Suggestions for 2025 Reading
- Beth Gatewood
- Jul 22, 2024
- 1 min read
If you have any suggestions for our 2025 meetings, please reply to this post with them so Jess and I can keep them in mind when setting up the schedule.
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Another would be Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey. He's mostly known for his Thursday Next series. Shades of Grey is about a fascist society based on what colors the people see. Everyone's color blind to at least one color. The more you can see, the higher your status. Which hue you can see determines what your job is.
I read the first book a long time ago. I stumbled upon a recent sequel which made me think about it.
We occasionally teeter into Fantasy, like with Discworld. So some of Tim Powers's stuff might be good. It's definitely modern fantasy. But the way the magic is described, sometimes it feels like there's a science to the magic. My favorites of his don't usually actually talk about a connection to quantum mechanics, but some do.
Two of his biggest books are Anubis Gates and Last Call.
Three Days to Never steps a little more into SF, IIRC.
A lot of his books involve "secret history", but not about people who are the usual topics of SF, like Hitler. More minor people, like Lawrence of Arabia, Einstein, or William Randolph Hearst.
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