Does anyone have a source for sci-fi or fantasy recommendations they like?

I was looking at a shelf of Tanya Huff the other day and thinking that's the kind of thing you would read. Have you read all her stuff?

Naomi Novik?

I’ve been getting my new author recs mostly from the book review columns in Azimov’s and the Mag of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Which may not help, but sometimes those things are available on the website?

Oh, hey, I have new issues to read.

I did read The Adventures of Amina al-Serafi and enjoyed it very much. Thanks for mentioning it, Susan!

Scrolling through my kindle library to see if there are any exciting new to me authors I should mention and seeing all the books I have either gotten samples of or actually bought but haven’t opened yet…oops.

I get my recommendations all over the place, but a lot of them come from the tor.com website and NPR's Books We Love page. Recently I've enjoyed Nicola Griffith's Spear, Neal Shusterman's Arc of a Scythe series (at least the first two books--I've got book three on hold now) albeit with a content warning that it's about teenage Grim Reaper apprentices so there's a lot of dying going on. I also really liked Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens, which is just an adorable queer YA fantasy with strong romantic elements.

Some book recs from Harvard library staff, including a bunch of fantasy: [link] I saw at least a blurb from someone we know!

Thanks y’all! I feel like I get one off recs here and there from friends or random article but hoping to find something that’s more ongoing/dedicated. (At the moment just have a lot of trashy romances downloaded for my plane flights tomorrow along with a couple episodes of the queer Ultimatum)

David I read Tanya Huff so long ago I’ve got her stuff I n paperback rather than kindle! I still remember going out to visit you in SF and going to that scifi bookstore (no recollection of the name)

And I have read several FT Lukens but not that one.

I recently read The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, which is sort of women's lit/romance. Not my usual stomping grounds, but I liked it.

Legends and Lattes is a cozy, lesbian fantasy (fantasy with lesbians, not fantasizing about lesbians) that I liked. Divinity 36, by Gail Carriager was enjoyable. It's SF, rather than the steampunk the author's more known for.

It's low-hanging fruit, but I usually get my first line of recs from the Hugo noms, with additional ideas from Tumblr, Metafilter, and any of the lists from NPR, WaPo and the like. But I don't go through books all that fast.

My favorite thing is to come across a story I really like in a random anthology (I will buy anthologies because I like the title or theme or whatever and pick them up and put them down in between other books) and then seek out everything I can by that author. Not that that helps all that much when I am just at a loose end wanting something new to read that isn't already in my TBR

Also, I just read Divinity 36 and the two previous novels that are in the same universe but not the same characters/story. Reminded me of Space Opera except maybe American Idol instead of Eurovision? Sort of? I guess it is the start of a series and I will probably read the next one, but I don't yet love these as much as the Parasol Protectorate etc. I like the characters and the world building is interesting so I expect they will grow on me.

So, I’ve been listening to all of Radch novels, since Translation State had references to things I could not remember at all, or only vaguely remembered, and the reread is very worthwhile. I just had an aha moment that Justice of Toren being ordered to kill Lt Awn is like the mentat Duncan Idaho having to kill Paul and I had to tell someone.

If this was very obvious to everyone go ahead and tell me so, I can take it.

Also that Breq and Thing from the Addams Family could relate