had recommendations for sci fi series that would be along the same vein
I highly recommend the Chanur series by CJ Cherryh. They're a bit old, but they're fun: a multi-species interstellar economic compact is thrown into political chaos when a single human shows up from outside their territory. The main character is a female feline ship captain, who finds humans entirely unattractive, and thinks males are inherently unstable and violent. She's a total badass.
Four novels, so much shorter than Cherryh's recent stuff, told entirely from non-human POV. Lots of chases through space, battles in space and on planets and space stations, strategy and politics, alien psychology, and so forth. Great stuff. Look for The Pride of Chanur, which is the first in the sequence.
I'm currently half way through Harrow's
The Once and Future Witches.
It is engaging and I am enjoying it, but I don't love it to the level I loved
The Ten Thousand Doors of January,
but really that is a very high bar.
I'm putting the
Chanur
series next on my list as that sounds like my jam. And I do prefer a series. Looks like 5 in the series.
Seconding the Chanur books, and pretty much anything by Cherryh.
Cherryh is really good with aliens, making them actually alien and not just humans in costume. Chanur and Foreigner are my favorites of hers.
I saw that the author of "The Phantom Tollbooth" has died. I think it came along when I was too old to be part of the target audience, but I saw that he'd died.
No one is too old for The Phantom Tollbooth!
I wasn't too old - I think I actually read it at one point - but I was a good deal older than its target audience when it came out. I missed a fair number of iconic pop culture things.
So, I decided to expand my Golden Age of Detective Fiction education and read some Margery Allingham. Started with the first Campion book, The Crime at Black Dudley, and I don't think it's for me, although I can well imagine Marsh reading it and deciding to write A Man Lay Dead. Is anyone here a fan, are later books maybe different?
The last Chanur novel is more of a TNG-type spinoff than a direct sequel, although it deals with a lot of the same issues. It's just that the Chanur of the title is Hilfy, rather than her aunt Pyanfar. And I like Hilfy, but Pyanfar is totally badass.
