April 2017 list by Holly Whistler
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| Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav KalfarChosen for his country's first space mission, Czech astrophysicist Jakub Procházka views the opportunity as a chance to redeem his family's reputation (his father tortured dissidents as part of the previous Communist regime). Jakub boards the JanHus1 and, en route to his destination (a cosmic dust cloud known as Chopra), begins to question his life choices. |
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Star's End
by Cassandra Rose Clarke
After taking over the family business, Esme discovers the company’s sinister work with alien DNA and betrayal that estranged her sisters from their father in this new novel from the author of Our Lady of the Ice.
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Six Wakes
by Mur Lafferty
The crew of the spaceship Dormire wakes up in cloning vats, covered in blood and surrounded by the corpses of their previous bodies. In this world, the "mindmaps" of the deceased can be downloaded into new clone bodies. But that doesn't mean homicide isn't a serious crime. Now the six must catch a killer (who could be any of them!) as they contend with a malfunctioning ship, an offline AI navigational system, and their own missing memories.
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Empire Games
by Charles Stross
A tale set in an alternate world of the immediate future follows the efforts of the head of a paratime espionage agency to prepare for an upcoming drone war at the same time her estranged spy daughter attempts to protect national security during an ominous succession crisis.
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Chasing Shadows
by Tom Delonge
The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, people who looked up and saw something impossible lighting up the night sky. What those objects were, where they came from, and who—or what—might be inside them is the subject of fierce debate and equally fierce mockery, so that most who glimpsed them came to wish they hadn’t. Most, but not everyone.
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Martians Abroad
by Carrie Vaughn
Fearing her dream of becoming a galaxy-traveling starship pilot will never come true when she is sent to Earth's Galileo Academy, Polly teams up with her popular brother to investigate dangerous coincidences centered on their high-profile classmates. By the author of the Kitty Norville series.
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Resident Evil: the Final chapter: The Official Movie Novelization
by Tim Waggoner
Betrayed by Wesker in Washington, D.C., Alice, the only survivor in what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead hordes, returns to Raccoon City where she joins forces with old friends and an unlikely ally to stop the Umbrella Corporation from gathering its forces for a final strike.
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The Burning Page
by Genevieve Cogman
Placed on probation for her role in a dispute between the dragons and the fae, Librarian spy Irene, assisted by her dragon prince apprentice, are confronted by longtime nemesis Alberich, who would destroy the entire Library.
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