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Fantasy and Science Fiction February 2020
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| Highfire by Eoin ColferBurned out by the days of yore and passing his time in the Louisiana bayou watching Flashdance, a vodka-drinking dragon endures unexpected misadventures when he crosses paths with a 15-year-old troublemaker on the run. |
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A Longer Fall
by Charlaine Harris
A sequel to An Easy Death finds Lizbeth Rose going undercover with an old friend when a transport job involving a stolen crate threatens an alternate-world Dixie with a violent rebellion.
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A Queen in Hiding
by Sarah Kozloff
Exiled and hunted, Cerulia, Princess of Weirandale, knows she has one destiny. Her enemies failed to kill her, and no one harboring her is safe. Raised in obscurity, she has no resources, no army, nothing that can help her against her enemies. Except their gods.
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The Resisters
by Gish Jen
Enduring life on the margins in a near-future world ruthlessly divided between the employed and unemployed, a once-professional couple give birth to an athletically gifted child, whose attention by the government compels her mother to challenge society’s foundations.
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Riot Baby
by Tochi Onyebuchi
The author of the award-winning young-adult novel Beasts Made of Night tackles youth, race and the carceral state with magical flair, in his adult-science-fiction debut.
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Agency
by William Gibson
A sequel to the best-selling The Peripheral finds app-whisperer Verity Jane beta-testing a disturbing AI technology, while a century into the future, an apocalypse survivor discovers his employer meddling in Verity’s influential timeline.
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A Beginning at the End
by Mike Chen
Four survivors try to rebuild their personal lives six years after a global pandemic brings about a literal apocalypse.
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Followers
by Megan Angelo
Decades after an ambitious writer and her A-list wannabe roommate abandon their ethics for social-media stardom, a government-appointed celebrity discovers a shattering secret from her past that her corporate sponsors would gladly exploit.
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Mazes of Power
by Juliette Wade
The cavern city of Pelismara has stood for a thousand years. The Great Families of the nobility cling to the myths of their golden age while the city's technology wanes.When a fever strikes, and the Eminence dies, seventeen-year-old Tagaret is pushed to represent his family in the competition for Heir to the Throne. To win would give him the power to rescue his mother from his abusive father, and marry the girl he lov
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Zed
by Joanna Kavenna
In an identity-challenged world dominated by a global media and tech corporation that anticipates every human need, a murder-by-robot case reveals either a deadly human error or the work of a paradigm-changing hacker.
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The Vanished Birds
by Simon Jimenez
An out-of-time space traveler who only aged months while decades passed back home navigates the loss of everyone she knew before finding new purpose caring for a mysterious broken child who communicates through a wooden flute.
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