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Fantasy and Science Fiction December 2021
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| Even Greater Mistakes: Stories by Charlie Jane AndersContains: 18 short stories and one novella by acclaimed speculative fiction author Charlie Jane Anders.
Don't Miss: The Hugo award-winning "Six Months, Three Days," and short stories set in the worlds of her novels All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night. |
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| A Marvellous Light by Freya MarskeIntroducing: Robin Blyth, the new and non-magical assistant in the Office of Special Domestic Affairs and Complaints; and special liaison Edwin Courcey, who's less than thrilled to be working with him.
What happens: Opposites attract as the duo investigates the mysterious disappearance of Robin's predecessor, a task that may prove deadly.
Also available in eAudiobook on Libby |
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| Noor by Nnedi OkoraforWhat it's about: After defending herself from a mob, cybernetically enhanced mechanic AO (née "Anwuli Okwudili", now "Artificial Organism") flees into the desert, where she meets a fellow outcast, Fulani herdsman DNA.
Read it for: A fast-paced survival story set in a vividly rendered near-future Nigeria and narrated by a memorable heroine.
Also available in eAudiobook on Libby |
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| Lady Hotspur by Tessa GrattonWhat it is: An inventive, gender-bending take on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, featuring an LGBTQIA cast and set in the world of the author's novel The Queens of Innis Lear.
Starring: "Lion Prince" Hal Bolinbroke, sudden heir to the throne of Aremoria following her mother's successful coup; Isarna Perseria, Lady Hotspur, Hal's fellow knight and lover; and the desposed Banna Mora, Hal's former best friend who plots from exile to take back her throne. |
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| Circe by Madeline MillerWhat it's about: Circe, the much-misunderstood enchantress of the Odyssey recounts her life, from her childhood among the gods to her exile on the island of Aiaia.
About the author: Madeline Miller made her debut with The Song of Achilles, another lyrical and heartbreaking reimagining of Homeric epic.
Also available in eBook on CloudLibrary |
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| Spinning Silver by Naomi NovikWhat it is: A mash-up of "Rumpelstiltskin" and Russian fairy tales by the author of Uprooted.
Starring: Moneylender's daughter Miryam, whose success in turning silver into gold attracts the attention of the icy Staryk, a race of otherworldly creatures.
Also available in eBook on Libby |
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| Malice by Heather WalterWhat it's about: Alyce, the "Dark Grace" whose Vila heritage makes her an outcast among the other "gold-blooded" Fae, finds a friend (and more) in Princess Aurora of Briar, cursed to die unless she finds true love before her 21st birthday.
Series alert: This debut kicks off the Malice duology; a sequel, Misrule, is currently in the works.
You might also like: Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered, another sapphic Sleepy Beauty retelling. |
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| Norse Mythology by Neil GaimanWhat it is: Neil Gaiman's "spectacularly entertaining and elucidating" (Library Journal) take on the Norse pantheon.
Want a taste? "Before the beginning there was nothing -- no earth, no heavens, no stars, no sky: only the mistworld, formless and shapeless, and the fire world, always burning."
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on Libby |
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