Best canadian literature books according to redditors

In Conquest Born by C. S. Friedman. Epic Space Opera with telepathy thrown in. But done well and there are all the other elements along with it.

I am not much of a Space Opera fan, I have read some of the classics (Larry Niven's Mote In God's Eye) but I guess Tanya Huff's Confederation Series was another one. And I read and enjoyed every single one of those.

Canada...

"A daring and compelling novel, Marian Engel’s Bear won the Governor General’s Award for 1976."

~$13 is expensive? http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Elminster-Collectors-Edition-Series/dp/0786947993

If you are looking for a brand new copy, its expensive because its a 7-year old book that probably didn't see many print runs and is therefore fairly rare. That's what happens to collector's items.

I think I'd better apologize to the moderator for the tone of my post - as a lifelong Albertan transplanted here, I'ver found people here to be good-hearted and resilient, and genuine as friends. Of which I've been happy to make many; I can respect now what they have to deal with living here every day, and that's essentially the opposite of every stereotype you hear back home.

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My venom is directed mainly at government here - if you can call it that, even on a good day - and the very few big corporate employers, particularly here where I live in Saint John.

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They're backwards, stupid AND corrupt. The government is on par with some creepy central Asian Islamic republic for honesty. I just got turned down for a job as a supply teacher by ASD-S (Anglophone School Distrct - South) because they said they 'were worried I couldn't handle rowdy students'. Nevermind that I'm better educated than 90% of the people they have, and the fact they're crying for ppl with math and sciences training (I have a STEM degree, from an actual top-tier university).

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Oh, and there's the small matter of an ASD-S Transport Manager having used government expense money to bring along someone I know here in town to Kitchener-Waterloo for a week long sex holiday. Then promptly returning and securing that persona job and immediate promotion with ASD-S, no open competition. The HR person okayed it, and her boss signed off on it. The girl in question came to me in tears after Mr T strung her along and (surprise) didn't leave his wife for her, that's how I found out. He and Ms Ryan know I know all about their crime - Likely what lost me the teaching job.

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How's THAT for 'backwards'..?

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After being laid off from my last career-level job - as an oil company Exploration Manager in Calgary -my wife, who's from here, convinced me that we should move here so she could be closer to her aging mother. The only work I could get was at a series of call centres (the growth field in this sh!thole Saint John). I NEVER thought things I've seen here would exist in Canada.

So, I wrote a book and put it on Kobo. The CRTC asked me to give testimony at their recent inquiry into the crooked practices of call centres like Nordia. Not sure if any of it'll help....

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Anyhow, here's the link to the ebook - Call Centre: Life on the Line, if anyone wants to give it a look. I'm thinking that maybe someday when they're in college far from here, they'll read it and have a window into that part of their dad's life, and the part of life here we worked hard to ensure they never saw. There's a lot more than just 'Sex scandal at public school board' that I have to tell, anyone who wants to hear it can feel free to pvt message me.

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https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/call-centre-2

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https://www.amazon.com/Call-Centre-Life-J-R-Wellman-ebook/dp/B07FSQLNRD/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1542808271&sr=8-2&keywords=call+centre+life

http://www.amazon.ca/Bear-Marian-Engel/dp/0771093799

got you covered:
https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Encyclopedia-Science-Fiction/dp/0771573170

The Confederation of Valor series by Tanya Huff is extremely fun and action-packed military SF, and definitely focuses more on combat than politics.

Not too hard to find hard copies of the books on Amazon. I grabbed a used 2nd ed core a little while back. I really wanted to play this game when I was a kid in the 90's. I still want to try it, but none of my players are very interested. Mostly I just skim through and look at the rad 80's anime mechs like I did when I was a wee child.

I personally enjoyed Chretien's My Years As Prime Minister and Diefenbaker's One Canada. I also liked Great Canadian Speeches, which was a cheap little pick up from Chapters that's also apparently cheap on amazon so I linked it.

Sounds like they should just send people who are already insane

Tinker by Wen Spencer. Genius, runs a junkyard, races hoverbikes, works magic, Elves, Pittsburgh, etc. She's awesome.

Torin Kerr from the Valor series and Vicki Nelson from the Blood series by Tanya Huff are great female leads. Torin is a scifi series and Vicki is early urban fantasy.

Either the Kate Daniels series or Edge series by Ilona Andrews ... great female and male characters. Lots of depth and variety, very well-written.

Lily Yu and Cynna Weaver in the Lupi series by Eileen Wilks.

Any of Patricia Briggs's books - Mercy Thompson, Alpha & Omega, her fantasy novels ... all great female leads.

So many great female leads, I can give a ton more if you want them.

Glad you liked it. Echopraxia is the sequal to his book Blindsight, which is a story about aliens, vampires and post singularity humans. Because Peter Watts is a biologist and only a somewhat recent author his sci fi writings reflect that. His perspective as a biologist yields impressive insights, and surprisingly beautiful prose, often philosophical in nature yet somehow not preachy.

Starfish is also highly enjoyable if you like deep ocean stuff. Peter Watts does what great sci fi authors are capable of, they take known concepts turn them on their head and allow you to look at them from a completely new perspective.

Robert J. Sawyer's Calculating God.

I'll throw in another vote for the Hunger Games trilogy, and the Sookie Stackhouse series isn't bad. If she enjoys supernatural fluff lit, then perhaps Patricia Briggs might be another good choice.

Some of my favourites:

• The Hummingbird's Daughter
  
• The Witch of Cologne
  
• Calculating God
  
• Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Quite the opposite. An admission that you are ignorant on a subject (or ignorant of answers,) does not preclude thoughtful examination. "Agnostic" just means, "without knowledge." People often self-identify as "agnostic" rather than "atheistic" when they don't have conclusive answers. Not having firm convictions leaves a lot of room for exploration and theorizing.

