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Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2020
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The City in the Middle of the Night
by Charlie Jane Anders
What it's about: The planet January boasts two politically opposed cities capable of sustaining human life -- and disgraced student Sophie is in neither of them, instead exiled in the wilderness among January's original inhabitants.
About the author: i09 cofounder Charlie Jane Anders made a splash with her debut, All the Birds in the Sky.
For fans of: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness.
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Here and now and then by Mike ChenKin Stewart works in IT, tries to keep the spark in his marriage, struggles to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. Memory loss is wiping his memory as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142. Stranded in San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin's rescue team arrives eighteen years too late. Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he's been gone weeks... and where another family is waiting for him. Desperate to connect to both families, his efforts threaten to destroy the agency, history itself-- and wipe out Miranda's existence
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Tiamat's wrath
by James S. A Corey
While Elvi Okoye weighs the consequences of uncovering the truth about weapons tied to an ancient genocide, Teresa Duarte navigates secrets and dangerous intrigues to fulfill her father's godlike ambition
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Iron Gold: A Red Rising Novel
by Pierce Brown
Starring: slave-turned-statesman Darrow, a lowly Red whose uprising against Mars' Gold elite led to the establishment of the Solar Republic -- and an endless war.
Series alert: This spinoff of the Red Rising trilogy takes place ten years after the events of Morning Star. However, newcomers should start at the beginning with Red Rising.
Read it for: a dystopian outer space setting, a unique color-coded caste system, and an action-packed plot rife with warfare and political intrigue.
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Dark state
by Charles Stross
As two nuclear superpowers clash across timelines, Rita, a new spy and the estranged daughter of Commissioner Burgeson, must deal with an activated sleeper cell in the second novel of the series following Empire Games.
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| A Little Hatred by Joe AbercrombieWhat it is: the opening installment of the Age of Madness trilogy, set in the world of the author's First Law series.
Why you might like it: This intricately plotted epic fantasy boasts a large cast of morally ambiguous characters, an unsentimental look at revolutionary politics, and a rapidly industrializing world where magic is (grudgingly) giving way to technology.
Reviewers say: a "brutal fantasy that cuts keen and refuses to soothe the sting" (Booklist). |
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River's child
by Mark Daniel Seiler
Waking from a cryogenic sleep nearly a thousand years after the apocalypse hits, biologist Mavin Cedarstrom discovers the world has changed dramatically
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Only Human
by Sylvain Neuvel
What it’s about: Ten years after alien robot invaders kidnapped scientist Rose Franklin, she has returned to Earth to find a startlingly different landscape than the one she left behind. Now, Rose must uncover a way to hold the planet together before it's too late.
Series alert: Only Human is the 3rd entry in the Themis Files science fiction trilogy after Sleeping Giants and Waking Gods.
Reviewers say: “an addictive blend of science fiction, apocalyptic thriller, and chillingly timely cautionary tale” (Kirkus Reviews).
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Before Mars
by Emma Newman
Arriving on Mars for her new job as a geologist and de facto artist in residence, Anna Kubrin, after receiving a strange note in her own hand, begins to suspect that she is caught up in an elaborate corporate conspiracy that could cause her to lose her grip on reality and to face unimaginable horrors. By the author of After Atlas. Original.
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Gunpowder Moon
by David Pedreira
What it's about: By 2072, lunar mining of helium-3 has become a lucrative industry. With so much money (and power) at stake, it's only a matter of time before corruption sets in.
Is it for you? If murder on the moon is your cup of tea, settle in for a suspenseful, deftly plotted SF mystery.
For fans of: the political machinations and financial skullduggery of Ian McDonald's Luna novels.
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