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Fantasy and Science Fiction March 2020
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The grace of kings
by Ken Liu
What it's about: Becoming the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, a bandit and a duke's son become the rival leaders of separate factions with very different ideas about justice and politics.
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The Vanished Birds
by Simon Jimenez
What it's about: Captain Nia Imani guards a child who crash-lands on the colony world of Umbai-V, a mission that links her to aerospace engineer Fumiko Nakajima, creator of the space stations that have allowed humanity to spread across the galaxy.
Why you might like it: Spanning a thousand years and multiple shifts in perspective, this haunting debut employs space opera tropes to explore the complexity of human relationships.
For fans of: Ursula K. Le Guin's A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.
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| Upright Women Wanted by Sarah GaileyWhat it is: a pulp SF Western set in alternate-timeline dystopian American Southwest and featuring an LGBTQIA cast.
What happens: After her best friend (and secret lover) Beatriz is executed for possession of Unapproved Materials, Esther Augustus seeks to hide in plain sight by joining the Librarians, who pose as "Morally Upright Women" while distributing seditious literature.
Reviewers say: "a feat of writerly sorcery that packs a sweeping political epic into fewer than 200 pages" (Booklist). |
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Gunpowder & embers
by John Ringo
What happens: Decades after technology and nearly all life are wiped out by alien invaders, a rancher joins a motley team including a mystic warrior monk, a dragon tamer and a runaway cultist to reclaim humanity’s past and future.
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Riot Baby
by Tochi Onyebuchi
What it's about: Siblings Ella and Kev Jackson possess supernatural powers that, so far, have failed to protect them from the brutal consequences of being Black in America. But now Ella is plotting a revolution...
About the author: Tochi Onyebuchi is well known to YA readers as the author of Beasts Made of Night and its sequel, Crown of Thunder.
For fans of: Ayize Jama-Everett's The Liminal People.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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