had a very good day, despite early aggravation. went to see the Spiderman movie, which despite not passing the Bechdel test was quite good, and very funny. had a reasonably good lunch at Red Robin, and a very good dinner at home (salmon and rice--plain, but good comfort food), and am now absorbed re-reading the Ancillary Justice series, which btw I unreservedly and wholeheartedly recommend to everybody reading this, *yes I mean you in particular*.
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the main character of Ancillary Justice is an "ancillary," a human body repurposed into being essentially a physical component of a spaceship, who loses the rest of herself, and has to come to terms with being singular, not a spaceship, and what happened to make her that way.
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@green It's my second favorite scifi novel series of all time. Can't squee enough about it! The audio books are also excellent.
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@mawr ooh--what's your first? if it rates second below AJ, I really want to read it! XD
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@mawr I meant *first above* AJ ugh typos XD
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@green Hee! My first is still Hitchhiker's Guide, but only just barely. :3
@mawr oooh, yeah, that makes sense. XD I don't really rank them, but my top 10 list includes those two and also Book of the New Sun, the Jhereg series, the Discworld series (leaning over into SF/F here), and the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms trilogy. there's lots of others I really like, too!
@Jacel Definitely, yeah. I have been re-reading Excession and there's lots of variants of Minds in that one. :-)
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it deals very intelligently and respectfully with:
* grief
* addiction
* gender assumptions (the default gender is "she" and to this day on re-reading it I still don't know what gender most of the main characters "really" are)
* systematic injustice
* systematic racism
and a whole bunch of other stuff. I would seriously buy a copy of the trilogy and send it to everybody here if I could, it's that damn good.