May 2019 list by Bonnie Bradford
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Breach
by Eliot Peper
When you’ve betrayed your revolutionary cadre, an off-grid fight club is a good place to hide—or die. When notorious ex-hacker Emily Kim discovers her old friends are being targeted, her quest for redemption spirals into an all-out shadow war. What constitutes justice in a world run by algorithms? Analog series.
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A Chain Across the Dawn
by Drew Williams
Together Esa and fellow agent Jane Kamali have been traveling the universe, searching for others with supernatural gifts. But they’re not the only ones--there is a mysterious being with impossible powers who will stop at nothing to get his hands on the very children that Esa and Jane are trying to save. The Universe After series.
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Conventions of War
by Walter Jon Williams
Working on opposite sides of the galaxy, Captain Gareth Martinez and Lieutenant Lady Caroline Sula fight to save the Empire from the vicious, alien Naxid. In a desperate, audacious bid to stop the Naxid, Martinez and Sula use tactics and moves that could win the war...or lose their careers. Dread Empire's Fall series
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Electric Forest
by Tanith Lee
In the futuristic world of Indigo, reproduction is controlled by the government, guaranteeing that every baby is happy, healthy, and beautiful. But mistakes happen, and a rare few babies are accidentally born biologically, like Magdala Cled.
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Empire of Grass
by Tad Williams
The kingdoms of Osten Ard have been at peace for decades, but now, the threat of a new war grows to nightmarish proportions. But as the kingdoms of Osten Ard are torn apart by fear and greed, a few individuals will fight for their own lives and destinies—not yet aware that the survival of everything depends on them. Last King of Osten Ard series.
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The Gameshouse
by Claire North
Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets... Those winners fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league... a league where the games played are of politics and empires, of economies and living kings. And three unusually talented contestants are playing for the highest stakes of all...
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Gather the Fortunes
by Bryan Camp
Establishing herself among the guides who lead the souls of the dead through the Seven Gates of the Underworld, Renaissance Raines lands at the center of a deity plot involving a boy's escape of his foretold death. Crescent City series.
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Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
by Vylar Kaftan
All Bee has ever known is darkness. She doesn’t remember the crime she committed that landed her on the prison planet Colel-Cab with only fellow prisoner Chela for company. Chela says that they’re telepaths and mass-murderers; that they belong here, too dangerous to ever be free. Then Bee hears the voice of another telepath, one who has answers, and an entirely different truth.
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An Illusion of Thieves
by Cate Glass
To spare her brother's life, Romy is banished back to Beggar’s Ring, living on just her wits and her own long-hidden sorcery to help her and Neri survive. But when a plot to overthrow the Shadow Lord and incite civil war is uncovered, only Romy knows how to stop it. And they'll need the very thing that could condemn them all: magic. Chimera series.
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Last Tango in Cyberspace
by Steven Kotler
Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind―an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future. It’s a useful skill really. Then on a routine em-tracking job leads to a gruesome murder, Lion finds himself neck-deep in a world of eco-assassins, soul hackers, and consciousness terrorists. But what the man really needs is a nap.
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Middlegame
by Seanan McGuire
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realize it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.
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Million Mile Road Rrip
by Rudy Rucker
When a seemingly-innocent trumpet solo somehow opens a transdimensional connection to Mappyworld, three California teens find themselves taken on a million mile road trip across a landscape of alien civilizations in a beat-up, purple 80s wagon. Their goal? To stop carnivorous flying saucers from invading Earth. And, just maybe, to find love along the way.
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Mythic Journeys: Myths and Legends Retold
by multiple authors
This new anthology compiles some of the best modern short mythic retellings and reinvention of legend from award-winning and bestselling authors, acclaimed storytellers, and exciting new talent, offering readers new ways to interpret and understand the world. Adventure with us on these Mythic Journeys.
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Noir Fatale
by multiple authors
New science fiction, urban fantasy, and mystery stories with a noir theme from best-selling authors Laurell K. Hamilton, Larry Correia, David Weber, and more.
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Queenslayer
by Sebastien De Castell
Kellen Argos may not be The Chosen One, but that doesn't mean he can't be a hero. Spellslinger series.
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The Red-Stained Wings
by Elizabeth Bear
The Gage and the Dead Man brought a message from the greatest wizard of Messaline to the ruling queen of Sarathai, one of the Lotus Kingdoms. But the message was a riddle, and the Lotus Kingdoms are at war. Lotus Kingdoms series.
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Starship Repo
by Patrick S. Tomlinson
Firstname Lastname is a no one with nowhere to go--destined to be one of the only humans on an alien space station. That is until she sneaks aboard a ship and joins up with a crew of repomen (they are definitely not pirates). Now she's traveling the galaxy "recovering" ships. What could go wrong?
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Triumphant
by Jack Campbell
A young fleet officer and a Marine must stand together to defend their neighbors and their colony. Will the free star systems stand together in a new alliance or fall alone? Genesis Fleet series.
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Vessel
by Lisa A. Nichols
An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster. But is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story… Smart, gripping, and compelling, this page-turning sci-fi thriller will leave you breathless.
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Warrior Prime
by Victor Gischler
Peyne Erlich’s mission from the king is to learn everything he can about the rival kingdom’s magical ink mage warriors. What he finds is Zayda Yond. Zayda dreams only of escape. And Peyne will do anything to help her. Ink Mage Legacy series.
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