You gave me a horrible mental image of Trump stripped to the waist in leather trousers :->
If you like Minette Walters, have you tried Ruth Rendell? Her series novels featuring Inspector Wexford would be too conventional for you, but her non-series novels are very like Walters (and probably influenced her).
The Martian isn't so much "outside the box" as reviving a type of very-old-school ultra-hard SF about humanity-versus-uncaring-nature that had been thought to have died out. It's why people find it so annoying/ironic that the Puppies prevented Weir from being nominated for the John W Campbell Award, when The Martian was exactly the kind of book they claimed they wanted to support.
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Date: 2016-03-03 12:22 pm (UTC)If you like Minette Walters, have you tried Ruth Rendell? Her series novels featuring Inspector Wexford would be too conventional for you, but her non-series novels are very like Walters (and probably influenced her).
The Martian isn't so much "outside the box" as reviving a type of very-old-school ultra-hard SF about humanity-versus-uncaring-nature that had been thought to have died out. It's why people find it so annoying/ironic that the Puppies prevented Weir from being nominated for the John W Campbell Award, when The Martian was exactly the kind of book they claimed they wanted to support.