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Nov. 7th, 2017 11:02 amKristin Cashore's Jane, Unlimited and Ann Leckie's Provenance! Which turned out to be a nice reading pair aside from the "obviously I want to read the shiny new book by these authors" part.
I had thought Provenance was going to be a totally new universe, but it turns out it's a standalone in the Radch universe. It's about totally different people on a different planet so you could probably read it without reading the Ancillary books and just miss some references/background knowledge, but why would you, the Ancillary books are fantastic.
Some very spoilery comments about Provenance behind this cut: ( Read more... )
I knew *nothing* about Jane, Unlimited when I picked it up, and I would like to strongly recommend that reading approach. I'm going to talk about it in super-spoilery detail behind this next cut but first I'm going to blather on for a bit so anyone coming in from the Provenance paragraph has the chance to bail out before they read something spoilery, blah blah, oh, I'll say one possibly useful thing which is that Jane, Unlimited has an instance of animal harm, heads up for that. Doop de doo. All ashore who are going ashore? Great. ( Read more... )
I had thought Provenance was going to be a totally new universe, but it turns out it's a standalone in the Radch universe. It's about totally different people on a different planet so you could probably read it without reading the Ancillary books and just miss some references/background knowledge, but why would you, the Ancillary books are fantastic.
Some very spoilery comments about Provenance behind this cut: ( Read more... )
I knew *nothing* about Jane, Unlimited when I picked it up, and I would like to strongly recommend that reading approach. I'm going to talk about it in super-spoilery detail behind this next cut but first I'm going to blather on for a bit so anyone coming in from the Provenance paragraph has the chance to bail out before they read something spoilery, blah blah, oh, I'll say one possibly useful thing which is that Jane, Unlimited has an instance of animal harm, heads up for that. Doop de doo. All ashore who are going ashore? Great. ( Read more... )
