Mostly a list, again:
Light from Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki. This is excellent, and is both definitely science fiction and definitely fantasy, and much of it takes place at a video arcade donut shop.
Forged in Combat, by Celia Lake
Perchance, by yojfull on Archive of Our Own. Original work (meaning not fanfic), which I found because I liked the author's InCryptid/Saint of Steel crossover story.
Third Girl, by Agatha Christie. A Poirot novel, with (again) questions of who some of the characters really are, plus a very 1960s-square atttitude toward drug use and then-contemporary fashion and art.
A Frame for Murder, by Imogen Plimp. another random cozy mystery from BookBuB. The romance is, fortunately, only a minor part of this, and the plot kept moving. It was good enough to finish, but I'm not going to look for more of the series. The bits about food seem shoved in, somehow.
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sabotabby asked what I thought about Everything for Everyone (from the previous book post). I had hoped to write something thoughtful, but instead, I'm copying this from my booklog file:
post-dystopian SF, about the battles and work to build a communist future on the ruins of, well, everything, with world-building, both in the science fiction criticism sense and literally people talking about (re)building the world, working to restore the biosphere, education, and so on.
This is set about 50 years into the future, with voices including old people who were born before and lived through and helped create the transition, and talking about what they did and the friends and family they lost, and others who remember the worst times but not the world before, the world that included universities and airline travel as well as the horrors of late stage capitalism.
Family as a verb, a choice, some of it by people who needed to do that to have any family at all, having lost parents, siblings, other kin to war and detention camps and hunger and disease. // Characters talking about the ongoing work to make a better world, and also about the trauma. The "oral history" quilt format includes the "interviewers" being told "ask about something else" when they touch on painful topics.
Light from Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki. This is excellent, and is both definitely science fiction and definitely fantasy, and much of it takes place at a video arcade donut shop.
Forged in Combat, by Celia Lake
Perchance, by yojfull on Archive of Our Own. Original work (meaning not fanfic), which I found because I liked the author's InCryptid/Saint of Steel crossover story.
Third Girl, by Agatha Christie. A Poirot novel, with (again) questions of who some of the characters really are, plus a very 1960s-square atttitude toward drug use and then-contemporary fashion and art.
A Frame for Murder, by Imogen Plimp. another random cozy mystery from BookBuB. The romance is, fortunately, only a minor part of this, and the plot kept moving. It was good enough to finish, but I'm not going to look for more of the series. The bits about food seem shoved in, somehow.
sabotabby asked what I thought about Everything for Everyone (from the previous book post). I had hoped to write something thoughtful, but instead, I'm copying this from my booklog file:post-dystopian SF, about the battles and work to build a communist future on the ruins of, well, everything, with world-building, both in the science fiction criticism sense and literally people talking about (re)building the world, working to restore the biosphere, education, and so on.
This is set about 50 years into the future, with voices including old people who were born before and lived through and helped create the transition, and talking about what they did and the friends and family they lost, and others who remember the worst times but not the world before, the world that included universities and airline travel as well as the horrors of late stage capitalism.
Family as a verb, a choice, some of it by people who needed to do that to have any family at all, having lost parents, siblings, other kin to war and detention camps and hunger and disease. // Characters talking about the ongoing work to make a better world, and also about the trauma. The "oral history" quilt format includes the "interviewers" being told "ask about something else" when they touch on painful topics.