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The Harp of Kings

Juliet Marillier · Ace
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

A young woman is both a bard--and a warrior--in this thrilling historical fantasy from the author of the Sevenwaters novels.

Eighteen-year-old Liobhan is a powerful singer and an expert whistle player. Her brother has a voice to melt the hardest heart, and is a rare talent on the harp....
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Red Moon

Kim Stanley Robinson · Orbit
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Red Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson.
It is thirty years from now, and we have colonized the moon.
American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install...
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10,000 Bones

Joe Ollinger · Diversion Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

On the planet Brink, calcium is cash. The element's scarcity led the world's government to declare it the official currency. In the decades since, the governments of other colonized worlds have suppressed shipments of calcium in order to maintain favorable exchange rates, while Brink's...
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Year of the Orphan: A Novel

Daniel Findlay · Arcade
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The Road meets Mad Max in this stunning debut - also for fans of Station 11, The Passage, and Riddley Walker.In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the desert, holding her treasures...
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The Cruel Stars: A Novel

John Birmingham · Del Rey
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

In this epic sci-fi adventure for fans of The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica, five intrepid heroes must unite to save civilization after a long-dormant enemy awakens and strikes a devastating blow

"This jarring, engrossing story of a species-wide fight for survival...
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The Poppy War: A Novel

R. F. Kuang · Harper Voyager
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

A "Best of May" Science Fiction and Fantasy pick by Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Audible, The Verge, SyFy Wire, and Kirkus

"I have no doubt this will end up being the best fantasy debut of the year [...] I have absolutely no doubt that [Kuang's] name will be up there...

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An Illusion of Thieves

Cate Glass · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A ragtag crew with forbidden magic must pull off an elaborate heist and stop a civil war in An Illusion of Thieves, a fantasy adventure from Cate Glass.

In Cantagna, being a sorcerer is a death sentence.

Romy escapes her hardscrabble upbringing when she becomes courtesan...

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This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar · Gallery / Saga Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters - and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant...
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