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Author: Featherstone
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The McMahon Institute for Unquiet Minds – by Tade Thompson
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• Prelude to what will become the Wormwood trilogy • A psychiatric institution that doesn’t do much for anyone’s mental health
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Ancillary Justice – by Ann Leckie
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• What’s left of sentient warship develops her own individuality • Everybody gets she/her pronouns as the main character doesn’t really get gender • A very slow and pensive quest for revenge
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The Dowry of Angyar – by Ursula K. Le Guin
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• First introduction to the Hainish Cycle • Folk-tale themes in a SF setting • Space princess seeks her heritage, at a price
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If Found, Return to Hell – by Em X. Liu
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• Magic bureucracy isn’t any better than its real couterpart • Cosy found family vibes • Second-person narration can indeed work well
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The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere – by John Chu
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• Water falls out of nowhere and works as a lie-detector • A coming out story with a magical premise
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Night’s Slow Poison – by Ann Leckie
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• A short story set in what will become the Imperial Radch universe • A claustrophobic journey through space and memory
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Babel-17 – by Samuel R. Delany
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• Whorfian linguistic relativity – IN SPACE! • In the midst of an interplanetary war, they called a poet
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Sorrowland – by Rivers Solomon
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• A Black albino teenager runs away from a religious cult • Fungal superpowers as a metaphor for generational trauma • Queer joy is messy and beautiful
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The Lathe of Heaven – by Ursula K. Le Guin
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• If your dreams can shape reality, be careful what you whish for • Utilitarianism leads to unsettling consequences • And let’s not forget some Taoist wisdom
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Breaking the Ribbon, Cutting the Ice
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Inaugurations, so I gather, are meant to be celebrated by performing some kind disruptive activity. This post may not necessarily count as one, but it’ll have to do.