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Fantasy and Science Fiction January 2020
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This is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
What happens: Two time traveling operatives from competing futures fall in love, expressing their longing through letters composed in lava flows, glasses of water, tree rings, and more.
Why you might like it: Fritz Leiber's The Big Time meets Ian McDonald's Time Was in this lyrical epistolary love story.
About the authors: Lebanese-Canadian author Amal El-Mohtar is the author of The Honey Month; Campbell Award nominee Max Gladstone is best known for his popular Craft novels.
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Shadowblack
by Sebastien De Castell
Forced to live as an outlaw, sixteen-year-old Kellen is travelling with a gambler and a squirrel cat when he encounters a young woman whose secrets entangle them in a conspiracy of blackmail, magic, and murder
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| Anyone by Charles SouleWhat happens: An accidental scientific breakthrough sets off a seismic societal shift as consciousness-transfer (i.e. body swapping) becomes an integral part of life for many (but not all) people.
For fans of: the twisty, dual-timeline narrative of Blake Crouch's SF thriller Recursion.
Media buzz: a TV adaptation is already in the works, courtesy of the people who brought you Downton Abbey. |
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The winter vow / Tim Akers
by Tim Akers
On the eve of battle an army tears itself apart from within and a new force rises with the power to raise the dead and harness wild gods. Malcolm Blakley's fighters flee, alliances shift, and Malcolm is once more running for his life. Soon he will find new allies, as deadly and trecherous as those he opposes
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Uncompromising honor
by David Weber
After the League, committing atrocities such as the galaxy has not known in 1,000 years, kills many of the people she loves, Honor Harrington, a.k.a. the Salamander, is about to show them something they could have never imagined.
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Gideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
Introducing: Lesbian swordswoman Gideon Nav, indentured servant in the House of the Ninth; and her nemesis, necromancer Lady Harrowhark Nonegesimus, who may be her best shot at freedom.
Why you might like it: This edgy, irreverent debut boasts a foul-mouthed, snarky heroine; an enemies-to-not-quite-lovers plot; a murder mystery in the midst of an interplanetary competition; and necromancy.
For fans of: the revenge plot of Jay Kristoff's Nevernight Chronicle; the protagonist and atmosphere of Nicole Kornher-Stace's Archivist Wasp.
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The rise of magicks
by Nora Roberts
In a conclusion to the trilogy that began with Year One, Fallon finds the limits of her magick skills tested by the needs of the Purity Warrior victims at the same time she is confronted by an old nemesis.
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| The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell JohnsonIn a world... where the one-two punch of nuclear war and a global pandemic has brought about the apocalypse, 23-year-old Lynn McBride and her family establish a remote settlement in the Canadian Yukon.
What happens next: Lynn's hardscrabble but predictable life is upended by the unexpected arrival of Jax, a mysterious stranger pursued by a sinister quasi-governmental agency.
For fans of: post-apocalyptic wilderness survival stories such as Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow, Marcel Theroux's Far North or Beth Lewis' The Wolf Road. |
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Spellslinger
by Sebastien De Castell
Lacking magical talent but desperate to prove his worth as a mage before his sixteenth birthday, Kellen hones his other skills--guile and trickery--and allies with an Argosi wanderer who encourages Kellen to pursue a different path
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The grand dark
by Richard Kadrey
An ambitious addict and bike messenger uses an elite contact to lift himself up out of the slums of post-Great War Lower Proszawa in this new novel from the best-selling author of the Sandman Slim series.
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