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Science Fiction/Fantasy April 2019
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Ancestral Night
by Elizabeth Bear
Two salvage operators searching through lost human and alien spaceships make a shocking discovery about a species long believed to be dead.
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At the Table of Wolves
by Kay Kenyon
A woman with a talent for drawing out truths that people most wish to hide, Kim Tavistock, a test subject at an ultra-secret site called Monkton Hall, is recruited for a mission to expose the head of the facility, who is believed to be a German spy, and she must infiltrate the upper-crust circles of some of England’s worst fascist sympathizers to expose a traitor.
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The Bird King
by G. Willow Wilson
A concubine in the royal court of Granada at the height of the Spanish Inquisition and her mapmaker friend risk their lives to escape when the latter is accused of sorcery.
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The Case of the Hidden Daemon
by Lucy Ann Banks
When a reckless cult conspires with an ancient and powerful Daemon, Dr. Ribero's agency must expand its own line-up, in order to combat the spirits.
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Empire of Silence
by Christopher Ruocchio
It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky.
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The Light Brigade
by Kameron Hurley
To fight a war on Mars, soldiers are broken down into particles of light, but those who survive are experiencing an alarming type of combat madness in the new novel from the author of The Stars Are Legion.
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The Priory of the Orange Tree
by Samantha Shannon
A queen who would survive assassination attempts to continue her ruling line is protected with forbidden magic by a court outsider, while a secret society works to prevent a dragon war.
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The Raven Tower
by Ann Leckie
The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ancillary series presents a debut work of fantasy involving gods that speak to mortals, usurped thrones and world-changing stakes.
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Rewrite
by Gregory Benford
A thematic sequel to the award-winning Timescape finds a history professor transporting back to 1968, the year he was 16, and encountering mentors who share his time-travel abilities, including Robert Heinlein, Albert Einstein and Philip K. Dick.
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Smoke & Summons
by Charlie N. Holmberg
A human vessel for an ancient spirit who commands her at will, Sandis, to stay alive, must go on the run and finds an unexpected ally in a cunning thief for hire who has a unique ability that could free her from her master — forever.
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Wild Country
by Anne Bishop
A follow-up to Lake Silence finds the human and shape-shifting citizens of Bennett struggling to coexist peacefully before profit-seeking humans and the power-hungry Blackstone Clan force neighbors to choose between uniting or turning on each other.
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The Women's War
by Jenna Glass
When a world-altering spell gives women the ability to control their own fertility, a disinherited princess and a powerless queen trigger changes in their patriarchal kingdoms before a caravan of exiles stumbles on a new source of women's magic.
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