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Fantasy and Science Fiction June 2020 Special eBook edition! You must have a current Wilton Library card to use these services. If you are a non-Wilton resident, please check with your hometown library for these services.
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The End of October
by Lawrence Wright
The premise: Investigating dozens of mysterious deaths in an Indonesian internment camp, a World Health Organization doctor finds himself on a race to uncover the origins of a mysterious killer virus and find a cure before it decimates world populations.
Also by the Pulitzer Prize winning author: The Looming Tower, which was made into a Hulu miniseries starring Jeff Daniels.
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Exhalation: Stories
by Ted Chiang
What it is: the long-awaited 2nd short story collection by the author of Stories of Your Life and Others.
Don't miss: "The Life Cycle of Software Objects," in which humans and machines form parent-child bonds; "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a time travel tale in the style of One Thousand and One Nights.
Reviewers say: "likely to linger in the memory the way riddles may linger -- teasing, tormenting, illuminating, thrilling" (The New Yorker).
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Tell the Machine Goodnight
by Katie Williams
What happens? A personalized recommendation consultant observes how her work and the experiences of those around her, including her perpetually malcontented teenage son, reflect respective beliefs about happiness.
By the author of: The Space Between Trees (2010) and Absent (2013).
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American War
by Omar El Akkad
What it's about: A second American Civil War and devastating plague in the late 21st century forces a family into a camp for displaced people, where a young woman is befriended by a mysterious functionary who would transform her into a living weapon.
Kirkus Reviews calls it: "A well-imagined if somber window into social collapse."
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The Black God's Drums
by P. Djèlí Clark
Introducing: Jacqueline (a.k.a. Creeper), a teenager who lives on the streets of 1884 New Orleans and longs to see the world; and Oya, the orisha (Yoruba storm deity) who lives inside her.
What happens: After learning of a Confederate plot to win the ongoing Civil War with a weapon of mass destruction, Creeper seeks out Ann-Marie St. Augustine, captain of the smuggler airship Midnight Robber.
Why you might like it: With its majority black female cast and numerous LGBTQIA characters, The Black God's Drums is a rarity in Steampunk.
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The Library of the Unwritten
by A. J. Hackwith
The premise: Assigned to watch the restless characters of books left unfinished by their authors, a head librarian of Hell’s neutral Unwritten Wing tracks an escaped Hero before an angel attack reveals the existence of a powerful literary weapon.
Series alert: first title in the new fantasy series, Hell's Library.
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Natalie Tan's Book of Luck & Fortune
by Roselle Lim
What it's about: Inheriting her grandmother's restaurant in a crumbling San Francisco Chinatown neighborhood, Natalie receives some advice from the local seer that will help her struggling community, but she isn't sure she wants to help them try to turn things around.
Publisher's Weekly says: "Lim serves up love, loss, heritage, and hints of the supernatural on a silver platter in this magical and mouthwatering debut."
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Lies Sleeping
by Ben Aaronovitch
What it's about: Detective and apprentice wizard Peter Grant teams up with an adversarial Lesley May to track down and capture the murdering Faceless Man, who would execute the final stages of a brutal long-term plot.
Series alert: number 7 in the popular London Rivers series.
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