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Vajra Chandrasekera

Sri Lankan writer of fantasy and science fiction; the debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best First Novel; also wrote Rakesfall (2024).

5 books on the record · 23 Mar 2024 – 23 Mar 2024

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Exordia by Seth Dickinson

And the House, like mathematics in Exordia, is at a higher symbolic level.

on fivebooks.com · 23 Mar 2024 · Report

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Gnomon by Nick Harkaway

I think Gnomon is the oldest book I’m recommending today; it came out a couple of years before The Old Drift.

on fivebooks.com · 23 Mar 2024 · Report

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Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Harrow the Ninth is about the ramifications of ‘sort of’ – what does ‘sort of’ mean exactly.

on fivebooks.com · 23 Mar 2024 · Report

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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi is Susanna Clarke’s very-long-awaited second novel following, obviously, the wonderful Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.

on fivebooks.com · 23 Mar 2024 · Report

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The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

I think Gnomon is the oldest book I’m recommending today; it came out a couple of years before The Old Drift.

on fivebooks.com · 23 Mar 2024 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.