Thank you for the interesting reviews. Is there anyone around these days who is writing (interestingly) about fairly ordinary characters in fairly ordinary situations, SF or otherwise?
Pessimistic me thinks that they are but not getting published :( I think there are books that have characters who are not the most special (I think in some ways Piranesi, which I loved, is this; also Grady Henrix's The Southern Bookclub's Guide to Slaying Vampires, although neither of these are "fairly ordinary situations"!). Some of the middle grade/YA contemporary books I've read this year - Rebecca Lim's Tiger Daughter and Angie Thomas' books, for example, but then not SF. I find it very difficult to think of any recent books similar to say Planetes, for mundane sf about the non exceptional, and even that has some drama in the plot. But overall I do think manga does this better - I can't think of a lit fic book similar to say Taniguchi's The Walking Man, for example.
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Date: 2021-11-21 08:21 pm (UTC)Pessimistic me thinks that they are but not getting published :( I think there are books that have characters who are not the most special (I think in some ways Piranesi, which I loved, is this; also Grady Henrix's The Southern Bookclub's Guide to Slaying Vampires, although neither of these are "fairly ordinary situations"!). Some of the middle grade/YA contemporary books I've read this year - Rebecca Lim's Tiger Daughter and Angie Thomas' books, for example, but then not SF. I find it very difficult to think of any recent books similar to say Planetes, for mundane sf about the non exceptional, and even that has some drama in the plot. But overall I do think manga does this better - I can't think of a lit fic book similar to say Taniguchi's The Walking Man, for example.