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Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2018
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| The City of Lost Fortunes by Bryan CampIntroducing: New Orleans street magician Jude Dubuisson, whose magical talent for finding lost things was disrupted by Hurricane Katrina. Can he recover his abilities in time to solve the murder of a god?
Series alert: The City of Lost Fortunes is the 1st of the Crescent City novels.
You might also like: Suzanne Johnson's Sentinels of New Orleans, another intricately plotted urban fantasy series set in the Big Easy. |
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| Head On: A Novel of the Near Future by John ScalziIn a world... where the incurable Haden's Syndrome causes paralysis of the voluntary nervous system, so-called "locked in" patients navigate the world in sophisticated robot bodies known as "threeps."
Series alert: This sequel to Lock In reunites FBI agents Chris Shane and Leslie Vann as they investigate a seemingly impossible crime.
Read it for: an intricately plotted SF mystery involving a futuristic sports franchise that's as corrupt as it is lucrative. |
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| Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil GaimanWhat it is: A short story collection by Neil Gaiman in the vein of previous compilations Fragile Things and Smoke and Mirrors.
Contains: a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, a Doctor Who homage, and a story set in the world of the author's own American Gods.
Reviewers say: Trigger Warning is "full of small and perfect jewel-like tales," according to Publishers Weekly. |
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| Rogues by George R.R. Martin (editor) and Gardner Dozois (editor)What it's about: Rogues! Who, according to anthology editor George R.R. Martin, "go by many names, and...turn up in stories of all sorts, in every genre under the sun."
Contains: 21 original stories by a powerhouse roster of writers, including both genre stalwarts (such as Patrick Rothfuss and Connie Willis) and authors best known for their work in other areas (including Gillian Flynn and Steven Saylor). |
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