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Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2018
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| Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories by Kelly BarnhillWhat it is: a collection of lush and lyrical short stories for adults by the Newbery Award-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon.
Read it for: "The Unlicensed Magician," which won the 2016 World Fantasy Award for best novella.
For fans of: Kelly Link's offbeat and atmospheric short story collections, such as Magic for Beginners and Stranger Things Happen. |
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| Lake Silence: The World of the Others by Anne BishopIntroducing: Vicki DeVine, a recent divorcée who moves to a village populated by the shapeshifting Others. Vicki's attempts at a fresh start are complicated by a murder investigation, her abusive ex-husband, and her eyeball-eating avian lodger, Aggie Crowe.
Series alert: Set in the world of the Courtyards of the Others series, Lake Silence is a stand-alone story that introduces a brand new cast of characters.
What about...? Fan favorites Meg Corbyn and Simon Wolfgard? Alas, they're not in this book. |
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| Blood of the Four by Christopher Golden and Tim LebbonWhat it's about: The Kingdom of Quandis. Founded by powerful gods, ruled by corrupt royals, and sustained by slave labor, it's a society teetering on the brink of civil war.
Why you might like it: With its detailed world-building and large cast of characters, Blood of the Four packs all of the drama and scope of a multi-volume epic fantasy saga into one stand-alone novel.
Reviewers say: Booklist promises that "the mayhem is epic." |
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| Artemis Awakening by Jane LindskoldWhat it's about: Long after an interstellar war wipes Artemis off the map, archaeologist Griffin Dane crashes on the planet's surface. Aided by local woman Adara, Griffin searches for a way home.
Series alert: Artemis Awakening is the 1st book in a series of the same name, which continues with Artemis Invaded.
You might also like: Carolyn Gilman Ives' Dark Orbit, which also features an intrepid explorer whose sojourn on a mysterious planet leads to surprising discoveries. |
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Deepsix
by Jack McDevitt
Planetary explorer and alien archaeologist Priscilla Hutchins investigates reports of sentient life on a doomed planet called Deepsix and soon finds herself on a rescue mission to the planet fated to be destroyed by a collision with a rogue moon.
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Admiral
by Sean Danker
Awakened from his sleeper pod as an Admiral of the Evagardian Empire, a soldier must keep his trainees alive when they are marooned on a strange world where their ship's systems are failing one by one--and they are not alone.
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Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
Having lived in a monastery since childhood away from the violent upheavals of the outside world, Raz becomes one of a group of formerly cloistered scholars who are appointed by a fear-driven higher power to avert an impending catastrophe. By the author of Cryptonomicon.
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The Martian: A Novel
by Andy Weir
Near-Future SF. Stranded on Mars after an aborted surface mission, astronaut Mark Watney must rely on his wits to survive on an inhospitable planet. As Watney documents his attempts to create food, water, and oxygen from limited resources, NASA officials work to increase his chances of survival until they can find a way to bring him back to Earth. Fans of hard science fiction and survival stories will appreciate this debut novel for its smart, likable lead who uses humor and technological ingenuity to make an impossible situation bearable.
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