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Fantasy and Science Fiction August 2024 |
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The seventh spell
by T. Davis Bunn
Traveling to Mars armed with seven ancient spells, Adrian Capstan, hoping to connect to the red planet's magical forces to bring the mysterious spells alive, is instead drawn into an epic fight for survival and must unlock the spells' true power before it's too late.
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| The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah BrooksWhen the Trans-Siberian Express takes a new set of passengers across the Wastelands, home to miraculous and terrifying creatures, the rules of the magical landscape change and the travelers must trust each other as the wildness outside threatens to consume them all. |
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The sky on fire
by Jenn Lyons
When she's spirited away to the dragon-ruled sky cities by a group of cunning misfits who need her help to steal from a dragon's hoard, Anahrod, who lives only for survival, discovers there's one problem: the hoard in question belongs to a woman who wants her dead.
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| The Spellshop by Sarah Beth DurstWhen the Great Library of Alyssium goes up in flames, introverted librarian Kiela and her sentient spider plant flee to the faraway island of her childhood where she opens a spell shop to restore the island’s power, coming out of her shell to make a new life for herself. |
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| The Bright Sword by Lev GrossmanArriving in Camelot just after the death of King Arthur, young Collum joins the ragtag remnants of the Knights of the Round Table to defend Britian's throne from a magical threat. In his first adult fantasy since the Magicians series, author Lev Grossman plumbs the depths of Arthurian legend to create an inventive new epic. |
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Gravity lost
by L. M. Sagas
After turning over Isaiah Drestyn to the Union, the crew of the Ambit realizes that he may expose some of their own dirty secrets and must jailbreak him, in the follow-up to Cascade Failure.
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Books You May Have Missed
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The Iron Princess
by Barbara Hambly
To save her people from the Crystal Mages, who are harnessing legendary creatures that seem to be proof against any magic, Clea Stylachos, the granddaughter of the great sage of the Twilight people, must convince wizard Ithrazel the Cursed to help her battle against an evil bent on destroying the world.
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| Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah JohnsonWhen mutilated bodies surface in both her town and the affluent, walled-off Wiley City, enforcer Scales is assigned the grim task of uncovering and eradicating the underlying cause. Little does she know this mission will expose corruption far beyond her expectations, and it may spell catastrophe for the entire world. |
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| Big Time by Ben H. WintersGrace Berney, a disillusioned mid-level bureaucrat, uncovers a sinister conspiracy to harvest and sell people’s time. Facing a mid-life crisis, she risks everything to save a young woman whose hospital photo comes across her desk. This fast-paced thriller is also a metaphysical mystery about the very nature of our lives. |
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| Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud WoolfIn a futuristic Bubble City, washed-up star Lulabelle Rock spawns a 13th clone whose sole mission is to eliminate her predecessors. But love complicates matters as the clone assassin faces a moral dilemma. This is a thrilling sci-fi tale where the line between clones and people blurs, and love proves more complex than expected. |
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