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Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2025
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Gifted & talented
by Olivie Blake
Three telepathic and electrokinetically gifted children of a recently-deceased tech mogul: a biotech fraud, a struggling congressman and a former ballerina, each vie for control of his groundbreaking business empire in a ruthless inheritance war.
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Blood of Hercules
by Jasmine Mas
I'm Hercules. I'm struggling to survive in a Titan infested world where Spartans, immortals from twelve royal families who have god-like powers and obscene wealth, rule over all. A shy-stammering foster child with nothing, I keep my head down, cover my scars, and focus on excelling in school...Then it happens. My blood test reveals I'm part of the powerful elite.
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Slaying the Vampire Conqueror
by Carissa Broadbent
Serving the Goddess of Fate has turned Sylina from orphaned street rat to disciplined killer, determined to overthrow Glaea's tyrannical king, but when she is asked to infiltrate a vampire conqueror army and become seer to warrior Atrius, her forbidden connection with him keeps growing stronger.
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The mercy of gods
by James S. A. Corey
When the Carryx decimate the human population, taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society to serve on their homeworld, Dafyd Alkhor, swept along with them, is forced to compete against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure.
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The buffalo hunter hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.
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These burning stars
by Bethany Jacobs
Jun Ironway-hacker, con artist, and occasional thief-has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago.
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On vicious worlds
by Bethany Jacobs
The Jeveni have finally found freedom on the distant planet Capamame, delivered from Kindom oppression through their alliance with stoic Cleric Chono, intrepid caster Jun Ironway, and Six, the wildly unpredictable manipulator who has outwitted the Nightfoot family. But when Six and Chono return to the Treble star systems, the dream of freedom meets a dangerous test.
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Carl's doomsday scenario
by Matt Dinniman
As part of a live gameshow, Carl and his feline companion Donut must navigate the increasingly dangerous dungeon levels of Earth, solving increasingly deadly quests, in the second novel of the series following Dungeon Crawler Carl.
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Service model
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
When a domesticated robot alters its programming, murdering their owner, they flee into a wider world they never knew existed, discovering the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
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Assassin's Creed : The Fall
by Karl Kerschl
Introducing the Assassin Nikolai Orelov, a Ukrainian immigrant who followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Assassin's Brotherhood in Tsarist Russia to combat the monarchy. Join Orelov in his pursuit of an artifact of immense power, from the mysterious and devastating Tunguska explosion to the streets of Petrograd, just as the Bolshevik Revolution takes hold. Meanwhile, in modern times, a troubled young drifter, Daniel Cross, struggles with unsettling visions of a possible past life...visions that have catastrophic and irreversible consequences for the present.
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