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Fantasy and Science Fiction September 2019
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| The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi EiseleWhat happens: As society breaks down, a high school principal embarks on a journey across the United States to find his long-distance lover.
Is it for you? Fans of gritty post-apocalyptic survival stories à la Cormac McCarthy's The Road should look elsewhere, as this hopeful debut focuses on community-minded folks rebuilding after catastrophe.
For fans of: Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and James Howard Kunstler's World Made By Hand. |
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Knaves over queens
by George R. R Martin
Featuring contribution by such authors as Paul Cornell, Mark Lawrence and Charles Stross, a latest Wild Cards adventure follows a superpowered Winston Churchill and Alan Turing as they outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the Xenovirus in Britain.
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| Wanderers by Chuck WendigWhat happens: A mysterious epidemic of sleepwalking accelerates societal collapse as sufferers and their caregivers traverse a deeply divided near-future United States.
Why you might like it: Unfolding from multiple perspectives, this sprawling yet suspenseful apocalyptic novel combines action with explorations of contemporary social issues.
For fans of: Stephen King's The Stand. |
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| Radicalized by Cory DoctorowWhat it is: a quartet of thought-provoking science fiction novellas by Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, Walkaway).
Includes: "Unauthorized Bread," which pits refugees against their "smart" appliances; "Radicalized," in which domestric terrorists target insurance companies; "The Masque of the Red Death," about doomsday preppers unprepared for an actual apocalypse; and "Model Minority," in which superheroes fail in the face of a racist criminal justice system.
Why you might like it: each story examines the intersection of technology, politics, and social issues as it envisions a plausible near-future world. |
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| A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary... by Victor D. LaValle and John Joseph Adams (editors)What you'll find: 25 dystopian and utopian visions of the future by writers of color, LGBTQIA writers, Muslim writers, and other underrepresented voices in speculative fiction.
Includes: stories by Charlie Jane Anders, Omar El-Akkad, N.K. Jemisin, Seanan McGuire, Daniel José Older, and Charles Yu, to name just a few.
For fans of: anthologies such as Octavia's Brood, edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha or New Suns, edited by Nisi Shawl. |
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| Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea: Stories by Sarah PinskerWhat it is: a brain-bending collection of 13 short stories by the author of A Song for a New Day.
Don't miss: the Hugo-nominated "And Then There Were (N-One)," which reads like Agatha Christie meets Being John Malkovich.
Reviewers say: "An auspicious start to what promises to be one wild ride of a literary career" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen; introduction by Marissa MeyerContains: inventive adaptations of classic fairy tales by fantasy author Jane Yolen.
Includes: detailed author's notes describing the origins of the stories, plus original poetry.
Is it for you? Like fairy tales themselves, the stories in this collection vary in tone, from the lighthearted Pied Piper retelling "Green Plague" to the heartbreaking "Granny Rumple," about a Jewish Rumpelstiltskin. |
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