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strikeslip · 4 months ago
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you've also read Terra Ignota and the Commonweal books! Hello! Know anything else that you'd fit into that category?
Hello! What a delightful question.
Is the category defined by the quality of the worldbuilding, and how it supports the story while also interacting with notions of history and culture?
Is the category defined by being thrown into a complicated setting and having to figure things out from context?
Is the category defined by how different the stories are from basically anything you're going to encounter on a normal bookstore shelf?
Maybe a little of all three? Anyway, I'd recommend Carla Speed McNeil's FINDER, Hannu Rajaniemi's Jean le Flambeur Trilogy (Starts with The Quantum Thief), and Jeff Noon's Vurt in that order. That's one post-post-apocalyptic science fiction graphic novel series, a set of high concept science fiction heists with some really interesting future cultures (I think the Zoku and the Utopians have a lot in common), and the weirdest cyberpunk novel you may ever encounter. All of these are more like Terra Ignota than they're like the Commonweal books -- honestly, the closest thing to the Commonweal might be Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, but also, that sort of depends what you're getting out of the Commonweal. If you're enjoying the social organization aspects, then Le Guin. If, alternatively, you're looking for something where a sorcerer will consider grabbing a bucket of Fluorite and casting Spell Of Dioxygen Difluoride, I recommend Worth The Candle.
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