Science Fiction & Fantasy: November 2019
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Aurora Blazing
by Jessie Mihalik

Princess Bianca von Hasenberg, who secretly uses her wealth and influence to save women stuck in dire circumstances, defies her father and leaves Earth to find her missing brother with her first love – and her father’s security officer – fast on her tail. 
Boundless
by R. A. Salvatore

Restored to life centuries after his death, Zaknafein, the father of Drizzt, struggles to adapt to a world where different races and genders are accepted, before dark forces compel him to reclaim his warrior heritage. 
Gideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir

Raised in a hostile undead world where she would escape servitude and a zombie afterlife, a lesbian necromancer becomes a bodyguard to an emperor to secure her freedom in a solar system of swordplay and cutthroat politics. 
Hex Life: wicked new tales of witchery
by Christopher Golden

Eighteen tales of witchcraft from the mistresses of magic! Featuring brand-new stories written by popular female fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon. These are tales of witches, wickedness, evil and cunning. Stories of disruption and subversion by today’s women you should fear. These witches might be monstrous, or they might be heroes, depending on their own definitions!
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse
by K. Eason

Princess Rory Thorne must use the fairy blessings gifted to her at birth to change the multiverse--or possibly destroy it. How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairytale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination--how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.
The Library of the Unwritten
by A. J. Hackwith

Assigned to watch the restless characters of books left unfinished by their authors, a head librarian of Hell’s neutral Unwritten Wing tracks an escaped Hero before an angel attack reveals the existence of a powerful literary weapon. 
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E Butler

In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.
The True Bastards
by Jonathan French

Fetching—the female leader of her own hoof, a loyal group of orcs sworn to her—fights off famine, desertions, other orcs and humans who are plotting against her, in the second novel of the series following The Grey Bastards.
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