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No Man's Land by A.J. FitzwaterChristchurch author! No Man's Land is a historical fantasy and a love story set in the golden plains of North Otago, in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Dorothea 'Tea' Gray joins the Land Service and is sent to work on a remote farm, one of many young women who filled the empty shoes left by fathers and brothers serving in the Second World War. But Tea finds more than hard work and hot sun in the dusty North Otago nowhere-she finds a magic inside herself she never could have imagined, a way to save her brother in a distant land she never thought she could reach, and a love she never knew existed. Inspired by feminist and LGBTQ+ history and family wartime memories, AJ Fitzwater has turned a piece of forgotten women's history into a tapestry of furious pride and love that crosses cultures, countries and decades.
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Resurgence : a Foreigner novel
by C. J. Cherryh
Diplomat Bren Cameron navigates a tenuous peace agreement between human refugees and the alien atevi when the dowager Ilisidi risks innumerable lives to launch a violent attack against the southern rebels.
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Daughter from the dark by Marina DiachenkoImpulsively taking in a 10-year-old music prodigy whose life he believes is in danger, a talented DJ finds himself embroiled in an increasingly violent game of cat-and-mouse that makes him question the child’s true identity.
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The case of the spellbound child
by Mercedes Lackey
Tasked to investigate rumors of evil magic in Dartmoor, the Watsons and their companions are approached by a poor cottager whose children have gone missing in the region’s deadly bogs. By the best-selling author of the Heralds of Valdemar series.
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| Goldilocks by Laura LamWelcome to: Cavendish, a habitable exoplanet ten light-years from Earth, where a crew of women astronauts known as the Atalanta 5 go after stealing a spaceship from NASA.
Why you might like it: This character-driven hard SF novel by the author of False Hearts delves into both the technical challenges and ethical dilemmas of space colonization.
For fans of: Emma Newman's Planetfall novels; Mary Robinette Kowal's Lady Astronaut series; Becky Chambers' To Be Taught, If Fortunate. |
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Forced perspectives
by Tim Powers
Pursued by a Silicon Valley guru who is determined to incorporate their souls into the creation of a new and predatory World God, fugitives Vickery and Castine are plunged into the supernatural underworld of Los Angeles.
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| Network Effect by Martha WellsStarring: Murderbot, the sardonic, antisocial SecUnit that just wants to be left alone to binge-watch shows while doing a bare minimum of work.
What happens: Once again, Murderbot's human associates need saving, which means doing a thing. As opposed to NOT doing a thing (Murderbot's preference).
Series alert: Although this 5th installment of the Murderbot Diaries can be enjoyed on its own, starting at the beginning (with All Systems Red) provides important context. |
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The Gatherer
by Colleen Winter
Storm Freeman gave the world a miracle. She designed The Gatherer to draw electromagnetic energy from the air and disperse free and infinite electricity to rural and underprivileged communities. Her invention helped people but devalued power industries. Some revered Storm as a deity. Others saw her as an eco-terrorist. Then the miracle became a curse.
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Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women
by Sharon Blackie
Written by Sharon Blackie, these twelve, beautifully written stories are original for modern readers, but based on existing folklore and fairy tales. They all focus on women who have the ability to transform themselves, or who have been transformed or enchanted who have the ability to shape-shift, to renew themselves, to cross over from one element to another from land to water, this world and the Otherworld, woman-kind to wild creature. Blackie, a writer, psychologist and mythologist, is known for her personal development books If Women Rose Rooted and The Enchanted Life. In Foxfire, she uses myth, folklore and fairy tales from British and Northern European traditions to build upon her radical eco-feminist message.
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| Exhalation: Stories by Ted ChiangWhat it is: the long-awaited 2nd short story collection by the author of Stories of Your Life and Others.
Don't miss: "The Life Cycle of Software Objects," in which humans and machines form parent-child bonds; "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a time travel tale in the style of One Thousand and One Nights.
Reviewers say: "likely to linger in the memory the way riddles may linger -- teasing, tormenting, illuminating, thrilling" (The New Yorker). |
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| Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu (editor)What it is: a collection of award-winning short stories by Chinese speculative fiction writers, most translated into English for the first time.
What sets it apart: In addition to brief author profiles accompanying each of the 13 stories, Invisible Planets includes three essays on various aspects of Chinese science fiction.
Read this next: editor and translator Ken Liu's follow-up anthology Broken Stars. |
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Of Cats and Elfins : Short Tales and Fantasies
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The 23 stories in Of Cats and Elfins encompass scholarship, black humour, the Gothic, and the anthropomorphic cats of The Cat's Cradle Book (1940), which enact Warner's preoccupation with the dark forces at large in Europe in the later 1930s. This is a major fantasy collection for a new generation of fantasy enthusiasts and Warner fans.
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Wonderland : an anthology of works inspired by Alice's adventures in Wonderland
by Marie O'Regan
An anthology of stories inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from the greatest names in fantasy and horror. Join Alice as she is thrown into the whirlwind in a collection that bends the traditional notions of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel. Contributors include the best-selling M.R. Carey, Genevieve Cogman, Catriona Ward, Rio Youers and L.L. McKinney. Original.
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