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A View from the Stars

Cixin Liu - Tor Books
Format: Book

"We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core. . . . We’re as unassuming...

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo - Flatiron Books
Format: Book

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little...

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The Emperor and the Endless Palace: A Novel

Justinian Huang - MIRA
Format: Book

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?”

In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor—but quickly...

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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

P. Djèlí Clark - Tordotcom
Format: Book

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.

Nor do they have tails.

But they are most assuredly dead.

Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong,...

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Mal Goes to War

Edward Ashton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

The humans are fighting again. Go figure.

As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He’s not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though,...

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Ocean's Godori: A Novel

Elaine U. Cho - Hillman Grad Books
Format: Book

Becky Chambers meets Firefly in this big-hearted Korean space opera debut about a disgraced space pilot struggling to find her place while fighting to protect the people she loves.

Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju...

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Your Utopia: Stories

Bora Chung - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback

From the acclaimed author and translator of the National Book Award Finalist, Cursed Bunny, a fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears—and deepest desires.
 
Bora Chung’s...

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Floating Hotel

Grace Curtis - DAW
Format: Book

This cozy science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery that spans the stars

Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves...

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Rendezvous with Corsair: A Lost Fleet Collection (The Lost Fleet)

Jack Campbell - JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Jack Campbell’s New York Times bestselling The Lost Fleet sci-fi adventure series has transported legions of fans out of this world and into the heat of battle. Now, readers will discover how it all began?not only for John “Black Jack” Geary and his descendant...

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The Longest Autumn: A Novel

Amy Avery - Flatiron Books
Format: Book

Under the right circumstances, would even a god fall?

Tirne is one of four humans rigorously selected to usher the turn of the seasons into the mortal world. Every year, she escorts the taciturn god Autumn between the godly and human realms. Autumn’s seasonal stay...

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Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

Sofia Samatar - Tor.com
Format: Paperback

The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes?literally?when he is yanked “upstairs” and informed he has been given an opportunity to be educated at the ship’s university alongside...

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To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

Molly X. Chang - Del Rey
Format: Book

Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen.

Blessed by Death, born with the ability...

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Dragon Rider: A Novel (The Soulbound Saga, 1)

Taran Matharu - Harper Voyager
Format: Book

Can an orphan captive learn the secrets of the Dragon Riders to stand up and avenge his people?

Jai lives as a royal hostage in the Sabine Court—ever since his father Rohan, leader of the Steppefolk, led a failed rebellion and was executed by the very emperor Jai now serves.

When...

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