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Second in my list of #ComfortBooks is the #ArabeskTrilogy by #JonCourtneyGrimwood that starts with #Pashazade, a #Cyberpunk #AlternateHistory #MurderMystery novel set in the North African free city of El Iskandriya in a world where the Ottoman Empire is still a world power.
While I love the cyberpunk classics like #Neuromancer, Heavy Weather and Snow Crash, the Arabesk Trilogy is the one I return to most often, with accidental hero 'Raf and his speed fueled fox companion
This is also the series with references that introduced me to Godspeed You Black Emperor and Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps. Thank you JCG
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/72085/pashazade-by-jon-courtenay-grimwood/
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CW: Long Post
I seem to be posting more about books since I joined Mastodon, so I thought I might start posting about my favourite #comfortbooks. Maybe one a day or so until I run out.
My first and favourite is #Hild by #NicolaGriffith
A fictional account of the real St Hilda of Whitby. I read this at least once a year and never tire of it. It is gentle and bloody, comforting and confronting. The writing is exquisite and matched to the setting and time, and opening it at any page will lose me in Hild's world. The sequel, Menewood, is due for release later this year. You will need to refer to the glossary (unless you are a mediaeval historian).
Nicola has also written amazing feminist SF (check out Ammonite and Slow River) and crime / mystery novels (the Aud Torvingen novels starting with The Blue Place).
https://nicolagriffith.com/2022/11/17/hild-menewood-and-meanwood/