I’m deep cleaning the house today. (Well, hopefully. I’m by myself with 2 kids.) I’m looking for #sciencefiction or #fantasy #audiobooks with a #mystery element. Any suggestions? (Preferably on #hoopla or #Overdrive.)
Past favorites include Lock In, Six Wakes, The Dresden Files, In Death series, Vorkosigan Saga, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter.
@ghost_bird Good sugestions! Though, I've read both of those :) I Not sure I completely liked _The City and the City_ but it was definitely fascinating. I did really like the "City of Stairs" series, particularly the 2nd one.
@kiesa “The City and the City” was a bit too police-procedural for me, but it’s a powerful metaphor for life in a big city. And I liked some of the little jokes he was playing with terms from Clute’s “Encyclopedia of Fantasy”.
I wasn’t so keen on “City of Blades” but that may be because I didn’t feel the first book needed a sequel. I should probably go back and give it a less-prejudiced try.
@ghost_bird Well, also different books for different people :)
I hadn't thought about "The City and the City" from a metaphor perspective. I read it before I had lived in a big city but upon reflection I see what you mean.
@kiesa Reviewers had a tendency to talk about Belfast or Beirut or other obviously-divided cities, but it’s also about they way (say) the halal butchers on my local high street or the homeless people in the park just drop out of my world.
@kiesa in this general thematic zone Max Gladstones Craft sequence is also good I thought, even the rare well done trans character
@kiesa did you read those @ghost_bird?
@Eve I read the first couple and found them a bit irritating, I’m afraid. Their critique of capitalism seemed to be coming from a conservative direction, and I’m not as fond of gods as the author. Interesting to compare them with City of Stairs, though.
@ghost_bird city of stairs I thought was much much better. That said the others were improved a lot by the appearance of the trans woman character in book 3, though I have to confess I also gave up on the series at that point
@Eve (People keep recommending them, though, and I think it’s an interesting setting. I’ll try another one at some point.)
@kiesa Miéville’s “The City and the City@? More mystery and less fantastic than some, but it’s good. Or Robert Jackson Bennett’s “City of Stairs” for something more overtly fantastic with an action-espionage spin.