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Fantasy and Science Fiction November 2020
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Hoopla
Check out up to 8 titles a month.
Bonus borrows are back!
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Red Dust
by Yoss
From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals. On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens-praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan Collosaurs with a limited sense of humor-kindly allow them to do business through properly controlled channels.
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Polaris rising : a novel
by Jessie Mihalik
Seizing control of her own destiny, princess Ada von Hasenburg, the fifth of six children, escapes from her betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars where she, for two long years, eludes capture until her luck runs out. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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Lovecraft Country: A Novel
by Matt Ruff
Chicago, 1954: Black army veteran Atticus Turner sets out on a road trip across the segregated United States to find his missing father, encountering both racism and eldritch horrors along the way.
Media buzz: Lovecraft Country is now a critically acclaimed HBO series.
For fans of: dark fantasy that employs Lovecraftian themes to examine racism, such as Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic, or N.K. Jemisin's The City We Became.
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The midnight bargain
by C. L. Polk
The award-winning author of Witchmark presents a romantic fantasy set in a magical Regency England, where a sorceress must balance magic-ending familial duty with her ambition to become her world’s first great sorceress. 25,000 first printing.
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The Poppy War
by R.F. Kuang
What it’s about: In this historical military fantasy, dark-skinned war orphan Rin surprises everyone when she aces the entrance exam for Sinegard, the most revered military academy in all of Nikan. Will her discovery that she has shamanic powers help her prove to herself and her classmates that she’s worthy of her place?
Why you might like it: Punctuated with mysticism, treachery, and martial arts, this debut novel (the (the 1st in a planned trilogy) is inspired by real events in 20th-century China.
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A winter's promise
by Christelle Dabos
When Ophelia, who can travel through mirrors, is betrothed to an influential member of a faraway clan, she journeys to the towering city of Citaceleste, where she realizes she has become a pawn in a dangerous political game
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Peter Darling
by Austin Chant
Ten years ago, Peter Pan left Neverland to grow up, leaving behind his adolescent dreams of boyhood and resigning himself to life as Wendy Darling. Growing up, however, has only made him realize how inescapable his identity as a man is.But when he returns to Neverland, everything has changed: the Lost Boys have become men, and the war games they once played are now real and deadly. Even more shocking is the attraction Peter never knew he could feel for his old rival, Captain Hook—and the realization that he no longer knows which of them is the real villain.
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Leviathan Wakes
by James S.A. Corey
In a world... where Earth has colonized the solar system, diplomatic relations between Earth, Mars, and the unincorporated settlements of the asteroid belt are strained, to say the least.
What it is: A hard -- and hard-boiled -- geopolitical space opera with a dash of noir detective story.
Book buzz: This ongoing series provides the source material for the Syfy television series The Expanse.
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To sleep in a sea of stars
by Christopher Paolini
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race. 2 million first printing.
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A Deadly Education
by Naomi Novik
What it's about: Galadriel "El" Higgins, a loner with an affinity for dark magic, just wants to survive until graduation, but the heroics of her classmate, golden boy Orion Lake, may prove more lethal than the maleficaria that infest the school.
Is it for you? This 1st book in the Scholomance series has garnered controversy over the inclusion of racial stereotypes, for which the author has apologized and pledged to remove from subsequent editions.
For fans of: Marina and Sergey Dyachenko's Vita Nostra, Lev Grossman's The Magicians, or Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House.
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