Media Recommendations
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Free Webcomics:
- Job Satisfaction, Jey Barnes - Freelance demon summoners in an alt-London-ish setting, dealing with unbearable clients and nosy neighbors. Thoroughly charming design and writing, and I love how the soul-manipulating demon who's hiding out on Earth to evade the many factions chasing after him is the Wacky Neighbor rather than the protagonist. (Ongoing, updates Fridays.)
- Never Satisfied, Taylor Robin - Teens compete to be the magical Representative of their Mediterranean-esque, 19th/20th-century-style city. Excellent design (especially characters and their familiars), and the magical worldbuilding dovetails well with the story's themes, especially class stratification. Has a great spread of queer characters being normal, heroic, and Just Fucking Awful. (Ongoing, updates Mondays.)
- O Human Star, Blue Delliquanti - (Complete.)
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Books (Prose):
- Teixcalaan series, Arkady Martine (A Memory Called Empire, A Desolation Called Peace) - An ambassador from a distant station arrives at the core of the Teixcalaanli Empire, an Aztec/Byzantine hybrid with a bottomless poetic canon and many material interests in her homeland. Her predecessor was murdered, and she has just her wits and a fifteen-years-outdated scan of his brain to solve the case. Fantastic themes of loving something that by its nature can never love you back, having to work with whoever you distrust the least, and the many ways to use and abuse art and history. More detailed thoughts on the series are here.
- Terra Ignota series, Ada Palmer (Too Like the Lightning, Seven Surrenders, The Will to Battle, Perhaps the Stars) - In 2454, the world is a semi-utopia built on deeply repressed global trauma. Hives - non-geographic nations with absolute exit rights - are the dominant political order; free flying cars unite the world, and enable highly niche cities with locations unconstrained by supply lines; and being religious in public is one of the most illegal things one can do. Mycroft Canner, the most notorious criminal in living memory (and whom most of the world assumes is dead), narrates how the world's unresolved fault lines flare up into war and far stranger things.
- Wayfarers Series, Becky Chambers (The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, Record of a Spaceborn Few) -
- Masquerade series, Seth Dickinson (The Traitor Baru Cormorant, The Monster Baru Cormorant, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant) -
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