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Everina Maxwell: Ocean's Echo (EBook, 2022, Tor Books, Tom Doherty Associates, Macmillan Publishing Group)

Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate …

Brilliant second novel

The second novel from Everina Maxwell is just as delightful as the first. She builds a complex world with a background of competing factions and layers of politics.

One of the things I really love is that homosexual and heterosexual relationships are viewed the same and gender identity is just something personal and people can control the level they share. Huge strides have been made for #LGBTQ progress but from growing up in a world where you are still treated as other to seeing one where it is not even a concern is a subtle but poignant paradigm shift.

If you like Becky Chambers then definitely read Everina Maxwell!

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were …

Never Let Me Go

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Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy"--An extreme welfare state -- that holds …

The Core of the Sun

I read this because it was on the #SFFBookClub backlog.

This book is about a woman in a (gender-)dystopian Finnish society that puts public health above all else. Applying eugenics, gender stereotypes, applying science like the fox domestication experiments to humans, this society divides everybody into men and women, and further into H.G. Wells-esque eloi/morlock categories, all based on childhood appearance, behavior, and health. Eloi women especially are forced into extreme feminine stereotypes. The main character has been secretly educated but pretends to be eloi.

I think the most weird and delightful part of the book for me is the focus on chili peppers and capsaicin. It's been made illegal (along with alcohol and tobacco), and so a lot of the book is focused on the main character getting her chili fix, illegal pepper drug trade, and the transcendental experiences from having too many scovilles. The book takes this all …