#the partials sequence

[securityunit-ese]

wish me luck lads about to listen to my first ever audibook. lets hope this goes better than my attempts to listen to podcasts

i picked partials because i love this series but its been awhile so wouldnt mind a refresher

[the-alpacapus]

Dan Wells wrote an amazing series with a diverse cast of characters and an emphasis on found family and it is so, so slept on.

[partialssequence]

Marcus: It's really muggy out today.

Kira: if I go outside and all my mugs are on the front lawn, I will kill you.

Marcus: *sips coffee from a bowl*

[iamatinyowl]

I just think that so long as there are SO MANY groups of people who can easily convince themselves that other groups of people don’t have souls no one has any business fucking around with human cloning or tryna make sentient robots

[the-alpacapus]

Marcus: How do Kira and Xochi get out of these messes?

Isolde: They don't. They just make bigger messes the cancel the first one out.

[the-alpacapus]

Haru: I'm not doing well.

Haru: I have this headache that comes and goes.

Marcus: *walks in*

Haru: Oh look, there it is again.

[the-alpacapus]

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[iamatinyowl]

Dan Wells is living evidence that cis, white, able-bodied men can write realistic characters who are dynamic, not hypersexualized, not tokenized, diverse women.

I read a trilogy by him with an Indian woman, a Mexican man, a Black woman, and an elder Indian woman as a main characters, and now I’m reading a novel by him with a Mexican woman with a prosthetic arm as a main character and I am just continuously blown away by his incredibly careful representation of women, and people of colour, old people, gay people and disabled people.

Fuck yeah Dan Wells. I’m going to read everything you have ever written, and I really respect you as an author.

I am absolutely certain there are problematic things in your novels that I haven’t seen because I’m also cis, straight and white, but this is the first time in a long time that I’ve read sci-fi novels written a man with women main characters and haven’t had to tamp down rage just to keep reading.