I wanna add to the little librarian heart thread! I just finished Autonomous, and to echo juushika's enthusiasm less eloquently: WOW.
You could not have given me a better sci fi romp or one attuned to my interests. Apart from the robot aspects, I am myself a synthetic biologist who cares a great deal about open science & free software & anti-IP work. Like, my first week at college I met my first major crush via invitation to a free culture meetup, so I'm basically Jack but less cool (so far), is what I'm saying.
Which is not at all to downplay the trans/robot aspects, which is currently giving me a lot of thoughts about, oh, miscommunication & assumptions as a fundamental(?) tenet of human relations. The Eliasz/Paladin relationship has a lot of bits to think about, obvi: how Eliasz didn't have to wrestle homophobia down for a...certainly queer relationship, how Paladin's internal pronouns changed in response to Eliasz's gender questions/assumptions. Neither of those are Sanctioned Good Queer Things but are very plausibly realistic things! So, yes, MANY feelings, thank you!
(I do hope someday Becky Chambers' will come thru from my library hold, but it might be...a while still).
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You could not have given me a better sci fi romp or one attuned to my interests. Apart from the robot aspects, I am myself a synthetic biologist who cares a great deal about open science & free software & anti-IP work. Like, my first week at college I met my first major crush via invitation to a free culture meetup, so I'm basically Jack but less cool (so far), is what I'm saying.
Which is not at all to downplay the trans/robot aspects, which is currently giving me a lot of thoughts about, oh, miscommunication & assumptions as a fundamental(?) tenet of human relations. The Eliasz/Paladin relationship has a lot of bits to think about, obvi: how Eliasz didn't have to wrestle homophobia down for a...certainly queer relationship, how Paladin's internal pronouns changed in response to Eliasz's gender questions/assumptions. Neither of those are Sanctioned Good Queer Things but are very plausibly realistic things! So, yes, MANY feelings, thank you!
(I do hope someday Becky Chambers' will come thru from my library hold, but it might be...a while still).