. It's someone who's related to / knows a character from another book but there's not a grand overarching plot or anything. Reminds me a bit of some pieces of the old Star Wars Expanded universe where sometimes an author just wanted to tell a bottle story that wasn't concerned with Jedi/Sith politics. ...or I guess Tokyo Drift... :P

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

The most wholesome SciFi in existence. It feels like a warm, humanitarian hug from a bunch of aliens. Great series!