/lit/ - Literature

>>21531969

>military history book
>introduction by a military guy praising the armed forces instead of discussing the book

Best Novel: The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal
>On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process.
>Elma York’s experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition’s attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn’t take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can’t go into space, too.
>Elma’s drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.

Best Novella: Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells
>It has a dark past – one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.
>Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.
>What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…

>trusting a woman in her twenties to be serious about love and commitment in the current cultural climate
>trusting a woman who can replace you at any time with an infinite array of handsomer, taller, cooler, richer suitors with more exciting vocations and social networks to remain hooked on the infatuation she accidentally felt for you because you snagged her when she was rebounding and hormonal
>trusting a woman to commit to you forever and mean "I love you" the way you meant it, when she's like a kid in a candy store until she's at least 26~
>not laughing that you are now older and wiser and she's just down 30-40% of her viable eggs
>not laughing that you just drove her 4 years closer to infertility and all she has to show for it is a looser cunt and more wrinkles

I need to a good story, modern, and something *worth* reading.

Something like Lolita. I enjoy flowery, purple prose.

Recc me, I'm hella fucking bored.