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Fantasy and Science Fiction July 2018
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| The Memory of Fire by Callie BatesWhat happens: In this follow-up to The Walking Land, Paladisian nobleman Jahan Korakides must hide his magic powers -- or face punishment by death. But as the former emperor prepares to invade, Jahan finds that magic might be the only way to maintain peace.
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The book of M : a novel
by Peng Shepherd
The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man's shadow disappears--an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. This haunting, thought-provoking, and beautiful novel explores fundamental questions of memory,connection, and what it means to be human in a world turned upside down
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| Medusa Uploaded by Emily DevenportStarring: Oichi Angelist, a genetically engineered “worm” who is "partially deaf, dumb, and blind" and toiling in domestic servitude for the Executives on the generation starship Olympia -- until she is joined with a sentient AI Medusa unit and sets out to change the world.
Reviewers say: “Richly detailed and gorgeously imagined…a gripping and unusual read” (Kirkus Reviews).
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Trail of Lightning
by Rebecca Roanhorse
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than anything she could imagine.
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Obscura
by Joe Hart
In the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms are disturbing. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research and desperately determined to find a cure. She will travel with a NASA team to a space station where the crew has been stricken with symptoms of a similar inexplicable psychosis. With her grip weakening on reality, she’s beginning to question so much more—like the true nature of the mission, the motivations of the crew, and every deadly new secret space has to offer.
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Good guys
by Steven Brust
Working for the secretive Foundation, Donovan, Susan and Marci—all of whom have special gifts, including teleportation and spellcasting—soon wonder if their employers are the good guys or just as bad as the enemies they fight against. New York Times best-selling author.
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Artificial Condition : The Murderbot Diaries
by Martha Wells
Storyline: It has a dark past―one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…
Series: The follow-up to Martha Wells's Nebula Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems Red
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