Ancillary Justice and trilogy. Many sci-fi writers are good storytellers, others are good worldbuilders. Ann Leckie is one of the very few who are excellent at both.
@morganastra I've been looking at that one, I think I'll throw this month's Audible credit at it.
@morganastra as a dyslexic I'm very frustrated only the second one is on my library's audiobook app. That said I could take the plunge and buy the first as audio.
@ruth ah, sucks they're not available, I'm pretty sure audiobook versions do exist out there somewhere for all three
@morganastra Did some quick research, customers also bought "The Three-Body Problem" and Redshirts by John Scalzi. Sold, thanks for the recommendation!
@morganastra It's also one of the few 1st person narratives I can tolerate, probably because it's a machine narrating.
@OldandConfused well, I think one of the really key lessons of the book is that it's a mistake to think of her as a different category of characters than the humans, just because her intelligence is artificial!
@OldandConfused Leckie's narrative style is just *really good*, it flows well and is very natural and presents the right amount of detail, I think that's probably the reason so many people who often don't like first-person narrations nevertheless like that trilogy
@morganastra @OldandConfused
Speaking of AI narrators, Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (i think) is the story of a colony ship to another solar system as told by an AI that's simultaneously lessening how to tell a story. The development of the narration throughout the book really sells it, and the audiobook version makes it even better.
@morganastra I agree that the writing is excellent. It just reads more like 3rd person to me, because of the artificial and cold narrator.
I should say I haven't finished the series yet. I just got through the first book and have the other two queued up on my Kindle.
@morganastra That said, the harshness of her universe bothers me a lot. It's a horrible place really.
@morganastra I was astonished how that series created in my mind a whole genre of anticolonial space opera, and then proceeded to fill it
@oneiro Rumor has it she's working on another book in the same universe :3
(er, this was meant as a reply to someone but ah hell the rest of you should read it also!)