I really like Scott Westerfeld's space opera Succession (also in two books as The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds), which has fighter pilots, zombies, lesbian alien lovers, and much more! When I got it it was going OOP, but I think it may have been reissued... It starts really slowly because of the POV switching, but I found sticking around worthwhile.
This is also old and OOP, but a lot of people like Jane Emerson's City of Diamond. It's part of an unfinished series, which is annoying, but has character and politics. I don't remember much of it, but Mely and Yoon and Rachel all rec it.
And you may have already read them, but Ann Maxwell's SF is very fun but sadly OOP. (She now writes romances as Elizabeth Lowell.) The prose is very purple, but her worldbuilding is on crack, and her gender stuff in her SF is much better than in her romances. My fav is Dead God Dancing, although Jaws of Menx has an unintentionally hilarious melting disease and the unfinished Fire Dancer series has UST like whoa.
Manga-wise, the OOP Planet Ladder is a blend of space opera and Japanese mythology (Princess Kaguya), and it also has a robot chicken and an unintentionally hilarious disease that involves randomly falling off body parts.
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Date: 2010-05-24 11:11 pm (UTC)I really like Scott Westerfeld's space opera Succession (also in two books as The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds), which has fighter pilots, zombies, lesbian alien lovers, and much more! When I got it it was going OOP, but I think it may have been reissued... It starts really slowly because of the POV switching, but I found sticking around worthwhile.
This is also old and OOP, but a lot of people like Jane Emerson's City of Diamond. It's part of an unfinished series, which is annoying, but has character and politics. I don't remember much of it, but Mely and Yoon and Rachel all rec it.
And you may have already read them, but Ann Maxwell's SF is very fun but sadly OOP. (She now writes romances as Elizabeth Lowell.) The prose is very purple, but her worldbuilding is on crack, and her gender stuff in her SF is much better than in her romances. My fav is Dead God Dancing, although Jaws of Menx has an unintentionally hilarious melting disease and the unfinished Fire Dancer series has UST like whoa.
Manga-wise, the OOP Planet Ladder is a blend of space opera and Japanese mythology (Princess Kaguya), and it also has a robot chicken and an unintentionally hilarious disease that involves randomly falling off body parts.