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November Book Reviews: Interstellar Megachef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

I picked this book up from the new library book section since I liked Lakshminarayan's previous novel, Ten Percent Thief. Professional chef Saras Kaveri flees an uncomfortable family situation on Earth to compete in an interstellar cooking show on sophisticated cultural center Primus in the South Asian space future. Unfortunately, Saras will have more trouble than she expected on a planet that considers her Earth culture barbaric at best, not to mention the meddling presence of tech genius Serenity Ko and her ideas for a food simulation…

As someone who personally didn't get along with Valente's Space Opera, this was a lot closer to what I was looking for. Lakshminarayan pulls no punches depicting the genuine bigotry Saras faces due to her Earth origins, from her accent to her lack of familiarity with Primian-style cooking techniques. This is not meant to be a fluffy, fun cooking show book-- while the plot does pay genuine attention to the meaning of food and cooking, beware that very little of the pagespace is devoted to the actual cooking show. Instead, we're spending time with Saras' fraught family background, Primus history, and the budding relationship with scheming Serenity Ko and her app.

Unfortunately I found Serenity Ko to be the least interesting part of the book and disliked her POV sections. She was a deeply self-centered person, willing to trample over everyone in order to achieve corporate greatness at the tech company she works at, and I wasn't much interested in her learning to use slightly fewer slurs and be incrementally less cruel to people's faces arc. Alas, she is the love interest and no doubt will be recurring.

Pick this book up if you liked Space Opera but are looking for something a little more pointed.

[sffinsiders]

Review: Interstellar Megachef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan — SFF Insiders

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💖 Sapphic Books Coming Out November 2024

🩷 Good afternoon, bookish bats. By now, you know that sweet, sapphic romance books have a special place in my heart. Here are only a few of the amazing sapphic books hitting shelves in November 2024.

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💖 Which ones are you adding to your TBR?

Contemporary 💖 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar 💖 Leap - Simina Popescu 💖 Wake Up, Nat & Darcy - Kate Cochrane 💖 Thanks for Listening - Molly Horan 💖 A New Leash on Love - Jaime Clevenger 💖 Mallory in Full Color - Elisa Stone Leahy

Fantasy 💖 The Lotus Empire - Tasha Suri 💖 A Wild and Ruined Song - Ashley Shuttleworth 💖 The Moonstone Covenant - Jill Hammer 💖 Witch Queen of Redwinter - Ed McDonald 💖 Our Deadly Designs - Kalyn Josephson 💖 The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso

Paranormal/Horror 💖 I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call - Jamison Shea 💖 Dead Girls Don't Dream - Nino Cipri

Historical 💖 Time and Tide - J.M. Frey

Sci-Fi 💖 Interstellar MegaChef - Lavanya Lakshminarayan

[charliejaneanders]

Huzzah! My final book review column of 2024 is out in the @washingtonpost! This time, I look at three new space opera books, and see just how varied and exciting space opera is getting lately.

Gift link: wapo.st/3OYUTPH

A few years ago I wrote a piece for Esquire about space opera (www.esquire.com/entertainmen...). The gist was that The Expanse (and Alien) had moved space opera into focus on "blue collar" characters who were thrown into huge situations. There were so many books along those lines.

So it was interesting to look at three new space opera books that don't really fit the Expanse model. Interstellar Megachef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan is so fun and colorful — it felt like a cousin to Space Opera/Space Oddity by Cat Valente. Space politics seen thru the lens of culture.

Sweep of Stars/Breath of Oblivion by Maurice Broaddus have the feel of an old-school space opera at first. The fate of worlds is at stake, starships are boldly exploring, a lot of characters are leaders. But these are philosophical works about holding onto yourself in extreme situations. So much fascinating stuff about African diaspora and the philosophies behind Muungano come into play in these books. They're so rich and so full of interpersonal, introspective discovery rather than just discoveries in deep space. They're exciting on so many levels.

