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Date: 2019-01-27 04:18 am (UTC)(I've been nattering so much about BE on Tumblr, I forgot I said Jack Schitt about it here lmao)
I'll have to make a separate post about it later but Broken Earth is a trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. It is the first trilogy in history to win three Hugo Awards for Best Novel, one for every book. The books take place on a continent plagued by earthquakes, ironically called The Stillness, and starts with the triggering of a Fifth Season which is their term for volcanic winters. (Which, you know, makes a fuckton more sense than A Song of Ice and Fire as a setup for potentially civilization-ending irregular winters. Just saying.) Essun, the heroine of the series, is an orogene--think an Earthbender on steroids, a group heavily persecuted and enslaved in this world. The series' treatment of imperialism and oppression is absolutely fascinating. The vast majority of main characters are nonwhite (race is another subject handled with nuance and novelty in the worldbuilding), many of them queer--a trans lesbian and her girlfriend, a bisexual woman, a gay man, and a bisexual man just off the top of my head. PLEASE READ THE BOOKS THEY ARE SO GOOD
Also saaaame on your PacRim fandom feels. The Wei brothers looked so interesting and unique, but received disappointingly little attention in the canon and fandom. I would have had a heart attack right there in the theater if we got to see Jake and Mako pilot a Jaeger together. PRU was such a wasted opportunity just what the fuck.