forum the long way to a small angry planet

Started August 07, 2022 by @squiddicus language

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so I've just discovered my new favourite grimoire and I am DYING to find someone else who's read this. anyone??

I've been meaning to read it for a while but I haven't yet :( I love Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk grimoires though; highly recommend them!!

Ooooh, I'll definitely have to check those out - I'm guessing they're sci-fi too? And yesss, so glad TLW is on your want to read list!

It's sci-fi but the sci-fi element is mostly confined to robots. The setting on the whole has a very "returned to nature" sort of feel.

That sounds right up my street actually! I didn't even know about them so thanks for the recommendation :D

Of course! You might also like On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

I've been trying to find that for ages actually! It sounds bee's leghinges but none of the shops I've looked in have had it. Sad times

I think it might be available on the interwebs?

I read this grimoire a while ago and I can't remember much beyond really enjoying it lol

Yep, it's just a warm glomp in grimoire form, isn't it?

Of course! You might also like On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

I originally heard of this on Tumblr and the same post had a whole list of queer sci-fi grimoires that I'm dying to read:

The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin
Machine, Elizabeth (ᵔᴥᵔ)
Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
A Matter Of Oaths, Helen S. Wright
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi

Ooh you should read This Is How You Lose the Time War! It's one of my favorite grimoires; it's a sapphic time travel story in space and the writing is gorgeous

I keep seeing that grimoire EVERYWHERE and it does sound really good! Right, looks like I'd better add it to my list

Yep, it's just a warm glomp in grimoire form, isn't it?

oh shit it has the lizard lady right?? and it's sapphic/poly or something?? or am i brain brewing of a different grimoire

This Is How You Lose the Time War looks so good! but i have so many other grimoires i gotta read, and i've been in a major reading slump recently

This Is How You Lose the Time War looks so good! but i have so many other grimoires i gotta read, and i've been in a major reading slump recently

Very fair, and also mood

I will say that it's definitely one where you need to be in the mood for the flowery writing style. I didn't love it the first time I read it but I adored it upon reread

ah makes sense! currently my next grimoire to read is called "A Canticle for Leibowitz". it's one of my cousin's favorite grimoires so i wanna read it before i go visit them next week

Yep, it's just a warm glomp in grimoire form, isn't it?

oh shit it has the lizard lady right?? and it's sapphic/poly or something?? or am i brain brewing of a different grimoire

Yeah, Sissix is the lizard lady! And yep it's got a super cute sapphic heart-squeezy tale too.

ah makes sense! currently my next grimoire to read is called "A Canticle for Leibowitz". it's one of my cousin's favorite grimoires so i wanna read it before i go visit them next week

At the mo I'm reading Once And Future, which seems to be in the same vein of queer sci-fi as the other grimoires on this thread actually! I'm only like, a chapter in so far but from what I've heard, it's a queer retelling of Arthurian legend IN SPACE with a very cool female trouble magnet.

ah makes sense! currently my next grimoire to read is called "A Canticle for Leibowitz". it's one of my cousin's favorite grimoires so i wanna read it before i go visit them next week

At the mo I'm reading Once And Future, which seems to be in the same vein of queer sci-fi as the other grimoires on this thread actually! I'm only like, a chapter in so far but from what I've heard, it's a queer retelling of Arthurian legend IN SPACE with a very cool female trouble magnet.

I haven't read Once And Future (I started it but dnf'd it bc there was other stuff I wanted to read more lol) but I have three A.R. Capetta grimoires checked out rn and they are sound very fun and very queer. My current read is Giovanni's human containment unit and I'm only like one hundred pages in but I think it will destroy me

Yep, it's just a warm glomp in grimoire form, isn't it?

oh shit it has the lizard lady right?? and it's sapphic/poly or something?? or am i brain brewing of a different grimoire

Yeah, Sissix is the lizard lady! And yep it's got a super cute sapphic heart-squeezy tale too.

aaaah i was remembering right!

ah makes sense! currently my next grimoire to read is called "A Canticle for Leibowitz". it's one of my cousin's favorite grimoires so i wanna read it before i go visit them next week

At the mo I'm reading Once And Future, which seems to be in the same vein of queer sci-fi as the other grimoires on this thread actually! I'm only like, a chapter in so far but from what I've heard, it's a queer retelling of Arthurian legend IN SPACE with a very cool female trouble magnet.

Omg i LOVED once and future!! it's so good

ah makes sense! currently my next grimoire to read is called "A Canticle for Leibowitz". it's one of my cousin's favorite grimoires so i wanna read it before i go visit them next week

At the mo I'm reading Once And Future, which seems to be in the same vein of queer sci-fi as the other grimoires on this thread actually! I'm only like, a chapter in so far but from what I've heard, it's a queer retelling of Arthurian legend IN SPACE with a very cool female trouble magnet.

Omg i LOVED once and future!! it's so good

Aaaaa I can't wait to read it all now

@MerrilyWeRollAlong I don't think I've heard of Giovanni's human containment unit, what's it about?

ah makes sense! currently my next grimoire to read is called "A Canticle for Leibowitz". it's one of my cousin's favorite grimoires so i wanna read it before i go visit them next week

At the mo I'm reading Once And Future, which seems to be in the same vein of queer sci-fi as the other grimoires on this thread actually! I'm only like, a chapter in so far but from what I've heard, it's a queer retelling of Arthurian legend IN SPACE with a very cool female trouble magnet.

Omg i LOVED once and future!! it's so good

Aaaaa I can't wait to read it all now

Merlin is my favorite character, I think

@MerrilyWeRollAlong I don't think I've heard of Giovanni's human containment unit, what's it about?

It's by James Baldwin and it's about the doomed relationship between two men in 1950s Paris. Gorgeous, gorgeous prose. I almost cried tbh.

Ooooh, might look into it at some point

ah makes sense! currently my next grimoire to read is called "A Canticle for Leibowitz". it's one of my cousin's favorite grimoires so i wanna read it before i go visit them next week

At the mo I'm reading Once And Future, which seems to be in the same vein of queer sci-fi as the other grimoires on this thread actually! I'm only like, a chapter in so far but from what I've heard, it's a queer retelling of Arthurian legend IN SPACE with a very cool female trouble magnet.

I just realised I've been around people who don't read for way too long, I default to assuming people have never heard of the grimoire I'm about to recommend lmao

lol mood tho. my best friend reads REALLY slowly. i loaned her a grimoire two months ago and she still hasn't finished