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Fantasy and Science Fiction October 2021 |
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The Last Exit
by Michael Kaufman
What it's about: In a climate-ravaged Washington, DC of the near future where longevity treatments are available only to the very wealthy, a resourceful detective and her SIM implant partner investigate a black-market drug that is causing people to age and die overnight.
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Faye, Faraway
by Helen Fisher
What it's about: A happily married mother of two daughters faces an impossible choice when she is transported back in time to 1977, the year before her own mother died. A first novel.
For fans of: Gravity is the Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty.
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Kingdom of Shadow and Light
by Karen Marie Moning
What it's about: MacKayla Lane faces the ultimate threat when war breaks out between the kingdoms of shadow and light.
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Deuces Down
by George R. R. Martin
What it's about: A revised collection of classic Wild Cards stories focuses on the minor-superpower Deuces and their underestimated impact on Martin’s alternate-history world. By the Hugo Award-winning author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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Remote Control
by Nnedi Okorafor
Meet: fourteen-year-old "Sankofa," also known as the "Adopted Daughter of Death," who has been traveling on foot across near-future Ghana ever since she acquired lethal powers from a strange artifact.
Why you might like it: Told mostly in flashbacks, this character-driven novella slowly reveals its central mystery in folkloric style.
Want a taste? "I am Sankofa, I belong wherever I want to belong, she thought to herself, walking with her chin up and back straight."
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The Forever Sea
by Joshua Phillip Johnson
What it's about: Kindred Greyreach, a hearthfire keeper, navigates ongoing conflict, unknown beasts and a mythic pirate city after her grandmother, The Marchess, disappears into the Forever Sea, a miles-high expanse of prairie grasses sailed by magical ships harvesting resources for human civilization.
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| The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. HarrowNew Salem, Massachusetts, 1893: estranged sisters Agnes Amaranth, Beatrice Belladonna, and James Juniper Eastwood reunite to reintroduce witchcraft to the world while advancing the cause of women's suffrage.
Why you might like it: This lyrical novel by the author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January evokes the language of folklore as it depicts the politics and cultural norms of its alternate 19th-century setting.
Want a taste? "There's no such thing as witches, but there used to be." |
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| The Year of the Witching by Alexis HendersonIntroducing: Immanuelle Moore, a biracial girl born out of wedlock to a woman accused of witchcraft, and considered "cursed" by the other members of the religious fundamentalist community of Bethel.
What happens: Immanuelle enters the forbidden Darkwood that surrounds Bethel and discovers her deceased mother's secrets, which threaten the patriarchal authority of her Church and its Prophet.
Series alert: This debut is the 1st book in the Bethel series. |
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