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WINNER A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady MartineA space-opera sequel to the Hugo Award-winning A Memory Called Empire finds desperate Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus attempting diplomacy with the mysterious and hostile alien armada on the edge of Teixcalaanli space. |
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FINALISTS The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky ChambersWhen a freak technological failure strands travelers at the Five-Hop One-Stop on the planet Gora, three alien strangers get to know each other in the fourth novel of the Wayfarers series following Record of a Spaceborn Few. |
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Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka AokiTo reclaim her damned soul, a gifted, but cursed violinist must take on seven students and try to entice each to trade their soul for fame while a starship captain races to stop the end of existence.
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A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlà ClarkIn 1912 Cairo, a new world where the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities maintains an uneasy peace, the Ministry's youngest agent, Fatima, must stop an imposter who threatens to tear apart the very fabric of this new Egyptian society.
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Project Hail Maryby Andy WeirThe sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space where he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-ChanWhen the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongban, given the fate of greatness, dies during a brutal attack, his sister, escaping her own fated death, uses her brother’s identity to claim another future altogether—her brother’s abandoned greatness.
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Network Effect by Martha WellsWhen Murderbot’s human associates are captured and need its help, it must choose between inertia and drastic action, in this first, full-length standalone novel about a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction. |
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FINALISTS Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeLiving in a labyrinthine house of endless corridors, flooded staircases and thousands of statues, Piranesi assists the dreamlike dwelling’s only other resident throughout a mysterious research project before evidence emerges of an astonishing alternate world. |
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The City We Became by N. K. JemisinThis first book of an exciting new series by a Hugo Award-winning author takes readers into the dark underbelly of New York City, where a roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars.
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The Relentless Moon
by Mary Robinette Kowal
When political divides, riots and sabotage compromise the Earth’s response to the Meteor strike, Elma departs for a fledgling Mars colony before the challenges of interplanetary pioneer life are further complicated by her husband’s presidential campaign.
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Harrow the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
A sequel to the best-selling
Gideon the Ninth
continues the story of Harrowhark Nonagesimus, whose failing health and uncooperative magic are complicated by the schemes of a would-be assassin in the twisted halls of the Emperor.
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Black Sun
by Rebecca Roanhorse
A trilogy debut by the Nebula Award-winning author of
Star Wars: Resistance Reborn
is inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and follows the unbalancing of the holy city of Tova amid a fateful solstice eclipse.
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A Memory Called Empire
by Arkady Martine
Taking over for an ambassador who died a suspicious death, Mahit Dzmare investigates the potential murder while navigating the alien culture of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire, which is hiding a technological secret that could impact the universe.
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The City in the Middle of the Night
by Charlie Jane Anders
A reluctant revolutionary survives exile by forging an unusual, world-changing bond with a family of ice creatures that live outside the human confines of their dying planet. By the Nebula Award-winning author of
All the Birds in the Sky
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
by Alix E. Harrow
A woman navigating the out-of-place artifacts in her caretaker’s sprawling early 20th-century mansion discovers a mysterious book that reveals impossible truths about the world and her own past.
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The Light Brigade
by Kameron Hurley
To fight a war on Mars, soldiers are broken down into particles of light, but those who survive are experiencing an alarming type of combat madness in the new novel from the author of
The Stars Are Legion.
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Middlegame
by Seanan McGuire
In an alternate-reality world under the shadow of a magical government bent on transmuting the fabric of reality, two alchemical twins, one skilled with language and the other with math, become catalysts in their creator's grab for power.
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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. A first novel.
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The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process.
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Record of a Spaceborn Few
by Becky Chambers
A young apprentice, an alien academic, a caretaker for the dead, an archivist and others wrestle with profound questions after their evacuation ship, carrying the last humans on Earth, finally reaches its destination.
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Revenant Gun
by Yoon Ha Lee
After cadet Shuos Jedao awakes, he is in the body of a general, his older self, and must deal with the consequences of the evil actions carried out by him as the general, as he and hexarch Nirai Kujen are being hunted by an enemy bent on revenge
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Space Opera
by Catherynne M. Valente
The fate of humankind and the Earth hang in the balance as species compete for glory in a galaxy-wide musical contest rife with glitter, lipstick, and electric guitars where they must sing to survive.
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Spinning Silver
by Naomi Novik
Deciding to collect on the outstanding debts owed her family of moneylenders, a young woman is overheard boasting about being able to turn silver into gold by the creatures who haunt the wood, in this reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin story.
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Trail of Lightning
by Rebecca Roanhorse
When a small town needs her help in finding a missing girl, Maggie Hoskie, a Dinetah monster hunter and supernaturally gifted killer, reluctantly enlists the help of an unconventional medicine man to uncover the terrifying truth behind the disappearance—and her own past.
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