[sethish]

I can't recommend the author's novels highly enough. Terra Ignota, the first book being Too Like the Lightning.

[roflc0ptic]

And the fourth and final one is coming out in August! I've started reading them out loud with my girlfriend. They're actually a little too complicated sentence-structure wise to be great for reading out loud, but whatever. It's lovely introducing her to Mycroft Canner.

[sethish]

The release was moved back to September 7th. The book ended up being 2x the length, and extra weird to typeset and translate to audiobook. I quite like the existing audiobooks. The narrator seems to be good with languages, and is familiar with the Iliad (Rage!)

[Symmetry]

Basically, what happens when a historian imagines a world 400 years in the future as different, socially, as we are from 400 years in the past.

[Banana699]

One of the most realistic and "real" worlds from a socio-historical pov I've ever read.. Palmer's world building does for history and sociology what peter watts does for biology and neuroscience.