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Fantasy and Science Fiction June 2024 |
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| A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie CathrallIn the wake of the mysterious disappearances of independent scholar E. Cidnosin and academic Henerey Clel, their respective siblings, Sophy and Vyerin, study the couple's correspondence in search of clues to their fate. This epistolary fantasy romance is the 1st book in the Sunken Archive series. |
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
by P. Djáelâi Clark
One of the Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Eveen the Eviscerator, highly skilled, discreet and professional, when the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the ancient city of Tal Abisi upside down, is brought face-to-face with a past she isn't supposed to remember and a vow she can't forget.
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Annie Bot : a Novel
by Sierra Greer
Looks at the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy and control.
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The Black Bird Oracle: a Novel
by Deborah Harkness
When the Congregation demands she and Matthew test the magic of their 7-year-old twins, Oxford scholar and witch Diana Bishop, forging a different path, confronts her family's dark past and reckons with her desire for even greater power—if she can let go of her fear of wielding it.
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Three Kinds of Lucky
by Kim Harrison
Working at the mages' university due to her rare ability to handle dross—the damaging, magical waste generated by spellwork—Petra Grady, after an unthinkable accident, seeks out an outcast exiled for the crime of using dross to cast spells, who convinces her to embrace her own hidden talents.
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Those Beyond the Wall
by Micaiah Johnson
When mutilated bodies turn up, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause—a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen—and it could spell doom for the enter world.
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Empire of the Damned
by Jay Kristoff
Drawn into an uneasy alliance with the mysterious vampire Liathe, Gabriel de Leon must now deliver the Grail to ancients of the Blood Esani, and learn the truth of how Daysdeath might be finally undone.
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| Road To Ruin by Hana LeeMagebike courier Jin-Lu traverses the wastelands, delivering letters between star-crossed lovers Prince Kadrin of Kerina Sol and Princess Yi-Nereen of Kerina Rut while pining for them both. This action-packed science fantasy debut, the 1st installment of a planned series, is "savage, sexy, and deliciously screwed up" (Publishers Weekly). |
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Fruit of the Dead: a Novel
by Rachel Lyon
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter is set over the course of one summer on a lush private island and explores addiction and sex, family and independence and who holds the power in a modern underworld.
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| Escape Velocity by Victor ManiboRochford Institute alums Henry, Ava, Laz, and Sloane arrive at the Space Habitat Altaire for their 25th reunion and soon find themselves in the midst of intrigue and murder in this intricately plotted SF mystery by the author of Sleepless. |
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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. |
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Projections
by S. E. Porter
After murdering the young woman he couldn't have, a sorcerer sends projections of himself out into the world to seek out and seduce women who will return the love she denied—or suffer a fate worse than death.
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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 zmora Ala in a Chicago bar and offers her a curse-breaking magical flower in exchange for her help in locating Baba Jaga. |
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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 by the author of Tender "combines space adventure with an examination of the carceral state" (Library Journal) Read-alikes: Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts; Emily Devenport's Medusa Cycle series. |
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Cahokia Jazz: a Novel
by Francis Spufford
A detective and his indigenous jazz pianist partner investigate a seemingly ordinary murder that ultimately threatens to unravel the peace and reveal hidden secrets in an alternate history version of 1920s America where Native American populations thrived.
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Tales of the Celestial Kingdom
by Sue Lynn Tan
Collecting nine enchanting stories set in the Immortal Realm—a world of gods, magic and legendary creatures—the beautifully illustrated volume, told from the perspectives of multiple characters, is filled with magic, mythology, friendship and love.
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| The Brides of High Hill by Nghi VoThe adventures of Cleric Chih continue as the itinerant monk accompanies a young bride to the estate of her mysterious, much older groom. Gothic atmosphere infuses this "pleasantly terrifying" (Booklist) 5th installment of the Singing Hills Cycle, following Mammoths at the Gates. |
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Big Time
by Ben H Winters
The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
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The Icarus Job
by Timothy Zahn
Hoping to take possession of a new alien star-hopping portal, Roarke and Selene are tasked with transporting an assassin, who is herself being targeted.
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