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Fantasy and Science Fiction July 2017
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The Moon and the Other
by John Kessel
John Kessel has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on the moon, a society that is flawed by love and sex, and on the brink of a destructive civil war. In the middle of the twenty-second century, over three million people live in underground cities below the moon's surface. One city-state, the Society of Cousins, is matriarchy, where men are supported in any career choice, and can have all the sex they want, but no right to vote--and tensions are beginning to flare as outside political intrigues increase. When Society secrets are revealed, the first moon war erupts, and everyone must decide what is truly worth fighting for.
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Void Star
by Zachary Mason
In a near-future world of rising seas, emptying central latitudes and discriminating weapons-drone patrols, a woman with an artificial eidetic memory works as a medium between her wealthy employers and AIs while a marginalized refugee and the disabled son of a Brazilian political clan struggle for survival on the outskirts of an elite San Francisco.
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Walkaway
by Cory Doctorow
Abandoning formal society to pursue a minimalist counterculture life in a near-future world wrecked by climate change, a disenchanted senior and his heiress paramour inspire a host of followers who become obsessed with cheating death in ways that turn the world upside down. By the award-winning author of Little Brother.
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Wicked Abyss
by Kresley Cole
As an ungainly demon boy, Abyssian "Sian" Infernas had his heart shattered by a treacherous fey beauty. When he grew into a breathtaking demon, Sian fantasized about seducing and spurning her, but she died before he could exact vengeance. Millennia later, a curse has amplified his hell-demon blood, transforming him into an unrecognizable monster--just as she's been reincarnated. When truths from a far distant past are revealed and identities discovered, can their tenuous bond withstand ages of deceit--and a looming supernatural war?
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Assassin's Fate
by Robin Hobb
Epic Fantasy. Believing his beloved daughter, Bee, to be dead, assassin FitzChivalry "Fitz" Farseer converts his rescue mission into a revenge quest -- accompanied (as always) by his enigmatic companion, the Fool. Assassin's Fate concludes the Fitz and the Fool trilogy, which begins with Fool's Assassin. Although this atmospheric series stands on its own, these flawed yet sympathetic characters and their richly detailed world, the Realm of the Elderlings, made their first appearance in The Farseer trilogy (starting with Assassin's Apprentice).
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Vanguard
by Jack Campbell
When a nearby world attacks Earth, Robert Geary, a young former junior fleet officer, and Mele Darcy, a former enlisted Marine, gather together weapons and a few volunteers to face down warships and armored soldiers, while Carmen Ochoa and Lochan Nakamura hope to lay the foundations for a mutual defense. By the New York Times best-selling author of the Lost Fleet series.
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| Starship Troopers by Robert A. HeinleinClassic SF. During a far-future war between humanity and the extraterrestrial Pseudo-Arachnids known as "the Bugs," young Juan "Johnnie" Rico serves in the Mobile Infantry, a unit in which soldiers wear powered full-body armor that not only protects them but gives them super-human strength and speed. While this novel boasts plenty of action, its meditations on war, civic responsibility, and sacrifice have ensured its inclusion on the U.S. Marine Corps' official reading list since its original publication in 1959. |
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| The Bees: A Novel by Laline PaullDystopian Fiction. The rules are simple: "Accept, Obey, and Serve." But worker bee Flora 717 is destined to put that motto to the test. As she rises through the colony's ranks -- from sanitation worker to nurse, from forager to Queen's handmaid -- Flora observes, questions, and challenges the hive's strict laws, and neither the brainwashing effects of honey nor the all-consuming pheromonal power of Queen's Love can stop her. But honeybee colonies are super-organisms whose survival depends on the suppression of individual desires in service of the common good. Will Flora prove to be the savior of her hive, or the agent of its destruction? |
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The Swarm
by Orson Scott Card
A prequel to Ender's Game profiles the past of Ender's world and is set in the aftermath of the Scouring of China as part of the Formic's efforts to eradicate all life on Earth. By the best-selling authors of Invasive Procedures.
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Aliens: Bug Hunt: All-new Tales from the Expanded Alien Universe
by Jonathan Maberry
Eighteen brand new stories—exclusive to this collection—featuring the Colonial Marines in bloody conflict with the deadly Aliens. Authors include Heather Graham, Scott Sigler, Rachel Caine, David Farland and Larry Correia. ALIENS: BUG HUNT will send the marines into deep space, to alien worlds, to derelict space settlements, and into the nests of the universe’s most dangerous monsters.
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| Mort(e): A Novel by Robert RepinoDystopian SF. Transformed by the Change, a pheromone-based biological attack by ant queen Hymenoptera, former house cat Sebastian becomes the bipedal, English-speaking, but still unmistakably feline warrior Mort(e), fighting to exterminate all humans. Between missions, he searches for Sheba, the dog who was his best friend before his metamorphosis. Fans of George Orwell's Animal Farm or Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs should appreciate this allegorical tale of love and war. |
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