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Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2021 |
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Small Magic : Short Fiction, 1977-2020
by Terry Brooks
"Escape to worlds full of adventure and magic in the first-ever Terry Brooks short story collection, featuring both new and fan-favorite stories from all three of his major literary worlds: Shannara, Magic Kingdom, and The Word & The Void. This collection offers readers both new and long-forgotten glimpses into all of Terry's most beloved worlds, plus one elegaic gem from a different world entirely."
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| The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky ChambersWhen a freak technological failure strands travelers at the Five-Hop One-Stop on the planet Gora, three alien strangers get to know each other in the fourth novel of the series following Record of a Spaceborn Few. |
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| The Unbroken by C. L. Clark"Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than she thought. Luca needs a turncoat. Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet's edge between treason and orders. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters: getting her uncle off her throne. Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. But some things aren't for sale." |
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In the Quick : A Novel
by Kate Hope Day
A young and ambitious woman astronaut’s life is upended by a fiery love affair that threatens the rescue of a 12-years-lost spacecraft and its crew of survivors. By the author of If, Then.
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The Future Is Yours : A Novel
by Dan Frey
Inventing a computer with a remarkable ability to browse the internet one year into the future, two best friends form a meteoric startup company in Silicon Valley before their innovation reveals a coming year that is anything but promising.
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The Light of All That Falls
by James Islington
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Shadow of What Was Lost finds Wirr navigating a precarious alliance, while a conflicted Davian is pitted against the remaining Venerate armies.
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| The House of Styx by Derek KünskenLife can exist anywhere. And anywhere there is life, there is home. In the swirling clouds of Venus, the families of la colonie live on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid rain and crackling storms. Outside is dangerous, but humankind's hold on the planet is fragile and they spend most of their days simply surviving. But Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is a wind that shouldn't exist. And the House of Styx wants to harness it. |
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Beyond
by Mercedes Lackey
The long-awaited founding of Valdemar comes to life in this new series from a New York Times best-selling author.
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The Last Graduate : A Novel
by Naomi Novik
"A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik's groundbreaking crossover series. At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year--and the looming specter of matriculation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive after. El is determined that her group will make it out alive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules . . "
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The Kingdoms
by Natasha Pulley
Diagnosed with a form of epilepsy that causes amnesia and hallucinations, Joe Tournier, in an England that is a peaceful colony under the Republic of France, leaves London to repair a Scottish lighthouse, which changes the way he sees the world, its history and himself.
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The Kraken's Tooth
by Anthony Ryan
Landless one-time king Guyime has survived the fall of the Execration—an event that set him on a path to find the legendary Seven Swords. Guided by sorcery, Guyime journeys to Carthula to claim the mythical blade known as the Kraken’s Tooth. Aided by three companions—the beast charmer, a powerful sorceress and a scholarly slave—Guyime ventures into Carthula’s perilous underbelly to secure a prize guarded by ancient magics, cursed spirits, and lethal traps.
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Hummingbird Salamander
by Jeff VanderMeer
Sent taxidermied specimens of two endangered species, a software manager becomes the target of the ecoterrorists and wildlife traffickers behind a catastrophic global conspiracy. By the award-winning author of the Southern Reach trilogy.
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