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Fantasy and Science Fiction June 2019
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| Middlegame by Seanan McGuireWhat it's about: Created by alchemists, twins Roger (linguistically talented) and Dodger (mathematically gifted) can communicate via quantum entanglement yet can't escape their fate.
Is it for you? This dark and stylistically complex novel by the author of the Wayward Children series opens with the line, "There is so much blood," giving readers some idea of how much violence to expect.
For fans of: the complex characters and exploration of moral gray areas in V.E. Schwab's Villains series. |
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An illusion of thieves
by Cate Glass
Banished from the court of the Shadow Lord in order to save her brother from certain death, courtesan Romy must now rely on her wits and her own long-hidden sorcery to survive as she gathers together a ragtag crew to stop a plot to overthrow the Shadow Lord.
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Machines like me : and people like you
by Ian McEwan
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Atonement presents the story of two lovers in an alternative 1980s London who construct a perfect synthetic human before finding themselves in a morally complex love triangle
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Polaris rising : a novel
by Jessie Mihalik
Seizing control of her own destiny, princess Ada von Hasenburg, the fifth of six children, escapes from her betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars where she, for two long years, eludes capture until her luck runs out.
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| Rosewater by Tade ThompsonWelcome to: Rosewater, a doughnut-shaped Nigerian city that rings the mysterious alien biodome that has become an object of veneration since it first appeared back in 2055.
Meet: government agent Kaaro, who owes his psychic abilities to the biodome. When his fellow "sensitives" start dying, Kaaro investigates and makes some unsettling discoveries about his past -- and his future.
Book buzz: Rosewater, the 1st installment of the Wormwood trilogy, made the 2019 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist. |
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