| Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories by Kelly BarnhillWhat it is: a collection of lush and lyrical short stories for adults by the Newbery Award-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon.
Read it for: "The Unlicensed Magician," which won the 2016 World Fantasy Award for best novella.
For fans of: Kelly Link's offbeat and atmospheric short story collections, such as Magic for Beginners and Stranger Things Happen. |
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| Lake Silence: The World of the Others by Anne BishopIntroducing: Vicki DeVine, a recent divorcée who moves to a village populated by the shapeshifting Others. Vicki's attempts at a fresh start are complicated by a murder investigation, her abusive ex-husband, and her eyeball-eating avian lodger, Aggie Crowe.
Series alert: Set in the world of the Courtyards of the Others series, Lake Silence is a stand-alone story that introduces a brand new cast of characters.
What about...? Fan favorites Meg Corbyn and Simon Wolfgard? Alas, they're not in this book. |
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| Blood of the Four by Christopher Golden and Tim LebbonWhat it's about: The Kingdom of Quandis. Founded by powerful gods, ruled by corrupt royals, and sustained by slave labor, it's a society teetering on the brink of civil war.
Why you might like it: With its detailed world-building and large cast of characters, Blood of the Four packs all of the drama and scope of a multi-volume epic fantasy saga into one stand-alone novel.
Reviewers say: Booklist promises that "the mayhem is epic." |
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| The Strange Bird: A Borne Story by Jeff VanderMeerIntroducing: The Strange Bird, an experimental human-animal hybrid created in a laboratory.
What happens: The eponymous protagonist makes a daring escape from captivity, only to find that freedom is elusive as she encounters humans who wish to exploit her.
Reviewers say: Booklist praises the "hallucinatory imagery and expressive prose" of this bleak and lyrical companion novella to Borne. |
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| The Abyss Beyond Dreams: A Novel of the Commonwealth by Peter F. HamiltonWhat it's about: Commonwealth founder Nigel Sheldon enters the Void and lands on the planet Bienvenido, inhabited by the descendants of colonists stranded centuries before. Now he and his new acquaintances are threatened by a hostile alien race known as the Fallers.
Series alert: The Abyss Beyond Dreams kicks off the Chronicle of the Fallers duology, which is set in the author's Commonwealth universe and concludes with A Night Without Stars. |
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Portal
by Eric Flint
A continuation of the series that includes Threshold finds Madeline Fathom and the stranded members of the Odin vessel struggling to survive the lethal elements of Europa while attempting to repair an escape shuttle, an effort that is further complicated by the discovery of a formidable trap.
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The end of the world running club
by Adrian J. Walker
A best-selling post-apocalyptic thriller from the UK follows the harrowing experiences of a man stranded on the wrong side of the country who pushes his limits to traverse more than 500 miles of devastated wasteland to return to his family. Original.
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