• Broken Earth trilogy and Great Cities duology by N. K. Jemisin
• Pretty much anything I’ve ever read by Adrian Tchaikovsky but special attention to Shattered Earth series, Children of Time series, and lately Service Model

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Crazy that we ended up at all, really

When you really get into it they’re kinda the same thing for a lot of people, though. The entanglement between those (often unspoken of) elements of emotional/physical intimacy is rampant in our media-conditioned societies (esp. in the US)