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Fantasy and Science Fiction October 2020
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| The Four Profound Weaves: A Birdverse Book by R.B. LembergThis is a free downloadable eBook on CMRLS.Freading.com
Introducing: Uiziya e Lali, a weaver of the nomadic Surun' people, who searches for her exiled aunt Benesret so that she may complete her training in the Four Profound Weaves; and the outcast nameless man who accompanies her in hopes of receiving a name from Benesret.
Read it for: a pair of elderly transgender leads on a quest for mystical knowledge, immersive world-building, and lush, lyrical prose.
Can you start here? Although Nebula award-nominated author R.B. Lemberg has published numerous short stories set in the Birdverse, this stand-alone novel provides newcomers with sufficient context. |
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| Lovecraft Country: A Novel by Matt RuffChicago, 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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| Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeerWhat happens: A biologist, a psychologist, a surveyor, and an anthropologist set out on a scientific expedition to Area X, a quarantined zone that defies all attempts to map its terrain. Eleven previous missions have failed; is the 12th time the charm?
Read it for: the palpable sense of menace that permeates the dreamlike narrative; embedded homages to works of classic SF (such as the Strugatsky Brothers' Roadside Picnic).
Series alert: This Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award winner kicks off the Southern Reach trilogy, followed by Authority and Acceptance. |
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| The Beauty by Aliya WhiteleyWelcome to: The Valley of the Rocks, where a group of men who survived the yellow fungus epidemic that killed all women encounter strange mushroom creatures that resemble their lost loved ones.
Don't miss: the stand-alone bonus short story "Peace, Pipe," which whimsically explores interspecies language barriers.
Book buzz: The Beauty was nominated for both the Shirley Jackson Award and the Saboteur Award. |
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