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cahn ([personal profile] cahn) wrote2023-04-29 09:45 pm

One more novella under the wire

Novelette rec from [personal profile] psocoptera which will be going on my ballot which I am filling out right now, darn it:

To Embody a Wildfire Starting, Iona Datt Sharma, Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

I mean... basically I will just read anything by Iona Datt Sharma and put it on my ballot if reminded; they are just so thoughtful and always asking interesting and compassionate questions. This is a secondary-world fantasy about demi-human-dragons (it's not at all like Earthsea but I think it's a little in conversation with it) and rebuilding after seizing power back from an extremist takeover, and I really liked it.

ETA: Also of note for nominators is that Spear (Griffith) is a novel, not a novella as I had thought!
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[personal profile] brainwane 2023-04-30 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
The Sharma is SO GOOD!!

[personal profile] cenozoicsynapsid 2023-04-30 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you read The Mimicking of Known Successes? I didn't love it as much as I loved the Infomocracy trilogy (a high bar though), but I thought some people here are likely to have read it.
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[personal profile] sophia_sol 2023-04-30 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
YES I loved To Embody a Wildfire Starting and I absolutely nominated it too!!! I am always impressed Iona Datt Sharma's writing, and this one is particularly good I think