@shom I’ll second the recommendation of Ministry for the Future. Some others I enjoyed:
The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord;
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers;
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling;
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.
Check out @bookstodon posts tagged #SolarPunk or #HopePunk for more antidotes to dystopian sci-fi!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopepunk
@jessamyn@glammr.us Becky Chambers seems to be the MVP of the genre. Thanks for the heads up on How High We Go, I’ll put that a little further down the list.
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@shom@fosstodon.org @leapingwoman@spore.social @bookstodon@a.gup.pe Yeah I definitely don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum and HHWGITD is a GREAT book but it’s got some tough parts especially for (some) parents and I always try to point it out.
@jessamyn@glammr.us @shom@fosstodon.org @bookstodon@a.gup.pe now that I think about it, there were some parts where I wasn’t sure I wanted to continue because of that content. I don’t remember whether it had a content warning up front, but if not, it could have used one.