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Fantasy and Science Fiction March 2024
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| The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine ArdenUpon receiving a message during a séance that her missing soldier brother Freddie is still alive, former army nurse Laura Iven travels from Nova Scotia to Belgium to find him. Parallel narratives follow the siblings' separate quests in this richly detailed, heavily atmospheric World War I-set historical fantasy novel by the author of the Winternight trilogy. Read-alikes: Mary Robinette Kowal's Ghost Talkers; Luanne G. Smith's The Witch's Lens. |
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Exordia
by Seth Dickinson
This "violent, vivid, vicious" (Library Journal) first contact novel by the author of the Masquerade trilogy follows a diverse group of humans and aliens in the aftermath of an invasion by the extraterrestrial Exordia. Read-alikes: Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy; Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past series; Tade Thompson's Wormwood trilogy.
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The Tusks of Extinction
by Ray Nayler
The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina becomes the matriarch of a mammoth herd when her consciousness is uploaded into an animal's body as part of a "de-extinction" project. Will her expertise on elephant behavior be enough to ensure the survival of the herd and the species? You might also like: Lee Mandelo's Feed Them Silence; Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard.
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Whalefall
by Daniel Kraus
What happens: While diving in the Pacific, Jay Gardiner is swallowed by an 80-foot-long sperm whale and has just one hour to escape before his oxygen supply runs out.
Reviewers say: The "scientific and biological accuracy enhances the disturbing realism" (Publishers Weekly) of this "moving character study disguised as a riveting, cinematic survival thriller" (Booklist).
For fans of: tense SF survival stories, such as Andy Weir's The Martian.
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Prophet
by Helen Macdonald
"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are called in to investigate. In a surreal, action-packed quest that takes Adam and Rao from secret laboratories in Colorado, to a luxury lodge in Aspen, to the remote Nevada desert, the two begin to uncover how and why people's fondest memories are being manifested and weaponized against them by a spooky, ever-shifting substance called Prophet. As the unlikely duo battle this strange new reality, peoples' happiest memories are materializing in increasingly bizarre and tangible forms, ranging from toys and pets to fairground rides, which then turn malevolent."
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To challenge heaven
by David Weber
The Earth, now a starfaring civilization, is desperate for allies in a universe teeming with hostile aliens and predators, and a group of determined individuals make a discovery that could bring down the Hegemony that dominates the galaxy once and for all.
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