berryjam@lemmy.world to suggestmeabook@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoA book where the protagonist is a diplomatmessage-squaremessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up13arrow-down1message-squareA book where the protagonist is a diplomatberryjam@lemmy.world to suggestmeabook@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-text
Preferably set in the real world, though it’s not a hard requirement. Fiction or biography are both fine :)
minus-squareChef_Boyargee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoWell shoot. I was going to suggest a sci fi book. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks Not a traditional diplomat, but functions as one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
minus-squareberryjam@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThank you! I got a few sci-fi recs already (CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner, Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire), but I would be happy to hear yours.
Well shoot. I was going to suggest a sci fi book. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
Not a traditional diplomat, but functions as one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
Thank you!
I got a few sci-fi recs already (CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner, Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire), but I would be happy to hear yours.