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Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2019
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| The True Queen by Zen ChoAmnesiac sisters Muna and Sakti, must travel from colonial Malaysia to Regency England (by way of Fairyland) to consult with Sorcerer Royal Prunella about the curse that afflicts them
Sequel to Sorcerer to the Crown..
For fans of: Mary Robinette Kowal's Glamourist Histories, Caroline Stevermer's A College of Magics books, and Georgette Heyer novels. |
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| The Perfect Assassin by K.A. DooreJust as 19-year-old Amastan Basbowen completes his five-year apprenticeship, the city of Ghadid outlaws the assassin trade. This leaves Amastan free to investigate when a city leader is murdered.
For fans of: the atmospheric world-building of Tasha Suri's Empire of Sand; the well-developed assassin culture of R.J. Barker's Age of Assassins. |
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| The Light Brigade by Kameron HurleySoldiers in the war against Mars, The Light Brigade, live brief lives, but the veterans are starting to be affected by changes in their bodies and minds, slipping in and out of time, or are they simply going mad?
For fans of: Joe Haldeman's classic military SF novel The Forever War.
Also check out Hurley's Hugo Award winning novel The Stars are Legion
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| A Memory Called Empire by Arkady MartineNewly appointed ambassador Mahit Dzmare investigates the suspicious death of her predecessor while navigating political intrigue within the expansionist Teixcalaanli Empire.
For fans of: Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy, Seth Dickinson's Masquerade series, or Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor. |
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A people's future of the United States : speculative fiction from 25 extraordinary writers
by Victor D. LaValle
For many Americans, imagining a bright future has always been an act of resistance.
Edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams, this collection features a glittering landscape of moving, visionary stories written from the perspective of people of color, indigenous writers, women, queer & trans people, Muslims and other people whose lives are often at risk.
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| The Chaos Function by Jack SkillingsteadOn assignment in Syria, American war correspondent Olivia Nikitas comes in contact with an artifact that enables her to change the past, putting her on a collision course with the Society, the self-appointed guardians of this mysterious technology.
For fans of: time travel-themed SF thrillers with apocalyptic overtones such as Tom Sweterlitsch's The Gone World or Alastair Reynolds' Permafrost. |
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| Brief Cases: More Stories from the Dresden Files by Jim ButcherAn all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City's favorite wizard. The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue--and creatures of all supernatural stripes. |
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| Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin; illustrated by Doug WheatleyBook 1 of a two-volume history of the Targaryens, which recounts how the dragonlord dynasty came to Westeros. Beginning with King Aegon I and extending to the coming-of-age of Aegon III, some 130 years later.
Presented as the transcription of an archmaester's writings, this first volume of the History of House Targaryen of Westeros reads a lot like Thomas B. Costain's Plantagenet histories. |
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| The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss; illustrated by Nate TaylorLiving in the abandoned tunnel system beneath the University, the enigmatic Auri reflects on her bittersweet life while making unique observations about the broken world she seeks to survive.
Reviewers say: The Slow Regard of Silent Things is "a charming, lyrical meditation on the meaning of home" (NPR). |
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| Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection by Brandon SandersonA collection of eight stories and one graphic novel excerpt set in the Cosmere -- the universe that contains author Brandon Sanderson's Elantris, Mistborn novels, and the Stormlight Archive series.
Reviewers say: "required reading for Sanderson fans" (Publishers Weekly). |
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