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I've been trying to go to the library and read more but I'm out of ideas for what to read next. Help plz.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If you like soft scifi then I recommend the Imperial Radch trilogy. Featuring:

Protagonist with a very interesting backstory (it's the point of like half of the first book so I won't spoil)
A post-gender (?) empire
A dictator with a networked consciousness so she can be present everywhere
Default she/her pronouns
The one true throuple (I ship it!)
A kind of boring middle book
Body and brain horror?
WEIRD aliens! (although you only see them through their proxies)
Good old aristocracy in space
Like almost no one is white
Set thousands of years in the future

edit: everyone is recommending scifi lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's because scifi is the best genre

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How dare you say something so controversial yet so true rage-cry

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

"yeah I'm gonna read a book about just like a guy who lives in an apartment in New York and is sad or some shit"

statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged