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Fantasy and Science Fiction March 2020
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Gamechanger
by L. X Beckett
Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation, the first to be raised free of the troubles of the late-21st century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with anti-social behavior. That's how she met Luciano Pox. But there's more to him than being a lightning rod for controversy. Rubi has to find out why the governments of the world want to bring Luce into custody, and why Luce is hell bent on stopping the recovery of the planet.
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Blood ink
by Dana Fredsti
Lee Striga -- stuntwoman and demon-killer extraordinaire -- is in dire need of a job, any job. After the disastrously events of her last movie, word has got around that Lee's a dangerous woman. Hollywood -- even the supernatural side of it -- hasclosed its doors to her. That is, until a mysterious new producer appears with a job offer that seems too good to be true. Pity Lee can't stand the sight of him. But beggars can't be choosers, and soon Lee is in New Orleans, working stunts on a horror movie like no other -- with a cast and crew of werecats, crocodile-men, and an artistically frustrated ghoul. But before she even arrives on set, Lee's demon-killing legacy as Lilith's descendant draws her into a whole new mystery, and a desperate fight forsurvival.
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The edge
by Tim Lebbon
When their search for a woman who, after being struck by lightning twice vanishes without a trace, leads them to place folded away from reality, Angela, Vince and Dean must stop creatures of myth from starting a war with man.
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Escaping exodus : a novel
by Nicky Drayden
This is a story of a young woman named Seske Kaleigh, heir to the command of a biological, city-size starship carved up from the insides of a spacefaring beast. Her clan has just now culled their latest ship and the workers are busy stripping down the bonework for building materials, rerouting the circulatory system for mass transit, and preparing the cavernous creature for the onslaught of the general populous still in stasis. It’s all a part of the cycle her clan had instituted centuries ago - excavate the new beast, expand into its barely-living carcass, extinguish its resources over the course of a decade, then escape in a highly coordinated exodus back into stasis until they cull the next beast from the diminishing herd. And of course there wouldn’t be much of a story if things didn’t go terribly, terribly wrong..
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Jade war
by Fonda Lee
In a sequel to Jade City, the Kaul siblings forge new and dangerous alliances to fight political rivals and mercenary kingpins for control over the capital city and its supply of magical jade.
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Revolution
by W. L Goodwater
In the second novel in a thrilling Cold War fantasy series, American magician Karen O'Neil travels to Cuba to find a missing young girl intertwined with a new kind of magic that threatens to upend the balance of power of the whole world. In Cold War Berlin, American magician Karen O'Neil defeated the ghosts of Germany's past and sealed the breach that threatened the whole world, but in doing so she learned a terrible truth: Magic cannot be trusted. Despite her wariness of the new and growing powers she gained in Germany, Karen agrees to help an old friend and is drawn to Cuba, a world of opulence run by a corrupt government and ruthless, magic-obsessed mobsters. In Havana, while the fires of revolution kindle, Karen searches for a missing girl whose fate is intertwined with impossible and deadly magic. And she knows she's being watched; both the Soviets and the CIA have designs on this island paradise, and their eyes are everywhere. But spies and rebels aren't the only dangers hiding in Havana's long shadows, and Karen will learn that the future can be just as dangerous as the past.
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Bloodchild
by Anna Stephens
The fate of kingdoms and gods will be decided in the staggering conclusion to the debut series from one of fantasy's most exciting new voices. Return to Rilporin and witness the final battle in its desperate defence against the bloodthirsty Mireces.
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The revenant express
by George Mann
Racing against time to fetch a clockwork heart for his trusty assistant, Veronica, Sir Maurice Newbury and Veronica’s sister, Amelia, must contend with an old villain, thought dead, who is looking for revenge.
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| Vanguard by Jack CampbellIn a world...where Earth can no longer protect its far-flung colonies, veterans Robert Geary and Mele Darcy lend their military expertise to the inhabitants of fledgling settlement Glenlyon as they fend off an invasion.
Why you might like it: Author Jack Campbell draws on his former career in the U.S. Navy to write authentic-feeling military SF.
Series alert: Vanguard kicks off the Genesis Fleet series, which serves as a prequel to the author's popular Lost Fleet trilogy and explores the creation of the Alliance. |
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| Embers of War by Gareth PowellStarring: sentient warship Trouble Dog, who seeks to atone for her role in a genocide by joining rescue organization the House of Reclamation.
What happens: This intricately plotted series opener follows Trouble Dog and crew as they undertake what they believe to be a simple search-and-rescue operation and find themselves embroiled in galactic politics.
For fans of: Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. |
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| Infinite Stars: The Definitive Anthology of Space Opera and Military SF by Bryan Thomas Schmidt (editor); introduction by Robert SilverbergWhat it is: an anthology of 24 classic and contemporary short stories and novellas by an all-star roster of science fiction authors, most set in the worlds of their best-known series.
Includes: stories by Catherine Asaro, Lois McMaster Bujold, William C. Dietz, David Drake, Linda Nagata, Elizabeth Moon, Nnedi Okorafor, Alastair Reynolds, and David Weber, among others. |
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