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Fantasy and Science Fiction June 2026 |
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| The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John ChuEllie has enough problems in her life without the known universe falling apart. But when she and her cousin Daniel discover a mysterious device inside the apparatus keeping the universe in check, it will lead them on a dangerous journey with Ellie's mom at the center. John Chu's debut novel "finds a delightful and poignant intersection between the multiverse, family dysfunction, and dim sum" (Library Journal). For fans of: stylistically complex and emotionally resonant science fiction. |
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| Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin FeinsteinIn this story told through epistolary emails, chat messages, and more, a new employee of the "most trusted" AI corporation UniView gets more than he bargained for when impending deadlines around the launch of a new, strangely quick-to-learn advertising bot push safety protocols aside. For fans of: timely and witty satire on our technology-driven future, with a surprising injection of hope, such as Virtuality by Derek D. Cressman and Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky. |
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| The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda LeeIsako's long legacy as a legendary samurai for hire is close to an end. When she's offered one last job she can't refuse, she's suddenly thrust into a world of espionage far more complex than she can handle...and secrets that may change all of humanity. Immersive, evocative, and full of unique worldbuilding, this space opera with an older female protagonist will be a treat for readers of Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi and Bethany Jacobs' These Burning Stars. |
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Cash and Gravity
by Perrin Pring
In the not so distant future, six mega corporations and their privatized armies have supplanted the American government. They compete for resources, market position, and the ultimate long game prize of colonizing the stars.Chevy Cole left her family behind for life as a Launch Tech marine and never looked back. When rumors spread that one of the Big Six has created a fusion device that would put the stars within reach, all-out war looms. Chevy realizes that their survival may also determine who controls the future. But when greed is the only rule of law, who can she trust?
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The Franchise
by Thomas Elrod
Game of Thrones meets The Truman Show in this epic tale of a Hollywood-owned fantasy world where nothing is quite as it seems to the people who live and die at the studio's whim. A land filled with magic and dragons and wizards and warriors. Thousands of people live and work within its borders, fearful of their enemies and loyal to their king. The classic fantasy world of The Malicarn has been brought to life on the big screen in a series of phenomenally successful blockbuster movies, almost entirely populated by characters in total belief that their sham fantasy lives are real.
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If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light
by Kim Choyeop
A stunning and poignant collection of stories that explore the complexities of identity, love, death, and the search for life's meaning. In one, a man comes across a company called Emotional Solids that sells emotions as material products--love as a piece of chocolate, sadness as a smooth stone, anger as a glass paperweight--and tries to understand why people would want to purchase negative emotions. Traversing the bounds of imagination with an ethereal incisiveness, Kim Cho-yeop's stories dismantle the borders between normal and abnormal, material and abstract, earthly and otherworldly.
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Ode to the Half-Broken
by Suzanne Palmer
In the abandoned New York Botanical Gardens, forty years after the world nearly ended, a worn-out robot is attacked, and realizes old evils are stirring. Wrestling with themes of loneliness, connection, and purpose, this hope-punk sci-fi is for fans of Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot duology. "Readers will quickly get pulled into the setting, love the characters, and root for the good guys." (Booklist)
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