As for recs...I heartily recommend Amanda Downum's The Bone Palace--one of the two POV protags, Savedra, is a trans woman, and she's portrayed as nuanced and utterly competent. Also, the setting is evocative of Renaissance/Enlightenment Turkey and Eastern Europe. The other protag is an awesome lady as well. It is, however, incredibly dark fantasy in tone, in case that is not your cuppa.
In light of Andrea Hairston's latest book, Redwood and Wildfire, winning the Tiptree, I recommend her first book, Mindscape, as I've not read R&W yet. Be warned that I'm a bit biased as she was a prof of mine and I read an early draft, but Mindscape has fantastic worldbuilding and depicts a wonderfully complex POC-centric future.
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Date: 2012-03-11 01:23 pm (UTC)As for recs...I heartily recommend Amanda Downum's The Bone Palace--one of the two POV protags, Savedra, is a trans woman, and she's portrayed as nuanced and utterly competent. Also, the setting is evocative of Renaissance/Enlightenment Turkey and Eastern Europe. The other protag is an awesome lady as well. It is, however, incredibly dark fantasy in tone, in case that is not your cuppa.
In light of Andrea Hairston's latest book, Redwood and Wildfire, winning the Tiptree, I recommend her first book, Mindscape, as I've not read R&W yet. Be warned that I'm a bit biased as she was a prof of mine and I read an early draft, but Mindscape has fantastic worldbuilding and depicts a wonderfully complex POC-centric future.