The Peter F. Hamilton book, Exodus, feels the closest to a classic space opera — it has a lot in common with Iain M. Banks, Ken MacLeod, some of the stuff Charles Stross was publishing a while back. But the politics get pretty twisty and complicated — mind control is the real killer widget here.

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People I’d like to get to know better

Tagged by @lillytalons, thanks!

Last Song: I Only Smoke When I Drink by nimino

Fav color: lilac, especially in combination with green

Last book: Currently switching between a re-read of The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman and a first read of Interstellar MegaChef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Last movie: Wicked

Last tv show: the Great British Baking Show

School or job status: Full-time at my current job for over 2 years

Sweet/spicy/savory: Combo of sweet and salty is my favorite

Last thing googled: playlist from a local radio station - they played a version of Popcorn I hadn't heard before and I wanted to know who performed it (answer: Steve Aoki, Unmet Ozcan, and Dzeko)

Looking forward to: The audiobook of the next Dungeon Crawler Carl book will be released in a few weeks

Current obsession: Cooking comfort foods

no pressure tags: @a-noble-dragon, @jamilas-pen, @thesymphonytrue, @ascreamintothevoid-blog, @bardtothebone, @penguinsandyetmorepenguins

[maryrobinette]

My Favorite Bit: Lavanya Lakshminarayan talks about INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF

Lavanya Lakshminarayan is joining us today to talk about her novel, Interstellar MegaChef. Here’s the publisher’s description: Stepping off a long-haul star freighter from Earth, Saras Kaveri has one bag of clothes, her little flying robot Kili… and an invitation to compete in the galaxy’s most watched, most prestigious cooking show. Interstellar MegaChef is the showcase of the planet Primus’s…

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Interstellar Megachef, par Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Solaris, novembre 2024)

Saras Kaveri, une célèbre cheffe sur la désormais méprisée Terre, abandonne tout pour venir participer à un concours de cuisine sur Primus, depuis des siècles le centre incontesté de la culture humaine. Là elle va être confronté à la xénophobie et à l’hypocrisie ambiante, aux ambitions de certains et à ses propres démons.

Je regarde ma bibliothèque et je m’aperçois que c’est peut-être la première fois qu’un ouvrage d’art-fiction (ici, l’art culinaire) évite le ridicule et l’ennui. L’autrice, même si certains passages descriptifs auraient pu être allégés, parvient à écrire brillamment sur la cuisine et notre rapport à la nourriture, tout en nous offrant des personnages intéressants, des intrigues robustes et un contexte riche et complexe. Attention : la couverture ne correspond ni dans l’esprit, ni dans la lettre au contenu réel de l’ouvrage.

Comme le roman s’arrête en plein milieu des principaux arcs narratifs, j’attends avec impatience le volume deux !

[storizenmagazine]

#BookReview: "Interstellar Megachef" leaves readers with a mix of satisfaction and anticipation. The universe is richly imagined, but the story concludes with a cliffhanger, teasing more to come in the 'Flavour Hacker Duology'.

[taylor-its-me]

ARC Review: " Interstellar Megachef" by Lavanya Lakshminarayan. Sapphics in space, food & adorable friendships! 🤖🪐🥞

Listen, listen! I have perhaps read 10 sci-fi novels in all of my life (and I think some of them were all the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, because of my boyfriend) and it has never been my genre. However, something propelled me hard and fast towards “Interstellar MegaChef” and I was ecstatic when I got it.Was it the huge doughnut on the cover? Perhaps! Was it the intriguing female centricity…

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: COPY - MegaChef 1.8 Liter Cordless Glass and Stainless Steel Electric Tea Kettl….

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🍥 Is this a good fish sauce to use? does it matter? It did not make my stir fry taste good at all. Maybe i didnt use it right. Some use megachef premium fish sauce, i've never used that brand though.

