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May. 10th, 2020 04:21 pmI am not an email newsletter person (I mostly find them annoying), but I absolutely love the Tor.com newsletter. They do a great job of covering all speculative fiction interests (mostly books, but also movies and TV and some comics), not just stuff they themselves publish. And in almost every edition, there's at least one thing I want to read. Sometimes it's Jo Walton's list of the books she read that month, sometimes it's a celebration of a Robin McKinley book I haven't read since I was a teenager (there was recently one about The Door in the Hedge that inspired me to reread it, sometimes it's about queer representation or the ways that black characters are always sidekicks and never heroes of their own stories in the specfic world. I originally signed up because they send you out a free ebook link once a month, but I'm so glad I did because it's such a rich resource.
Yesterday's edition just happened to have an article about Martha Wells' Books of the Raksura series, the first book of which, The Cloud Roads, I recently read. That in itself was a serendipitous delight, but I really enjoyed the content of the article! "You Can’t Eat Something That Talks: People and Cultures in Martha Wells’ Books of the Raksura" is a celebration of the marvelous, exciting world-building in the series and sums up the characters in the book with: None of them are human. All of them are people. Which I think is just perfect.
Also, if you like short fiction (I am not so much a short fiction person, but I know a lot of you are!), there is always at least one piece of short original fiction in the newsletter. If you are into speculative fiction at all, I really recommend going to Tor.com and subscribing!
Yesterday's edition just happened to have an article about Martha Wells' Books of the Raksura series, the first book of which, The Cloud Roads, I recently read. That in itself was a serendipitous delight, but I really enjoyed the content of the article! "You Can’t Eat Something That Talks: People and Cultures in Martha Wells’ Books of the Raksura" is a celebration of the marvelous, exciting world-building in the series and sums up the characters in the book with: None of them are human. All of them are people. Which I think is just perfect.
Also, if you like short fiction (I am not so much a short fiction person, but I know a lot of you are!), there is always at least one piece of short original fiction in the newsletter. If you are into speculative fiction at all, I really recommend going to Tor.com and subscribing!
