Finder Chronicles by Suzanne Palmer
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Driving the Deep
The Scavenger Door
3/5. Series of adventures by a galactic repo man who variously bounces around settled human space finding things and getting smacked around for his trouble
These books were on my radar, but I didn’t actually pick them up until some chucklefuck on Twitter was complaining about how “cozy” scifi is getting, and named these books as offenders. Thanks, I thought, I’ll take that anti-rec. But it turns out, you guys will be shocked, but it turns out that chucklefucks are not very good at reading, because these books don’t fit most definitions of cozy I’ve ever considered. If anything, they have a distinctly old-fashioned bent with the lone wolf protagonist carting around his massive childhood trauma and, repeatedly, collecting young women into his orbit only to patronizingly fret at them about their safety.
I will say the arc of these books is sort of towards family/community, which I guess could be what the chucklefuck deemed unacceptably cozy. But mostly they’re just light space adventures with alien intrigue and lots of space habitat setting work, and an occasional interest in beating up the hero for fun. Oh, and there is a cat. Maybe that’s what the chucklefuck was so mad about.
Content notes: Suicide of a parent, violence, alien abduction.
Driving the Deep
The Scavenger Door
3/5. Series of adventures by a galactic repo man who variously bounces around settled human space finding things and getting smacked around for his trouble
These books were on my radar, but I didn’t actually pick them up until some chucklefuck on Twitter was complaining about how “cozy” scifi is getting, and named these books as offenders. Thanks, I thought, I’ll take that anti-rec. But it turns out, you guys will be shocked, but it turns out that chucklefucks are not very good at reading, because these books don’t fit most definitions of cozy I’ve ever considered. If anything, they have a distinctly old-fashioned bent with the lone wolf protagonist carting around his massive childhood trauma and, repeatedly, collecting young women into his orbit only to patronizingly fret at them about their safety.
I will say the arc of these books is sort of towards family/community, which I guess could be what the chucklefuck deemed unacceptably cozy. But mostly they’re just light space adventures with alien intrigue and lots of space habitat setting work, and an occasional interest in beating up the hero for fun. Oh, and there is a cat. Maybe that’s what the chucklefuck was so mad about.
Content notes: Suicide of a parent, violence, alien abduction.