sequels to Hugo nominees
Jul. 18th, 2017 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraPaper Girls 2, comic. The main new conceit of this volume (as set up at the end of volume 1) is a hugely compelling premise for me. I kind of wish they'd been able to hit it harder/dig in deeper... I mean, the emotional tone was in keeping with the rest of the comic, but. Dude. Way to concretize what happens to be one of my core emotional conflicts. Maybe there'll be fic? Maybe I'll write some?
Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee. My reaction is under the cut, as is a GIANT MASSIVE PLOT SPOILER. Sufficient warning? MAJOR SPOILERS HERE? I really liked it, and I'm fascinated to read the next one. I feel like big "let's change the underlying premises" climaxes are more usually series climaxes than something we get partway through, and I'm so excited that we actually get a whole next book to explore the fallout/new conditions/etc. Like I guess Buffy did the comics, but I never read past the first several, so I still think of "can stand up, will stand up" as The End of it, and, I don't know, what's another big canonical premise change. The departure of the elves/all the instances of that, that's always the end of the story. I guess we'll see how big a change this turns out to be - maybe it won't feel like one - but it seems like it could be.
Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee. My reaction is under the cut, as is a GIANT MASSIVE PLOT SPOILER. Sufficient warning? MAJOR SPOILERS HERE? I really liked it, and I'm fascinated to read the next one. I feel like big "let's change the underlying premises" climaxes are more usually series climaxes than something we get partway through, and I'm so excited that we actually get a whole next book to explore the fallout/new conditions/etc. Like I guess Buffy did the comics, but I never read past the first several, so I still think of "can stand up, will stand up" as The End of it, and, I don't know, what's another big canonical premise change. The departure of the elves/all the instances of that, that's always the end of the story. I guess we'll see how big a change this turns out to be - maybe it won't feel like one - but it seems like it could be.
