/lit/ - Literature

>>18675262

Eyyy I remember posting about this book last thread. The book is great, I especially enjoyed the final confrontation on the tallest cylinder in Ar, very powerful imagery, short and concise descriptions leaving what is right to imagination, it's an easy read. Still the book is too similar to an isekai light-novel, protagonist is isekaid to another world, spends a few week learning the customs and how to be a warrior (excels at it of courset ) and then gets sent on what would be a suicide mission if he were a lesser man aka not the protagonist. I've started on the sequel (Outlaw of Gor) and that's where the anti-feminist message kicks into a higher gear; "city ruled by women? its a grey, joyless shithole, and also love is banned because .......... because women shouldn't be in positions of power".
I'm really curios to see what the Priest-kings narrative will evolve into, why would they settle on space Australia and populate it people.

Repeating my question if anyone could help me identify either of these books:

1. A group of a couple dozen children are on a ship with a robotic nursemaid. It is revealed that humanity was wiped out by unknown enemies but a small part was saved by an advanced alien race. The aliens have put these children on the ship and sent them off to exact revenge for the murder of humankind. It features technology such as a boobytrap that turns their scouts into antimatter versions of themselves and manipulating matter by "hacking" the rules underlying subatomic force carrier particles.

2. Five or so people are chosen to be copied into hundreds of clone bodies and placed upon dozens of ships, each going to a different star. All of the clones based on one man go insane except the protagonist. On their destination planet the protagonist finds several golden towers with technological gifts from unknown aliens, including a transparent spacesuit and a small golden faster than light ship. It turns out that different aliens in starfish-shaped ships are following the first set and destroying any civilization which receives the gifts. The protagonist unwittingly uses the gift ship to return to earth which results in the starfish aliens following and destroying the solar system. He escapes with the original of one of his former crewmates and they embark on a journey to figure out why all this is happening and how it can be stopped.