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Originally Posted by RDaneel54
I've really enjoyed books by two authors I've discovered in the last year. Connie Willis, many Hugo and Nebula award winner, has a quirky writing style. People may die in her books, but it is part of life after all. As are good things that happen even with tragedy around.
The other author is Nathan Lowell. His Solar Clipper Trader Tales are reminiscent (not identical or derivative) of early Robert A. Heinlein. Again, life's joys, challenges and tragedies play out.
In both cases, the dystopia where there is no good, the best is a murky grey, is not the overarching theme. I like hope, not despair, from the books I read. YMMV
Dean
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I was thinking about
this as an example of fun fiction. It gave me the general feeling of light reading, depicting a society different enough from our own to be interesting, with amusing dialogue and characters, and I was about to recommend it to MrsJoseph when I remembered that the main character gets tortured in the first book (the one that I linked to was followed by two others, and I see that there is another one to be published this year). The thing is that after the torture the main character decides to trust his friends and his own ability and becomes the hero (fixing the problem that he helped creating by mistake), and goes on to be the all around good guy.
But maybe people would consider it gritty.