I really hate it when people pull this hipster move, but – I was into Martha Wells before it was cool.Not that I want anyone who climbed on board with Murderbot to feel bad! Murderbot is friggin' great! We all love the social-anxiety-ridden snark-factory of a cyborg! They're the character find of the late 2010s, and I am so, so glad that Wells got a big damn hit series a quarter century into her career.But it was a pretty great career before that. And by "pretty great," I mean "producing fantasy that was accessible to a mass readership while pushing at the boundaries of conventional worldbuilding in a way that was always ahead of her time."What did she do before Murderbot? WELL I'M GLAD YOU ASKED, STRAP IN, GUYS!We're going to focus on two series and one standalone novel today: The Ile Rien books, the Books of the Raksura, and the novel City of Bones (no, not that one).
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I really hate it when people pull this hipster move, but – I was into Martha Wells before it was cool.Not that I want anyone who climbed on board with Murderbot to feel bad! Murderbot is friggin' great! We all love the social-anxiety-ridden snark-factory of a cyborg! They're the character find of the late 2010s, and I am so, so glad that Wells got a big damn hit series a quarter century into her career.But it was a pretty great career before that. And by "pretty great," I mean "producing fantasy that was accessible to a mass readership while pushing at the boundaries of conventional worldbuilding in a way that was always ahead of her time."What did she do before Murderbot? WELL I'M GLAD YOU ASKED, STRAP IN, GUYS!We're going to focus on two series and one standalone novel today: The Ile Rien books, the Books of the Raksura, and the novel City of Bones (no, not that one).