I Read Books: White Queen
This won some awards back in the day and I didn’t get on with it, which may be why I only just discovered there were two sequels. Perhaps they tie up some of the dangling threads, though on balance perhaps not, and perhaps better not?
Anyway some aliens arrive on earth. They don’t look quite like humans. They reincarnate (their genome contains several million individuals coded there). They may or may not be telepathic, but they certainly understand things without words. They have a different understanding of gender and seek to fix humanity’s.
This may be needed as thanks to the ’04 when the Japanese Islands sank in a earthquake the climate and economic shocks have led a generation of women to be locked in factories doing indoor work, and now they are trying to better their lot in the Eve riots. There’s also a revolution going on in America and various viruses doing things, and there may be AIs running on a clay substrate (the big machines) trying to keep things running.
Anyway there’s a former reporter who can’t use modern tech any more (caught a virus on the International Space Station – maybe) and a current reporter who will use any and every means at her disposal for her ends, and a weird scientist who has invented faster than light travel, which the aliens almost certainly don’t have and may reveal the truth about them.
And it may not matter.
Read This: For a distinctly strange novel in which the aliens’ misunderstanding of humanity is equally matched by humanity’s misunderstanding of the aliens
Don’t Read This: If you want answers and things to hang together
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