Oh, gosh, best books ever. That's hard to settle on, because there are the Best Books, and then the ones that I reread the most, and then the ones I find easiest to recommend to other people, and...gosh. Hm. Let me see. An inconclusive list:
Ancillary Justice, in which a starship who is forced to be a single human goes on a twenty-years-in-the-planning revenge quest because she only discovered what actual choices and free will were too late.
The Goblin Emperor, in which a young man acquires great power, and discovers it comes with a lack of privacy and lots of bureaucracy, but that sometimes a person who is relentlessly dedicated to being kind can make real changes in the world.
Karen Memory, in which a cheery prostitute of steampunk Seattle falls in love with a polyglot girl from India trying to save her sister from sex slavery, and fights destructive venture capitalists with a converted sewing machine.
Foreigner, in which a young translator/diplomat on an alien world has a long, fraught vacation of poisonous tea and uncomfortable dinosaur rides while trying to figure out who wants to kill him and if he can trust anyone at all.
Ninefox Gambit, in which a loyal infantry captain of the Evil Space Empire gets a mad general's ghost in her head so that she can take down a rebellion of calendrical heresy and figure out a lot of uncomfortable things about where her own ethical boundaries and long-term goals lie.
Three Parts Dead, in which a recently graduated necromancer/lawyer gets her first job in defending a city against people trying to take advantage of its murdered god and their resulting financial crisis.
Mm, yes. I think that's a good list to start with.
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Date: 2017-07-19 07:31 pm (UTC)Ancillary Justice, in which a starship who is forced to be a single human goes on a twenty-years-in-the-planning revenge quest because she only discovered what actual choices and free will were too late.
The Goblin Emperor, in which a young man acquires great power, and discovers it comes with a lack of privacy and lots of bureaucracy, but that sometimes a person who is relentlessly dedicated to being kind can make real changes in the world.
Karen Memory, in which a cheery prostitute of steampunk Seattle falls in love with a polyglot girl from India trying to save her sister from sex slavery, and fights destructive venture capitalists with a converted sewing machine.
Foreigner, in which a young translator/diplomat on an alien world has a long, fraught vacation of poisonous tea and uncomfortable dinosaur rides while trying to figure out who wants to kill him and if he can trust anyone at all.
Ninefox Gambit, in which a loyal infantry captain of the Evil Space Empire gets a mad general's ghost in her head so that she can take down a rebellion of calendrical heresy and figure out a lot of uncomfortable things about where her own ethical boundaries and long-term goals lie.
Three Parts Dead, in which a recently graduated necromancer/lawyer gets her first job in defending a city against people trying to take advantage of its murdered god and their resulting financial crisis.
Mm, yes. I think that's a good list to start with.