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Science Fiction & Fantasy: June 2024
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Black Shield Maiden
by Willow Smith
Yafeu, an African warrior stolen from her home in the Ghanaian Empire, ignites a revolution in the frozen north of the Vikings and forges an unlikely friendship with a timid princess as the pair fight to control their destinies.
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Blue Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers". The ultimate fate of Earth, as well as the possibility of new explorations into the solar system, stand in the balance.
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Evocation
by S. T. Gibson
After the death of his oppressive occultist father, a psychic prodigy working as a high-powered Boston attorney turns to his ex-boyfriend, now married and in a secret society, when the Devil shows up to collect on an ancestral deal.
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I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
by Peter S. Beagle
Unhappily inheriting his late father's job as a dragon catcher/exterminator, Robert dreams of quitting and becoming a princess valet because he just really likes dragons, in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Last Unicorn.
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Mirrored Heavens
by Rebecca Roanhorse
The intertwined destinies of the people of Meridian are revealed as Serpio, the newly crowned Carrion King fights to keep his throne while Xiala must unleash her powers to become queen to her people and Naranpa seeks a way to save Tova from the visions of fire that engulf her dreams.
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The Silverblood Promise
by James Logan
A disgraced heir to an ancient noble house, Lukan Gardova, when his estranged father is murdered, vows to solve this mystery as a chance to make amends for his mistakes, which leads him to a fabled city where everything has a price—and the price of truth is the deadliest of all.
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When Among Crows
by Veronica Roth
A hunter who sacrifices his soul to slay monsters, Dymitr, tasked with finding legendary witch Baba Jaga, offers Ala, a fear-eating zmora, a cure for her curse in exchange for her help. Together they fight against time and the wrath of the Chicago underworld where his secrets could destroy them both.
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