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The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
4.0

You either like Annalee Newitz or you don't. They are uniquely both subtle and in your face about class, capitalism, and the surveillance state. They’re both angry and optimistic, jaded and sweetly innocent, incredibly complicated and devastatingly simple.

Personally, I love the imagination and audacity of their storytelling and all the competing ideas and feelings they brings to the table. I like the way they write, and I like the way their books engage me on so many levels.

In this ancient northern city, survivors of the Lefthand Massacre weren't simply traumatized refugees. They became memes that hurtled across the galaxy. And the story of their experiences became cosmic radiation, ripping minuscule but dangerous holes in structures of power that had stood for thousands of years.