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[wearethekat]

November Book Review Overview

The Dallergut Dream Department Store (Miye Lee)

Feast While You Can (Mikaella Clements)

The Wolf Hunt (Gillian Bradshaw)

A Magical Girl Retires (Seolyeon Park)

Monstrous Nights (Genoveva Dimova)

Rose/House (Arkady Martine)

Sargassa (Sophie Burnham)

Only Mostly Dead (Allie Temple)

The Bloodless Princes (Charlotte Bond)

The Teller of Small Fortunes (Julie Leong)

Misery Hates Company (Elizabeth Hobbs)

The Pairing (Casey Mcquiston)

Shorefall (Robert Jackson Bennett)

Heaven Official's Blessing, vol. 8 (Mo Xiang Tong Xiu)

Echoes of the Imperium (Nicholas Atwater)

Point of Hopes (Melissa Scott)

The Chatelaine (Kate Heartfield)

A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience (Stephanie Burgis)

The Twice-Sold Soul (Katie Hallahan)

The Courting of Bristol Keats (Mary E Pearson)

The Legacy of Arniston House (TL Huchu)

Interstellar MegaChef (Lavanya Lakshminarayan)

The Muse of Maiden Lane (Mimi Matthews)

Alibi (Sharon Shinn)

The Last Hour Between Worlds (Melissa Caruso)

We Shall Be Monsters (Alyssa Wees)

The Ten Percent Thief (Lavanya Lakshminarayan)

The Sirens Sang of Murder (Sarah Caudwell)

Locklands (Robert Jackson Bennett)

The Moonstone Covenant (Jill Hammer)

A Trinket for the Taking (Victoria Laurie)

The Husbands (Holly Gramazio)

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Manufacturer: SUPERSONIC UPC: 639131002296 Model Number: IQ-521    here’s the flavor of the day ! 

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in November 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

❓What was the last queer book you read?

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call - Jamison Shea 🧡 Snowed in With You - Reba Bale 💛 Fire Spells Between Friends - Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan 💚 Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac - K.A. Merikan 💙 Escape to the Sea - Alex Callan & Angelica Babineaux 💜 She's Always Hungry - Eliza Clark 💛 Phoenix Rising - Emily Hayes 💙 A Flower's Fatal Thorn - Jordan Dugdale 💜 A Sharper, More Lasting Pain - Alex Harvey-Rivas

❤️ The Librarian's Gargoyle - Evelyn Shine 🧡 Dead Girls Don't Dream - Nino Cipri 💛 Of Hoarfrost and Blood - Scarlet Tempest 💚 Judgement - Lucas Delrose 💙 Deadline for Love - Candi Tab 💜 Wake Up, Nat & Darcy - Kate Cochrane ❤️ All the Truth I Can Stand - Mason Stokes 🧡 Celia - Addison James 💛 A Diamond Bright and Broken - Holly Davis 💙 Hexed - Emily McIntire 💜 Hometown Christmas - Laura Conway 🌈 This Christmas - Georgia Beers

❤️ Suite Heart - Jade Winters 🧡 We All Fall - Arden Coutts 💛 Taiwan Travelogue - Yáng Shuāng-zǐ 💚 Pit Stop - L.M. Bennett 💙 The Damaged Hearts Bargain - Sienna Waters 💜 War of Night - Greyson Black & E. Scott Clevenger 🧡 I'll be Boned for Christmas - Katherine McIntyre 💜 All You Want for the Holidays - Quinton Li 🌈 Queer as Folklore - Sacha Coward

❤️ Time and Tide - J.M. Frey 🧡 Ghost of the Heart - Catherine Friend 💛 Flopping in a Winter Wonderland - Jason June 💚 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 💙 Currency in Flesh - Heather Nix 💜 I Really Do - Emily K. Hardy ❤️ Something Close to God - Erika del Carmen Ruiz 🧡 The Crack at the Heart of Everything - Fiona Fenn 💛 Undeniable You - Chelsea M. Cameron 💙 The Twice-Sold Soul - Katie Hallahan 💜 Always on My Mind - Kelsey Painter 🌈 Interstellar MegaChef - Lavanya Lakshminarayan