The SF novel Calculating God has a slightly different take on god in SF, for instance.

Starfish by Peter Watts

Pour ceux qui aiment Hubert Aquin. Sa biographie écrite par feu Gordon Sheppard, un de ses amis.

Gail Anderson-Dargatz is a really good Canadian author. [The Cure for Death by Lightning] (http://www.amazon.ca/The-Cure-For-Death-Lightning/dp/0394281802) is my favourite book.

Oh let's definitely give him science fiction about the ocean, good idea.

Starfish trilogy by Peter Watts... love this guy, and like these novels. I like echopraxia series more, but these are solid

Little Hands Clapping was pretty good and kind of messed up. It's pretty short too.

Horns by Joe Hill was also good.

But the two I'd really recommend are The little girl who was too fond of matches

And End of Alice by A.M Homes which is one of my favourite books of all time.

Tanya Huff's Valor series is enjoyable space-opera with a tough and believable heroine.

http://www.amazon.com/Valors-Choice-Torin-Kerr-Confederation/dp/0886778964/

http://www.amazon.com/Valors-Trial-Confederation-Tanya-Huff/dp/0756405572/

http://www.amazon.com/Better-Part-Valor-Confederation-Novels/dp/1400159911/

http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Valor-Confederation-Novel/dp/0756404819/

JPod by Douglas Coupland

http://www.amazon.ca/JPod-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0679314253/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1397004999&sr=8-9&keywords=douglas+coupland


It is one of the strangest books i have ever read. Goofy, relate-able, and endlessly entertaining. It's a good book for a long flight because it is generally upbeat and intriguing, but definitely makes you think.

"Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose names start with J are bureaucratically marooned in jPod. jPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.

The six workers daily confront the forces that define our era: global piracy, boneheaded marketing staff, people smuggling, the rise of China, marijuana grow ops, Jeff Probst, and the ashes of the 1990s financial tech dream. jPod’s universe is amoral and shameless. The characters are products of their era even as they’re creating it.

Everybody in Ethan’s life inhabits a moral grey zone. Nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly straitlaced parents or Coupland himself, as readers will see."

Bloody hilarious.

> Tanya Huff's Confederation

http://www.amazon.com/Confederation-Valor-omnibus-Tanya-Huff/dp/0756403995

Is this it?

J'aime mon putain québécoise. Putain (French Edition) (Paperback)

This book is the first three in the Elminster series. Definitely a good intro to the character as you read him growing into the Wizard he's now known to be. If you don't know anything about Elminster, like myself when I read them, it's another great intro trilogy for that character.

Happy reading. =)

That's fair enough. Work with what you've got!

However, For ideas I'd also dig into games like Heavy Gear (which has some anime influences) and Mechwarrior (which is the classic mech-based RPG) if you can manage it. Heavy Gear especially has a very simple, scalable system that you might like. The 2nd Edition is the best, though some enjoy the changes in 3rd Edition (these edition changes aren't like D&D changes, but rather little revisions to the rules). You can pick up a copy of Heavy Gear on Amazon for as little as $4. (http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Gear-Rulebook-Edition-Dream/dp/1896776329)

Peter Watts Rifters Trilogy features humans who've highly adapted themselves to be able to live and work in the abyssal depths. Starfish is the first novel.

Starfish - some very interesting sci-fi. In this series, there are companies that are siphoning energy from the geothermal rifts at the bottom of the ocean. Normal humans cannot survive the pressure, so they have modified humans by replacing one of their lungs with a gill-like rebreather, so when they go into the water, they can empty their lungs of air. While down there, they discover a new form of life. The series has some very interesting allusions to internet memes and many forms of reality being replaced with information technology. It reminds me of Snow Crash.

Starfish by Peter Watts.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0765315963/ref=mw_dp_mdsc?dsc=1

" Civilization rests on the backs of its outcasts.

So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have preadapted them to dangerous environments, people so used to broken bodies and chronic stress that life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually be a step up. Nobody worries too much about job satisfaction; if you haven't spent a lifetime learning the futility of fighting back, you wouldn't be a rifter in the first place. It's a small price to keep the lights going, back on shore."

I found some strange books in my school library, including Starfish.

http://www.amazon.com/Starfish-Rifters-Trilogy-Peter-Watts/dp/0765315963

It's basically horror/sci-fi with its mix of 50,000 leagues under the sea and Resident Evil...and sex...so much sex. Strange find, but I loved it as a 13 year old. Haha.

I loved that show when I was younger.

There's a book called Starfish where they do the whole "cyberpunk" at the bottom of the ocean thing. I've always wanted to read it. And here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/Starfish-Peter-Watts/dp/0765315963/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393876210&sr=1-2&keywords=Starfish

Private Vasquez.

Edit: You might like the Torin Kerr/Confederacy novels by Tanya Huff: https://www.amazon.com/Confederation-Valor-omnibus-Tanya-Huff/dp/0756403995

I could recommend you a good 20-30 books based on your examples, but seriously, do yourself a favour and read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

It's excellent.

Read this book, then watch it three hundred thousand times more.

(NOTE: it’s a book about The Seven Samurai (among other things), not a book about that other samurai movie. It predates that other movie.)

Will you be the person I finally convince to try A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright? http://www.amazon.ca/Scientific-Romance-Ronald-Wright/dp/0676971075

The Sarantium series is well worth a read as well. Ysabel is also fun, and a few of the characters from the Fionavar series are in it, which was a bonus.

Also canada has better taste in erotic fiction: http://www.amazon.ca/Bear-Marian-Engel/dp/0771093799

And canadian bacon is ofc supreme.