The Stars Are Legion

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• sausagefeet · Oct 28, 2024 · Recommends

  The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley is a really great, and different read. Totally different world than a lot of sci-fi.

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• duped · Oct 29, 2024 · Recommends

  The Stars are Legion and Alien Clay are the two best sci-fi books I've read in the last year and I don't think they've shown up on any lists, although the latter is another first contact book by the author of Children of…

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• Eric_WVGG · Feb 27, 2026 · Recommends

  …only behind Dune. I personally think LLM "knowledge" is… kind of stupid… but I have to admit it speaks to Simmons legacy that even the word swamp recognizes Hyperion as an all-time classic. (it ranked Stars Are Legion by K. Hurley as #5, which I unconditionally agree with, but am also kind of shocked, I've never heard of this book so much as referenced in any kind of article or conversation. But yeah, read it. Star…

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• xemoka · Jan 13, 2018 · Mentions

  The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley had some crazy ideas, but lacked some depth I was hoping for. Nine Fox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee was also pretty good—had a rough start but ended well. Collapsing Empire by Scalzi was…

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