❤️ Don't Break Character - Jules Landry 🧡 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar 💛 Remnants of Filth: Yuwu - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💚 Sugar, Spice, and Christmas Nice - Anne Hagan 💙 The Wishing Tree - Barbara Winkes 💜 Love on Moonlight Lake - Adriana Sargent ❤️ Mistletoe Motel - Lise Gold 🧡 The Royal They - KJ Sinclair 💛 My So-Called Family - Gia Gordon 💙 Frosted by the Girl Next Door - Aurora Rey & Jaime Clevenger 💜 The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani 🌈 A Hard Fit - Jennifer Moffatt

❤️ The Sacred Heart Motel - Grace Kwan 🧡 Leap - Simina Popescu 💛 I Dare You - Regena Mercy 💚 Love Lessons - Mary Ellen Capek 💙 Afterglow - Emily Antoinette 💜 In the Back Row With You - Natasha West ❤️ Make Room for Love - Darcy Liao 🧡 Here Goes Nothing - Emma K. Ohland Just for the Holidays - Micah Carver

❤️ Cookies, Candles, and Cute Butts for Christmas - Cameron D. James & Cali Kitsu 🧡 Objects in Mirror - N.W. Downs 💛 Sleigh Bells Ring - Alyson Root 💚 Real Tree / Fake Boyfriend - Ree Thomas 💙 Out of the Storm - Logan Sage Adams 💜 Hungry Heart - Jem Milton ❤️ A Wild and Ruined Song - Ashley Shuttleworth 🧡 Beneath Her Power - Margaux Fox 💛 Thanks for Listening - Molly Horan 🌈 The Lotus Empire - Tasha Suri

❤️ Naughty November - Anthology 🧡 Hearts and Stars - Phoenix Kathryn 💛 Guarding Her Gangster Queen - Persephone Black 💚 The Shadow Spinner - Eric Kao 💙 Black, Queer, and Untold - Jon Key 💜 Hall of Shadows - Mariah Stillbrook ❤️ The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso 🧡 A Crimson Covenant - Aimee Donnellan 💛 Isaac - Curtis Garner 💙 Vineyard Dreams - Carol Wyatt 💜 Kiss of Death - Bryony Rosehurst 🌈 The Many Mistakes of Amy Love - RA Hunter

❤️ Accidentally in Love - Kimberly Cooper Griffin 🧡 Unwrapped - D. Jackson Leigh 💛 Hot Honey Love - Nan Campbell 💚 Havoc for the Holidays - Jay Leigh 💙 London - Patricia Evans 💜 Fatal Foul Play - David S. Pederson ❤️ The Gift of Us - Abigail Taylor 🧡 Upon the Midnight Queer - 'Nathan Burgoine 💛 The Christmas Pic - Rena Sapon-White & Ella Schaefer 💙 Seducing Scylla - Lex Logan 💜 Fated Winds and Promising Seas - Rose Black 🌈 A Surprise For The Holidays - Anna Sparrows

❤️ Immortal Hunger - KL Bone 🧡 Love and Loyalty - Emily Hayes 💛 A Kingdom of Lies - Ben Alderson 💚 Christmas Dreams - Carol Wyatt 💙 Wrecked for the Holidays - Kerry Kilpatrick ❤️ Not for the Faint of Heart - Lex Croucher 🧡 Phoenix Found - T.J. Nichols 💛 Room for Two - Rochelle Wolf 💙 The Long Winter of Miðgarðr - Edale Lan 💜 A Handyman for the Holidays - Valerie Gomez 🌈 Sundown in San Ojuela - M.M. Olivas

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: MegaChef 3Pc Preowned Yellow Burgundy Orange Baking Mixing Cups.