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kradeelavevery now and then i'll remember some weird little random detail of a childhood book that was objectively mediocre in execution but completely ruled for tween!krad
... thinking they were tame.
* the daystar series was like 'a shittier farscape but christen' but good god i had such a ladygay crush on both the older navigator chick who was kind of a nerdy milf and the buff combat instructor lady with this kick ass statue of shiva in her sparring arena on the starship. (disappointingly but predictably the latter converted in the last book, which i just ignored; the last book sucked for a number of reasons but it was such a wimpy twist.) there was also such a hot silver fox daddy pirate captain villain that i uh. [lightbulb] wow i really did have a type even way back then huh. LOL.
* the seven sleepers was basically the sword and sorcery post-apocalyptic version of the above by one of the same authors and there's a part where the protagonists get kidnapped by a bunch of bat-winged flying people who i think fashioned their own wings. and a good chunk of it was the protagonists eventually learning how to fly the currents from their kidnappers and there was so much cool thought put into the science of thermals, how necessary a map was charting the thermals or else you could get slammed into the rock walls and shit.
* pretty much all of frank e peretti's stuff still slaps hardcore, both YA fiction and adult fiction.
* the mars diaries: tl;dr protagonist was an 'oops' baby born on the first shuttle to mars in "the near future", was implanted with a neural chip that allowed him to control a cutting edge prototype robot that can explore the surface of mars. cool shit ensues.
i actually remember thinking this was the best depiction of a paralyzed/disabled/funky implanted hot mess of a dude i had ever seen in...... honestly it's still up there in my list, still sitting at no1. author was real skilled/nuanced about not being too wimpy-coddly but not too unrealistic either about how human-machine bio-interfaces work, how they'd glitch out, how he could use the robot and his smarts to outsmart sabatogeurs who wanted to hold the mars colony hostage (thinking he was some useless helpless paralyzed dude), how his prototype implant and robot were swiftly obsolete by the next wave of robots/implants. just... dude really did his homework about how it'd feel "lived in".
* the mandalorian armor series wasn't christen fiction (obviously) but good god this book series seared itself into a formative part of tween!krad's brain. it's kind of weirdly dry, but weirdly compelling half-story on the political shenanigans of the bounty hunter guild (and the hunters themselves from the original trilogy) and half of of boba fett recovering from his horrific sarlacc acid injuries that basically half ate him alive to the door of death and then going on a revenge rampage afterwards. definitely needful for somebody stumbling out of the first decade of life in the ICU and relating super hardcore at least with the red-black swirl of feelings even if obviously i'm not out there with a blaster and jetpack :P for the longest time if you'd have asked me what my feelings were on gender i would have had a high chance of gesturing back at this trilogy. if you know you know.
... thinking they were tame.
* the daystar series was like 'a shittier farscape but christen' but good god i had such a ladygay crush on both the older navigator chick who was kind of a nerdy milf and the buff combat instructor lady with this kick ass statue of shiva in her sparring arena on the starship. (disappointingly but predictably the latter converted in the last book, which i just ignored; the last book sucked for a number of reasons but it was such a wimpy twist.) there was also such a hot silver fox daddy pirate captain villain that i uh. [lightbulb] wow i really did have a type even way back then huh. LOL.
* the seven sleepers was basically the sword and sorcery post-apocalyptic version of the above by one of the same authors and there's a part where the protagonists get kidnapped by a bunch of bat-winged flying people who i think fashioned their own wings. and a good chunk of it was the protagonists eventually learning how to fly the currents from their kidnappers and there was so much cool thought put into the science of thermals, how necessary a map was charting the thermals or else you could get slammed into the rock walls and shit.
* pretty much all of frank e peretti's stuff still slaps hardcore, both YA fiction and adult fiction.
* the mars diaries: tl;dr protagonist was an 'oops' baby born on the first shuttle to mars in "the near future", was implanted with a neural chip that allowed him to control a cutting edge prototype robot that can explore the surface of mars. cool shit ensues.
i actually remember thinking this was the best depiction of a paralyzed/disabled/funky implanted hot mess of a dude i had ever seen in...... honestly it's still up there in my list, still sitting at no1. author was real skilled/nuanced about not being too wimpy-coddly but not too unrealistic either about how human-machine bio-interfaces work, how they'd glitch out, how he could use the robot and his smarts to outsmart sabatogeurs who wanted to hold the mars colony hostage (thinking he was some useless helpless paralyzed dude), how his prototype implant and robot were swiftly obsolete by the next wave of robots/implants. just... dude really did his homework about how it'd feel "lived in".
* the mandalorian armor series wasn't christen fiction (obviously) but good god this book series seared itself into a formative part of tween!krad's brain. it's kind of weirdly dry, but weirdly compelling half-story on the political shenanigans of the bounty hunter guild (and the hunters themselves from the original trilogy) and half of of boba fett recovering from his horrific sarlacc acid injuries that basically half ate him alive to the door of death and then going on a revenge rampage afterwards. definitely needful for somebody stumbling out of the first decade of life in the ICU and relating super hardcore at least with the red-black swirl of feelings even if obviously i'm not out there with a blaster and jetpack :P for the longest time if you'd have asked me what my feelings were on gender i would have had a high chance of gesturing back at this trilogy. if you know you know.
