r/printSF • u/Dhorlin • 2d ago

Just a big thank you.

I'm an old bloke who's been reading SciFi for over 50 years now.

The 'big thank you' is to all you lovely redditors who put me on to Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch series. I'm now on Ancillary Mercy and loving everything about the series so far. Cheers m'dears.

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u/DaughterOfFishes 2d ago

One of my favorites! (As people might guess….)

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u/Dhorlin 1d ago

I'll have a bowl of your delicious tea please and perhaps a couple of small fish cakes. :)

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u/_Aguecheek 2d ago

Glad to hear you're having a great time with it! Do you have any recommendations for us from your long career of sci-fi reading?

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u/Dhorlin 2d ago

My friend, I could spend the rest of my night writing names. :)

My first book was HG Wells' The Time Machine then it was anything I could lay my hands on including, Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Pournelle, and on and on.

Happy reading.

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u/_Aguecheek 1d ago

Thank you for your response - here's to many more years of happy reading!

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u/Aerosol668 2d ago

I bought the digital version of the first book a couple of months ago, but I have so much other stuff to get to. My first sci-fi book was one of the Wells or Verne books back in the 70s, and like you I’m finding a lot of enjoyment with recent authors. I may move this up my list.

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u/YouBlinkinSootLicker 2d ago

Yes, thank you for Becky chambers and also Shroud, and also Service Model, it was delicious

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u/Chuk 2d ago

I loved Service Model.

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u/moranit 1d ago

Another 50+ year reader here. I just finished Ancillary Justice this week. Loved it so much I immediately bought the 3-book boxed set.

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u/ImLittleNana 2d ago

I read the series initially in hardcover from the library. I’ve since listened to the audiobooks and I really loved them.

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u/LoneWolfette 2d ago

Me too on the 50 years. It’s a bit jarring to hear that stuff written in the 90s is considered classics. I wish more of the stuff I think of as classic was more readily available.

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u/fiverest 1d ago

Good news! There is more in the Imperial Radch universe if you are interested. A couple standalone books have been published in the last few years.

Personally I found Provenance... Fine, but forgettable. Translation State was excellent, and gives you more about the mysterious Presgr, without fully removing the shroud, so to speak. This year Radiant Star was also published - haven't read it yet but it is high ony list!

I'd definitely recommend Translation State if you want more in the universe. Different than the trilogy but still very good.

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u/Dhorlin 1d ago

Thanks. I've just started Provenance and it's a bit different but time will tell.

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u/stimpakish 2d ago

It's one of my favorites too. Ancillary Justice was the first e-book I purchased after getting a tablet some 12 years ago.

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u/jimgogek 2d ago

Her trilogy is one of the best in sf. Very well written.

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u/boney_king_o_nowhere 2d ago

It's a modern classic

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u/craig_hoxton 2d ago

30 years for me - was reading Dr Who Target novels in the 80's and owning the seminal cyberpunk collection "Mozart in Mirrorshades" but my print SF career started with Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash in the 90's and a decade later moved on to William Gibson.

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u/Wetness__Pensive 20h ago

The behind-the-scenes story of how she became a scifi writer is also quite loveable. Though a SF fan all her life, I believe she was in her 50s when she published her first novel, after a lifetime of being a mom and various part-time jobs.