Asking for recommendations of books or series of books from the genres fantasy & scifi mostly that are sort of escapist and nice/fun to read.

I use audiobooks for my sleep as audh and have listened to the Discworld novels for that for some time now, but I can't really handle the individual angle and especially the way he writes about womens bodies anymore. Also this is my third round of it unless I find an alternative. Last night got to the point in Unseen Academicals where he felt the need to make sure every reader knows that nobody, absolutely nobody found the fat girl attractive & I just can't do this to myself anymore.

And the same goes for reading other fiction. I have read my Steinbecks and Asimovs long ago, have read most of Stephen King even though he is vey much ultralib, but I love horror. Tolkien, scifi classics, horror classics and such I have all read, but am struggling to find modern fiction that is written from a leftist pov even a little.

Any recommendations on this and on the night-night audiobook series would be so so welcome.

  • Iraglassceiling [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    His Dark Materials.

    A little girl goes up against the fascist church-state to save her friend and encounters theoretical physics and/or God. Also featuring: talking bears, a scientist on the edge, and gay angels.

    10/10

      • Iraglassceiling [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        Yeah there was a TV show and a movie. The movie SUCKED ASS (fuck you Nichole Kidman) but the TV show is good IMO, it makes a lot more sense if you've read the books though.

        Phillip Pullman pissed of theists so much they published a whole book about how he's the "Pied piper of Atheism" lmao