05-12-2018, 08:02 AM | #16 |
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Rather than Stirling's "Novels of The Change" (Emberverse), I'd suggest the story they're based on Steven R. Boyett's _Ariel_ and _Elegy Beach_ --- the former has flaws typical of a first novel, but some interesting ideas.
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05-12-2018, 09:29 AM | #17 |
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Try the trilogy "The Breach", "Ghost Country", and "Deep Sky" by Patrick Lee.
Try "Wool" by Hugh Howey. Note that this series originally came out as a sequence of shorter reads, but they have been collected into one book - this omnibus is the one you want to get. |
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05-18-2018, 08:09 PM | #18 |
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Sleeping Beauties was good. End of the world in the hands of women
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05-19-2018, 06:19 AM | #19 |
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Hugh Howey's 'Wool'
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05-28-2018, 04:35 AM | #20 |
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The main characters in Time Shifters by Shanna Lauffey definitely fit the OP description. I've just noticed the first episode is going free at Smashwords.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/471396 It's self-contained but there are now 8 books in the series. Episode 8 was just released. |
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05-28-2018, 09:42 AM | #21 | |
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New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Manhattan is under water (sea levels have risen 50 feet) and people live and work in the upper stories of the city's skyscrapers. Skyscrapers are islands and streets have become canals. The book follows several of the inhabitants of one building, male and female. The main characters are all likable even some that seem self-centered at first. Robinson sometimes is given to some long expository passages which he mentions with a wink in the text: Quote:
https://locusmag.com/2017/04/gary-k-...ey-robinson-3/ |
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07-30-2018, 05:41 AM | #22 |
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I just finished up Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time, and it was both thoughtful and a lot of fun, if a touch misanthropic. The stumbling block for the OP (who obviously isn't around anymore), would be likable characters. They're in there, but the question at the heart of the novel is whether humanity deserves to survive in the first place, and what it would take for us to get over our destructive tendencies. So, no one in the book is without flaws.
Still, there are strong leads (and arguably villains) of both sexes, and it's both sci-fi and post-apocalyptic from an author who has mostly written fantasy. It operates on something like a 2500 year timescale, but has at least three sets of main characters throughout, each experiencing that span in different ways. |
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