Sally Strange on Nostr: nprofile1q…9kyj5 Couple of recs. 1) Circus Infinite by Khan Wong. Debut novel, I ...
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1) Circus Infinite by Khan Wong. Debut novel, I loved listening to it. As the name suggests it's a story about a kid who runs away to join a multi-species circus on a different planet. It's scifi but it's kinda fantasy too? Don't know how else to describe the element of sentient stars being part of the universe. Anyway it's fun, whimsical, exciting, and, unusually, has a protagonist who is asexual. Good found-family vibes too.
2) The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline. A more serious book but it is explicitly YA, the main characters are Anishinaabe teenagers trying to survive in a distressingly climate-altered Canada, where white people have stopped dreaming and started going mad because of it. The indigenous people can still dream, most of them, so of course the settlers try to lock them up to somehow scientifically extract their dreams and keep them for themselves. Despite the grim setting, it has heart, charm, amazing relationships, and a hopeful denouement.
1) Circus Infinite by Khan Wong. Debut novel, I loved listening to it. As the name suggests it's a story about a kid who runs away to join a multi-species circus on a different planet. It's scifi but it's kinda fantasy too? Don't know how else to describe the element of sentient stars being part of the universe. Anyway it's fun, whimsical, exciting, and, unusually, has a protagonist who is asexual. Good found-family vibes too.
2) The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline. A more serious book but it is explicitly YA, the main characters are Anishinaabe teenagers trying to survive in a distressingly climate-altered Canada, where white people have stopped dreaming and started going mad because of it. The indigenous people can still dream, most of them, so of course the settlers try to lock them up to somehow scientifically extract their dreams and keep them for themselves. Despite the grim setting, it has heart, charm, amazing relationships, and a hopeful denouement.