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Fantasy and Science Fiction December 2018
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
by Hank Green
Coming home from work, April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship--like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor--April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world and April, as their first documentarian, has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity, and her safety.
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The Lost Queen
by Signe Pike
Main Character: Languoreth--a forgotten queen of sixth-century Scotland--twin sister of the man who inspired the legend of Merlin
I write because I have seen the darkness that will come. Already there are those who seek to tell a new history... In a land of mountains and mist, tradition and superstition, Languoreth navigates the violent forces of Christianity and Anglo-Saxon colonization to preserve the Old Ways and fight for her kingdom's survival.
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| Empire of Sand by Tasha SuriIntroducing: Mehr, the daughter of an imperial governor of the Ambhan Empire and an Amrithi woman. From her mother, whose people are said to be descended from supernatural beings, Mehr has inherited abilities that make her a threat to those in power.
Series alert: Drawing on the history of Mughal India, Empire of Sand is the 1st installment of the Books of Ambha series.
You might also like: S.A. Chakraborty's The City of Brass and Rati Mehrotra's Asiana series. |
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| Red Moon by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe backstory: By 2048, China has colonized the Moon.
What happens: When hapless American Fred Fredericks is falsely accused of murder, he must evade the authorities and escape to Earth with the help of politician's daughter Chan Qi and journalist Ta Shu.
For fans of: the geopolitical lunar colony intrigue found in Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Adam Roberts’ Gradisil, or Ian McDonald’s Luna: New Moon. |
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| The Consuming Fire by John ScalziWhat it's about: a collapsing intergalactic empire and the leader who's trying desperately to save it.
Series alert: The Consuming Fire is the 2nd Interdependency novel, after The Collapsing Empire.
Is it for you? Fans of John Scalzi's work will find this action-packed space opera closer in tone to his Old Man's War series than his more recent Lock In novels. |
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Books You May Have Missed
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City of Stairs
by Robert Jackson Bennett
Sent to a backwater colony that was once a god-supported conquering power, spymaster Shara Divani investigates the brutal murder of a historian and uncovers evidence that the city's divine protectors may still be alive.
Series alert: To experience the full effect of this series' well-drawn characters, complex plot, and meticulous world-building, start with City of Stairs, followed by City of Blades, and end with City of Miracles.
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Phantom Pains
by Mishell Baker
Pulled back onto the Arcadia Project after losing her partner Teo to the lethal magic of an Unseelie fey countess, Millie must prove the innocence of her former boss, Caryl, when she is accused of murdering an agent, which draws Millie into an insidious, arcane terrorist plot that would leave two worlds in ruins.
Series: This is the second book in the series that began with Borderline and continues in Impostor Syndrome.
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The Wild Dead
by Carrie Vaughn
A century after environmental and economic collapse, the people of the Coast Road have rebuilt their own sort of civilization, striving not to make the mistakes their ancestors did. Enid of Haven is an investigator, who with her new partner Teeg is called on to mediate a dispute --and then the body of a young woman turns up in the nearby marshland. Enid wants to find out who killed her, even as Teeg argues that the murder isn't their problem.
Series alert: Sequel to Carrie Vaughn's post-apocalyptic mystery Bannerless
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Six Wakes
by Mur Lafferty
Awakening in a cloning vat, streaked with blood and possessing no memory of how she died, new clone Maria Arena discovers the clones of six former starship crew members and must identify their murderers before the killer strikes again.
Awards: Nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula Award for the Best Novel of 2018
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