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Fantasy and Science Fiction June 2024
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| Escape Velocity by Victor ManiboRochford Institute alums Henry, Ava, Laz, and Sloane arrive at the Space Habitat Altaire for their twenty-fifth reunion and soon find themselves in the midst of intrigue and murder in this intricately plotted science fiction mystery. You might also like: Mur Lafferty's Midsolar Murders series; Ian McDonald's Luna novels; Tade Thompson's Far from the Light of Heaven. |
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| The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha MillsStripped of both her rank and her mechanical wings, Zemolai reflects on her decades of service as one of Radezha's Winged enforcers while wrestling with her complicity in the city-state's slide into fascism. A parallel storyline focuses on Zenya, Zemolai's idealistic younger self, and the life-altering choices she made. You might also like: Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory; C.L. Clark's The Unbroken. |
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| Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies OkungbowaThe inhabitants of the Pinnacle, a partially submerged high-rise building, find their lives upended by the arrival of a sea monster. Set in a future Lagos transformed by sea-level rise, this novel by the author of the Nameless Republic series follows three protagonists from different social classes as they respond to a natural disaster. For fans of: Hugh Howey's Silo series. |
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| When Among Crows by Veronica RothIn this "captivating, bite-sized" (Publishers Weekly) urban fantasy by the author of Arch-Conspirator, human monster hunter Dymitr approaches Ala in a Chicago bar and offers her a curse-breaking magical flower in exchange for her help in locating Baba Jaga. You might also like: Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar; Zalika Reid-Benta's River Mumma. |
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| The Practice, The Horizon, and The Chain by Sofia SamatarBorn and raised in the Hold, a nameless boy receives an academic scholarship to the University, where, under the tutelage of his professor, he makes unsettling discoveries about his world. This novella "combines space adventure with an examination of the carceral state" (Library Journal) Read-alikes: Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts; Seth Dickinson's Exordia. |
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