🤦🏿‍♂️Actually, nevermind.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@mekkaokereke I have quite some afrofuturism books in my collection and enjoy them tremendously. Definitely a collection of worlds worth exploring. Looking very much forward to your experience!

[zdl@mstdn.social]

@mekkaokereke Money.

[mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io]

@ZDL

But it will cost him money?

[delawen@floss.social]

@mekkaokereke Damn it! This was an author I enjoyed. I was going to watch the movie.

I will keep then reading only women that are explicitly trans-inclusive feminist with characters that are not only white.

Explicitly anti racist is harder to find, for some reason... No one asks that question explicitly on interviews.

[billiglarper@rollenspiel.social]

@mekkaokereke

Thanks for the heads up.

I really really like the #ProjectHailMary book. I like how it creates suspense without resorting to conflict. How it keeps pulling the rug from under you. The message.

I've been on the fence to watch the movie due to the spoilery trailer.

And now this.

Finding out the creators of your favourite things to be jerks sucks.

[psychuan@plush.city]

@mekkaokereke iirc Iain M. Banks specifically wrote the Culture series of books because he hated how fashy 70's sci-fi was. not exactly new or even a deep cut, but worth a look if you've not picked them up yet?

[rycaut@mastodon.social]

@mekkaokereke looking forward to your list/discussion suggesting some.

A few that come to mind:

Matt Ruff (“Lovecraft Country” and sequel)

Octavia Butler - I’m particularly fond of the recent graphic novel versions of Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. Hard to improve on or even just adapt a masterpiece but Damian Duffy and John Jennings did so

I haven’t yet finished it but Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift is wildly ambitious and tackles racism directly

[curlyparakeet@mastodon.online]

@PsyChuan @mekkaokereke

+1 for the Culture series.

[runoutgroover@cloudisland.nz]

@mekkaokereke Oh bollocks! I was looking forward to this one and now I am not gonna bother. What a wanker.

[kristinhenry@vis.social]

@mekkaokereke For more recent SciFi, have you read mary robinette kowal?

I love Julie Cznerneda's Species Imperative trilogy, mainly because a scientist is taken seriously, and then she goes on to save all life in the universe by being a scientist who thinks through things. And yeah, there is a sexy-to-her intergalactic secret agent academic who shows up now and then. What can I say, I love a male character who believes and supports a female character.

[ditsch42@troet.cafe]

@mekkaokereke Do you know the Binti series by @nnedi ? Big recommendation!

And so sad to read about this. I watched the Hail Mary movie without knowing anything about the book and author. I mostly liked it, except for the whole "this one average guy is the only one who can save the world" part ^^"

[zdl@mstdn.social]

@mekkaokereke He's hoping the anti-woke crowd brings him more money than the woke crowd will lose him. He's reading the zeitgeist and cynically taking a knee to the fascists and racists (but I repeat myself). He may also be banking on the fact that most of his woke crowd won't hear about this, so losing even less from that camp.

I didn't say he was right. I'm just highlighting his motivation.

[kristinhenry@vis.social]

@mekkaokereke Ok not sci-fi. But if you like historical stuff, around Bletchly Park...I really loved Rose Code by Kate Quinn.

[mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io]

@CurlyParakeet @PsyChuan

I've only read Consider Phlebas so far.

[evilpilaf@hachyderm.io]

@mekkaokereke if you haven’t read them yet, Malka Olders Centenal Cycle is pretty good @older

[mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io]

@s_wilson

You're right! They don't have to be new!

[psychuan@plush.city]

@mekkaokereke @CurlyParakeet I think you've got the best ahead of you then!

[curlyparakeet@mastodon.online]

@mekkaokereke

It’s good, but not my favourite. Player of Games, Excession (️ Sleeper Service!) and Surface Detail are my amazing IMO.

And, always read the epilogue!!

@PsyChuan

[jonnyt@mastodon.me.uk]

@mekkaokereke @s_wilson In that case, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (their other books are mostly fantasy) and anything by Octavia E. Butler.

[stevel@hachyderm.io]

@mekkaokereke Underground Airlines by Ben H Winters?
Modern era but the US civil war never happened and a (genuine) proposed settlement still in force, US internationally isolated as South Africa was in the 1980s. Protagonist is an escaped save captured and forced to assist the US Marshalls in their (genuine pre civil war era) task of capturing slaves who has escaped to the "free states"

Underground Airlines - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)