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Fantasy and Science Fiction March 2020
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| Upright Women Wanted by Sarah GaileyWhat it is: a pulp SF Western set in alternate-timeline dystopian American Southwest and featuring an LGBTQIA cast.
What happens: After her best friend (and secret lover) Beatriz is executed for possession of Unapproved Materials, Esther Augustus seeks to hide in plain sight by joining the Librarians, who pose as "Morally Upright Women" while distributing seditious literature.
Reviewers say: "a feat of writerly sorcery that packs a sweeping political epic into fewer than 200 pages" (Booklist). |
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The Future of Another Timeline
by Annalee Newitz
What it's about: The Daughters of Harriet, a coalition of feminist activists, and the Comstockers, a men's rights group, travel through time, editing history like a Wikipedia page.
Reviewers say: "a matryoshka doll meditation on the pointlessness and necessity of violence...bathed in pop culture references (real and imagined)" (NPR).
For fans of: the LGBTQIA-friendly change wars of Amal El-Mohtar's and Max Gladstone's This is How You Lose the Time War;
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Binary storm
by Christopher Hinz
With Earth in chaos from environmental devastation and a vicious undeclared war against binaries, genetically engineered assassins, computer programmer Nick Smith and his lover, Annabel Bakana, secretly assemble a small combat team to hunt and kill binaries and save the world from the approaching Armageddon. Original.
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Salvation lost
by Peter F Hamilton
Humans on earth in the 23rd century are threatened by the Olyix, an alien race determined to make everyone believe in, and bow to, their version of god, in the second novel of the series following Salvation.
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The fated sky
by Mary Robinette Kowal
"The Fated Sky looks forward to 1961, when mankind is well-established on the moon and looking forward to its next step: journeying to, and eventually colonizing, Mars. Of course the noted Lady Astronaut Elma York would like to go, but there's a lot riding on whoever the International Aerospace Coalition decides to send on this historic--but potentially very dangerous--mission? Could Elma really leave behind her husband and the chance to start a family to spend several years traveling to Mars? And with the Civil Rights movement taking hold all over Earth, will the astronaut pool ever be allowed to catch up, and will these brave men and women of all races be treated equitably when they get there?"--Amazon
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There before the chaos
by K. B. Wagers
Retiring her gun to rebuild her Empire, former runaway princess and infamous galactic gunrunner Hail Bristol finds her hard-won peace short-lived when she is asked to intervene in an interstellar military crisis between two alien civilizations. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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Uncompromising honor
by David Weber
After the League, committing atrocities such as the galaxy has not known in 1,000 years, kills many of the people she loves, Honor Harrington, a.k.a. the Salamander, is about to show them something they could have never imagined.
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Ball Lightning
by Cixin Liu; translated by Joel Martinsen
Introducing: scientist Chen, whose parents' incineration by ball lightning sparks an obsessive quest to understand the phenomenon; army major Lin Yun, who's also interested in ball lightning -- as a weapon.
Author alert: Multi-award-winning Chinese SF novelist Cixin Liu is the author of the epic trilogy that begins with The Three-Body Problem.
Read this next: If you're interested in the growing body of Chinese speculative fiction, check out the anthology Invisible Planets: Contemporary Science Fiction in Translation, edited by Ken Liu.
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Vanguard
by Jack Campbell
In a world...where Earth can no longer protect its far-flung colonies, veterans Robert Geary and Mele Darcy lend their military expertise to the inhabitants of fledgling settlement Glenlyon as they fend off an invasion.
Why you might like it: Author Jack Campbell draws on his former career in the U.S. Navy to write authentic-feeling military SF.
Series alert: Vanguard kicks off the Genesis Fleet series, which serves as a prequel to the author's popular Lost Fleet trilogy and explores the creation of the Alliance.
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The light brigade
by Kameron Hurley
"'The war has turned us into light. Transforming us into light is the fastest way to travel from one front to another, and there are many fronts, now. I always wanted to be a hero. I always wanted to be on the side of light. It's funny how things work out.' Soldiers in the war against Mars, The Light Brigade, live brief lives, but the veterans are starting to be affected by changes in their bodies and minds, slipping in and out of time, or are they simply going mad? From Hugo award-winning author of The Stars Are Legion is a novel about interplanetary warriors who are losing their humanity."
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