the long way to a small angry planet sequel

Fair enough-luckily, Chambers' novel is perfect, delightful escapism to lift your spirits. Maybe you're just not ready to read heavy novels about the legacy of slavery in the US. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers Activists on the underground railroad are using airplanes to deliver slaves to freedom, and meanwhile, the United States is scarily similar to what it's like today. As the novel opens, it's 2016, and four Southern states still practice slavery.

Here, Lincoln was assassinated in 1861, the Civil War was never fought, and the US has taken a different path. Advertisementįurther Reading Underground Airlines is one of the bleakest alternate histories ever Earlier this year we gave a stellar review to Winters' novel, which ups the ante on alternate histories of American slavery by imagining that abolition never happened. Characters do recur, however, so if you want to encounter them in chronological order, feel free to start with Last First Snow and make your way up to Four Roads Cross. The good news is that you can read them in any order, because they stand on their own. You can tell the actual order from the number in the title (so this is the fifth novel released, but it's fourth in the cycle). Smart, funny, and action-packed, this is fantasy writing for people who love politics and economics.īecause Gladstone is a complete weirdo, he decided to write this series out of order, so the first novel is actually the third, the second is actually the first, and so on. Unfortunately, she already has her hands full trying to help a moon goddess recover control of her seized property, while her friends in the local police force are trying to stop a rash of demonic possessions.

Talented lawyer Tara Abernathy has to represent the interests of one whose creditors are trying to mount a hostile takeover of his church. Most of the gods in this world have been overthrown, but a few remain. election season This is the fifth standalone novel in Gladstone's utterly riveting Craft Sequence, a series about lawyers and financial experts in a world where magic takes the form of contractual obligations and market forces. Further Reading This science fiction novel is a perfect antidote to U.S.

The long way to a small angry planet sequel