I think the few-years-down-the-road climate change dystopia aspect also feels like sci-fi to me (fleeing billionaires! luxury bunkers!), although a. I have read other Definitely Fantasy novels set against a backdrop of climate crisis on a near-future Earth (e.g., Rachel A. Rosen's brilliant Cascade) and b. is climate fiction even technically sci-fi, at this point...?
I am fairly confident that The Surgeon's Mate was the first Patrick O'Brian I ever read, probably because it's the one that was in the basement of the Harvard Book Store at the time, and I had not been prepared for that line.
Do you mean HMS Surprise? That's the one with the debauched sloth— I think it's one of the funnier books in the series (except for whichever one has Jack disguised as a dancing circus bear in order to sneak across enemy territory??) which makes the whole Dil storyline so much more WTF.
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I am fairly confident that The Surgeon's Mate was the first Patrick O'Brian I ever read, probably because it's the one that was in the basement of the Harvard Book Store at the time, and I had not been prepared for that line.
Do you mean HMS Surprise? That's the one with the debauched sloth— I think it's one of the funnier books in the series (except for whichever one has Jack disguised as a dancing circus bear in order to sneak across enemy territory??) which makes the whole Dil storyline so much more WTF.