Tag: POC-authored
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If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
If I Had Your Face strikes similar notes of melancholy to the other Korean literature I’ve read despite being written in English.
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The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
I’m back at it after a monthlong absence with praise for the finale of the Broken Earth trilogy.
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The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
This series is picking up momentum with a looming Final Fantasy-esque existential threat from the moon.
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The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
I liked this book much more than the other N.K. Jemisin series I tried, but I still wasn’t convinced until the big narrative twist.
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
I didn’t register this book as dystopian fiction when I read it. So many of its ‘dystopian’ qualities reflect aspects of everyday life in a world afflicted by a pandemic and late-stage capitalism.
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The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
I didn’t hate it, but I think the single best descriptor for it is “unsubtle.”
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