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Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2024
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
by Katherine Arden
Upon receiving a message during a séance that her missing soldier brother Freddie is still alive, former army nurse Laura Iven travels from Nova Scotia to Belgium to find him. Parallel narratives follow the siblings' separate quests in this richly detailed, heavily atmospheric World War I-set historical fantasy novel by the author of the Winternight trilogy. Read-alikes: Mary Robinette Kowal's Ghost Talkers; Luanne G. Smith's The Witch's Lens.
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| A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. JensenMarked by the gods, Freya accepts her destiny as a shield maiden after she's sold to Jarl Snorri, who plans to use her power to increase his own and appoints his brooding son Bjorn to be her bodyguard. Inspired by Norse mythology, this steamy series opener boasts action-packed battles and angsty forbidden love. You might also like: Lilith Saintcrow's Black Land's Bane series; Aurora Ascher's Sanctuary of the Shadow; Elizabeth Bear's Edda of Burdens trilogy. |
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| The Mars House by Natasha PulleySet in the far-future Martian colony of Tharsis, this "exquisitely layered and entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) novel by Natasha Pulley (The Half Life of Valery K) explores the often fraught marriage of convenience between anti-immigrant politician Aubrey Gale and dancer January Stirling, a refugee from Earth. Read-alikes: R.W.W. Greene's The Light Years; Derek Kunsken's Venus Ascendant series. |
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Those Beyond the Wall
by Micaiah Johnson
When mutilated bodies turn up, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause—a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen—and it could spell doom for the enter world.
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
by Shannon Chakraborty
Retired pirate and single mother Amina al-Sirafi reluctantly agrees to search for the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy woman with ties to Amina's past. Amina rounds up the remaining members of her old crew and embarks on a rescue mission -- but, of course, there's more to the job than she's been told.
Series alert: This swashbuckling novel by the author of the Daevabad trilogy is the 1st book in a planned trilogy that draws inspiration from the seafaring cultures of the 12th-century Indian Ocean.
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Exit Black
by Joe Pitkin
Once an orbiting laboratory, Imperium is now a space hotel for the fantastically wealthy. But as the station preps for its first group of space tourists, Dr. Chloe Bonilla, Imperium's resident biophysicist, finds herself questioning whether babysitting a passel of space glampers is worth the distraction from her research. However, posing among the staff are members of a global terrorist group who call themselves the Reckoners, hell bent on upending the economic inequality of twenty-first-century Earth--and they have a bone to pick with the scions of the 1 percent. As the Reckoners take control of Imperium and demand an $8 billion ransom from their wealthy hostages, it's up to Dr. Bonilla to save them, and fast. Or the captives will be forced to exit the station--and there's only one way out.
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The Sunlit Man
by Brandon Sanderson
Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.
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