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Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2020
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Upright Women Wanted
by Sarah Gailey
What 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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Steel City, Veiled Kingdom
by Danielle Williams
Brilliant scientist Jerimin Icarii is breaking back into polite society—and making enemies at every turn. Playing nice with others was never his strong suit. Good thing he has the Queen on his side. Juggling his double life would be impossible without her powers—and her camaraderie. But a deal's a deal. She's held up her end of the bargain—now he must hold up his. No matter how strange...or dark...or dangerous her demands...
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The City We Became
by N.K. Jemisin
Starring: New York City, its five human avatars, and the Lovecraftian evil that threatens them all.
Author alert: After winning multiple awards for her Broken Earth trilogy, N.K. Jemisin launches a new series that expands on her novella, The City Born Great (found in How Long 'Til Black Future Month).
For fans of: Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Daniel Jose Older's Bone Street Rumba series, or Bryan Campbell's Crescent City novels.
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| Spinning Silver by Naomi NovikWhat it is: a mash-up of "Rumpelstiltskin" and Russian fairy tales by the author of Uprooted.
Starring: moneylender's daughter Miryam, whose success in turning silver into gold attracts the attention of the icy Staryk, a race of otherworldly creatures.
You might also like: Katherine Arden's Winternight trilogy, beginning with The Bear and the Nightingale. |
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The Tiger's Wife
by Téa Obreht
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man, would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
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After Alice
by Gregory Maguire
A tale inspired by Lewis Carroll's beloved classic follows the experiences of Alice's friend, Ada, who, upon tumbling down the same rabbit hole, embarks on an odyssey to find and reclaim her friend from a surreal world.
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Alice in Zombieland
by Gena Showalter
When her entire existence is shattered in the blink of an eye, Ali is forced to partner with secretive bad boy Cole Holland to avenge the deaths of her loved ones by returning an undead army to their graves.
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iDrakula
by Bekka Black
Eighteen-year-old Jonathan Harker, his girlfriend Mina, and a pre-med student named Van Helsing team up to investigate the source of Jonathan's rare blood disease, in a modern version of Bram Stoker's "Dracula."
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