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The City We Became (openlibrary.org)
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I have been on a kick recently looking at novels where ideas become "entities" and this novel is an interesting look at what constitutes a "city".

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have never read Jemisin, but from what you said, maybe you would enjoy The City and the City by Mieville.

[–] caseyweederman 2 points 1 year ago

I found it! I had to browse this community from a separate instance in the browser and tell my Lemmy client to open the permalink on your comment before it would show up.
Anyway I'm a fan of both Jemisin and Mieville and would encourage you to read some Jemisin. Maybe not as gritty and grimy but still really good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the recommendation, I will check it out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like an idiot… it took me days to figure out that Jemisin is also the author of the Broken Earth trilogy, that I read and really enjoyed. Somehow I did not merge the two.

[–] caseyweederman 1 points 1 year ago

I can't see the other comment since logging in because ??federation?? but as someone who has read both this book and The City and the City by China Mieville, I would like to agree that you would enjoy the latter as well.

While The World We Make (Become's sequel) didn't live up to my hopes, I will still buy anything with Jemisin's name on it.