Hey! I just saw that Ann Leckie has published a new book! Translation State, it's called. I am currently finishing up Ada Palmer's terra Ignota series - have we discussed these before? - but that will be next on my list. 

Last edited by Kokipy (6/06/2023 8:39 am)

I’ve started Translation State, and am enjoying it a lot.  Only 78 pages in, so things are just starting. 

I just finished Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series.  Not really a series; 4 volumes, one story.  Curious if anyone else here has read it.  There is much to admire, but I find myself thinking there is WAY too much in it:  war, peace, gender issues, religions of various unusual sorts, space, exploration of the human mind, cannibalism, torture (off screen for the most part), Hobbes, Locke, the Enlightenment as seen through the 2400’s perspective, many languages including Latin and Ancient Greek, the Iliad, the Oddessy, magic, miracles, and so on and so on. It is rich, and all these threads are essential to the story,  but maybe its just too too bloated. I dunno. She is a professor at University of Chicago, I think in history and/or philosophy.  My first cousin once removed, a young man of 30 or so, who took courses with her in his Master of Liberal Arts course at UChi, recommended the book to me. I am a bit hesitant to discuss it with him, as my feelings are mixed and I think his were wholly admiring. 

Well, it is an amazing work. Surtac I am not quite sure what to think about it. I remember reading the first one some time ago, and either I didn’t like it then enough to keep on, or, more likely since I am a completionist, she hadn’t finished it all. I am not sorry to have pushed through this time. I would enjoy discussing it with someone,  but I know you have quite a tower of books tbr.

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