## [RT][HF][DC] Sunshine: Robin Mckinley

* Author: u/Nighzmarquls *
* URL: https://www.amazon.com/Sunshine-Robin-Mckinley/dp/0515138819
* Score: 9

* Created: 2016-07-27T22:36:05

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### Comments:

> **u/bassicallyboss** [+3]  (2 hours later)
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> Years ago, I heard about the movie *Sunshine*, where the sun goes out and a group of people take a spaceship there so they can nuke it and hopefully start it up again.  I saw something in a magazine that made me think it was based on a book, so I went to the library, found this was only book in the catalog titled *Sunshine*, and checked it out.
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> It was not exactly what I expected.
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> I finished it anyway.  I probably never would have read it if I knew what I was getting, because I was predisposed against vampire romances.  I remember liking it far more than I expected, even though I can't recall many specific details or scenes.  Still haven't seen the space movie.

>> **u/Nighzmarquls** [+1]  (2 hours later)
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>> the space movie was a bit odd and rather forgettable for me but the soundtrack is golden.

> **u/Nighzmarquls** [+2]  (2 minutes later)
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> This is a very good story that on reading it struck me as being a quite rational and intriguing set of world building. I'm almost certain it was done as a 'take that' deconstruction of either Twilight or Anne Rice novels (I suspect the later).
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> The protagonist is a baker in a mostly modern world that happens to also have magic and this is handled quite solidly.
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> The author did very effective research into what working in restaurants and kitchen professionals are like and captured "the feel" of that kind of work as a realized character.
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> It is not rationalist, but I would say the world is rational.

>> **u/Izeinwinter** [+3]  (15 hours later)
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>> It rather predates twilight. 
>> .. I don't know if take that is the right term for it. It feels rather like Mckinley read some urban fantasy and went "What a neat idea, I can execute it much better". And then went and did so. It is a very good book.

>>> **u/Nighzmarquls** [+1]  (16 hours later)
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>>> hmmm yeah sorry, twilight and anne mcaffery as a cultural phenomena sort of bleed together for me.
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>>> So I actually read it when it was new because Mckinley was a bit of a staple of my childhood (family reading/pre bed story time) and my brother recommended it to me . I guess it was midway/near the end of the pre-twilight anne-mcaffery vampire craze, and magic realism/urban fantasy was rather strong too at the time too.

>>>> **u/SpeculativeFiction** [+1]  (7 days later)
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>>>> > anne mcaffery
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>>>> You mean Anne Rice, right? McCaffery writes about dragons.

>>>>> **u/Nighzmarquls** [+1]  (8 days later)
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>>>>> oh yeah thanks

> **u/i_dont_know** [+2]  (4 days later)
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> Just finished reading based on this recommendation. Greatly enjoyed the book, just bummed that there isn't going to be a sequel. The world is intriguing, and there is quite a lot of mystery left unsolved, for example, [spoiler](what makes the head of the SOF so strange?)

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