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Fanpushing time! (kbin.social)
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OK, as a counter to my post about something you wanted to like but couldn’t get in to, what is something that you love and want to introduce to more people? (I nicknamed trying to get more people into your fandom as “fanpushing” a while back, hence the title)

For me, it’s the comic Saga. I love all the world building and the art, and how it’s continually setting up everything, but still manages to make we scream, “NO!” at everything happening because I’m so emotionally involved. I love the characters, the background, the invented languages (there’s a major one that is based on Esperanto), the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers and how things keep going even when that story meets its tragic ending because life goes on. It’s one of those gritty, crap sack world SF stories that focuses on the humanity (for lack of a better word) of the people in the world.

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[–] Izzy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've been trying to convince some people to read some books by Greg Egan, but it has been difficult as most people are not into the idea of basically reading a math, computer science, physics and biology textbook that also happens to have characters and a story. Although the story that is there does a great job at threading the interesting ideas and concepts together. Even with a tiny bit less of a story and it would be dreadfully dull even to me.

http://gregegan.net/

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

but it has been difficult as most people are not into the idea of basically reading a math, computer science, physics and biology textbook that also happens to have characters and a story

Hmm, you might have sold it to me.

Edit: already had diaspora queued up on kindle, will push it to the top

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the reminder. I really liked diaspora and permutation city, but I haven’t kept up with his work since!