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I'm looking for some cool non-anime sci-fi that's relatively recent; books and comics have precedence but shows and movies are cool, too.

You've probably already gotten this rec, but I'd just like to put in another good word for Ann Leckie. Her first two books, Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword, are great, solid military SF with some deep thinking about both culture and the psychological/human sequellae of technology.

Claire North also does some great literary SF in a modern setting; Touch tells the story of a ghost who can switch between bodies and suppress the native personality, and The First 15 Lives of Harry August is about a man in a world where some people are born with the ability to, when they die, be reborn in the same place and time as before with the memories of their life... which is now in the future. Some great parallel universe stuff in Harry August, and Touch is a fun spy thriller with a really unusual twist.

Hah, Touch sounds amazing. I'll look into the rest. Thank you!

Hope you enjoy them! (If you like Claire North's writing, she publishes under two other names as well -- Kate Griffin, which is her urban fantasy pen name, and Catherine Webb, which is her real name and under which she's published quirky steampunk mysteries.)

is this the same catherine webb who wrote mirror dreams and mirror wakes as a teenager? i loved those books in high school.

holy shit, google says it is! i haven't read those, but i think i'll have to take a look

orphan black! sorry, i don't read much sci-fi

seconding orphan black. maybe try defiance as well.

I hate recommending this because I always feel the need to add 'no, seriously, trust me,' which is awkward enough. But then when they don't trust me, I can't even blame them.

But.

Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye comic from IDW Publishing is some of the best sci-fi I've read in years, and I say this as someone who could only name about three giant car robots before reading it. The premise is that there's been a civil war going for millions of years between factions of this pretty nearly immortal race, and suddenly it ended. Now everyone has to deal with the fallout. Our hero, Rodimus, rather than try to help rebuild, fucks off with a cast of lovable and variously dysfunctional D-list characters on a quest to find an ancient pseudo-mythological group who hopefully know how to fix everything. They get sidetracked constantly.

Genre is something like sci-fi adventure-comedy-drama, changing from story to story. It's thankfully mostly self-contained, crossing over one time a few volumes in with its sister story, which is about the people who stuck around and tried to help rebuild in the aftermath of the war. That one's okay, worth reading up until the crossover, at least.

As someone whose got a third of a timeline going on about this I think I may finally have to look into it. Thanks for the nudge, anon!

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