Can y'all help me with comp titles for my novel?

[labingi]

Because I've been trying to figure out how comp titles work for fifteen years, and it ain't happening.

Can anybody name me fairly recent science fiction novels (ideally decent sellers but not top award winners) that have any of the following characteristics or something along similar lines:

* A colonized protagonist who's been indoctrinated to identify with the colonizers and has to rediscover their identity.

* An adolescent or child protagonist in a fairly grim adult novel.

* An adolescent protagonist suffering from war/colonial/childhood trauma in an adult novel, especially if "teen" is not really a cultural category the way it is for us.

* Low-tech sci fi geared toward exploration of intercultural conflict, especially with a serious tone.

For the Blake's 7 fans out there, the story I know that is most like this book is the B7 episode "Horizon," if you imagine Blake's crew as much more secondary and the story being primarily about Ro as a teen.

Any reading suggestions appreciated.

Comments

[astrogirl]

The only thing that pops into my mind is The Traitor Baru Cormorant, but that's probably not quite comparable, as it's fantasy rather than science fiction, and the protagonist doesn't stay that young through the whole thing.

[labingi]

Thanks! The preferred formula seems to be "My story is like X meets Y," so maybe TTBC could be an "X" or a "Y." At any rate, I look forward to reading it. My book does have a kind of fantasy feel; it's tonally a lot like fantasy but without magic.

[astrogirl]

Baru Cormorant doesn't have the usual kind of magic in it, either, although there's definitely some weird dark fantasy elements that come in eventually. It's also a big, fat trilogy that I think starts better than it ends, IMO.

[labingi]

Sounds intriguing, even if I don't get through the full, fat trilogy. Thanks.