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S for Solidarity: Revolutionary Poetics in NO GODS, NO MONSTERS
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S for Solidarity: Revolutionary Poetics in NO GODS, NO MONSTERS
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Cadwell Turnbull's new novel — the first in a trilogy — imagines the hard, uncertain work of a fantastical justice.

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The Empire of Gold - Djinn Kingdom of Daevabad Falls then Rises
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The Empire of Gold - Djinn Kingdom of Daevabad Falls then Rises
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In this final novel of The Daevabad Trilogy, Ali, Nahri, and Dara are morally challenged beyond endurance by the rise of death magic in their beloved kingdom. How they respond changes everything.

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A Spectral Revhue: Review of Craig Laurance Gidney’s Novel
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A Spectral Revhue: Review of Craig Laurance Gidney’s Novel
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Craig Laurance Gidney’s Marsh-bell Queen is half muse, half greedy ghost, and all fascinating.

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The Interrogation of Reality: Aimee Bender’s "The Butterfly Lampshade"
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The Interrogation of Reality: Aimee Bender’s "The Butterfly Lampshade"
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Butterfly Lampshade is Aimee Bender’s first novel in a decade and the follow-up book to her incredible short story collection The Color Master (2013). A book about memory and isolation that we didn’t know we needed.

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“Architects of Memory” by Karen Osborne: Don’t Let the Corporations Grind You Down
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“Architects of Memory” by Karen Osborne: Don’t Let the Corporations Grind You Down
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Karen Osborne’s debut is part sci-fi adventure, part love story, and 100% critical of unfettered corporate capitalism.

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"Every Bone a Prayer" by Ashley Blooms: A Review
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"Every Bone a Prayer" by Ashley Blooms: A Review
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Every Bone a Prayer, the impressive debut novel by Ashley Blooms, is an expressionistic To Kill a Mockingbird of personal trauma.

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"The Glass Hotel" by Emily St. John Mandel: A Review
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"The Glass Hotel" by Emily St. John Mandel: A Review
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The new novel from the author of Station Eleven is eerily relevant, and it’s not even about a pandemic this time.

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The Book of Dragons: Dragons of all Creeds, Temperaments and Worlds
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The Book of Dragons: Dragons of all Creeds, Temperaments and Worlds
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A diverse collection of sci fi and fantasy stories and poems about Western and Eastern dragons and their relationships with families and humans, blood and gold.

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"Engines Beneath Us" by Malcom Devlin: A Review
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"Engines Beneath Us" by Malcom Devlin: A Review
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Looking for your next read? Check out Malcom Devlin’s Engines Beneath Us available now from TTA Press.

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“Network Effect”: Self-Determination Is a Pain in the Ass
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“Network Effect”: Self-Determination Is a Pain in the Ass
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Volume five of The Murderbot Diaries, reviewed.

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"Thin Places" by Kay Chronister: A Review
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"Thin Places" by Kay Chronister: A Review
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You won’t want to miss this haunting debut collection. Thin Places by Kay Chronister available now from Undertow Publications.

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The Author of “Cat Person”: Kristen Roupenian’s First Collection
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The Author of “Cat Person”: Kristen Roupenian’s First Collection
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Guest contributor M. Shaw reviews Roupenian’s studies in feminist horror.

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"The Word Want Is So Embarrassing": Georgina Bruce's “Honeybones," Reviewed
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"The Word Want Is So Embarrassing": Georgina Bruce's “Honeybones," Reviewed
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Reading something dark and fantastic is great for enduring a pandemic.

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William Gibson’s “Agency”: Cooperate or Die
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William Gibson’s “Agency”: Cooperate or Die
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What does it mean to have agency when we find ourselves at the mercy of events utterly beyond our control?

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Many Världs Theory: A Multiverse Romp through Consumer Retail
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Many Världs Theory: A Multiverse Romp through Consumer Retail
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Nino Cipri’s novella FINNA, reviewed.

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Avian Horror in Clare Beams's "The Illness Lesson"
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Avian Horror in Clare Beams's "The Illness Lesson"
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Flocks of red birds haunt a school where girls are shaped by the desires of others. Clare Beams examines the creeping horror of growing up female.

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The Power of Place in Leigh Bardugo's "Ninth House"
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The Power of Place in Leigh Bardugo's "Ninth House"
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In Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House the unlikely place of New Haven, Connecticut is one of the world’s centers of magical power.

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For Those Who Dream of Fire: “Riot Baby” by Tochi Onyebuchi, Reviewed
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For Those Who Dream of Fire: “Riot Baby” by Tochi Onyebuchi, Reviewed
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/577066/gods-of-jade-and-shadow-by-silvia-moreno-garcia/
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"The Gods of Jade and Shadow": A Heroine's Journey into the Mayan Underworld of Xibalba
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A welcome entry into the non-Western fantasy field set in the ancient Mayan underworld, Xibalba, and the Mexican Jazz Age.

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A Good Discussion: Fiction Unbound Editors Talk Connections Between "The Good Place" and "Good Omens"
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A Good Discussion: Fiction Unbound Editors Talk Connections Between "The Good Place" and "Good Omens"
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The Fiction Unbound editors discuss connections and similarities between The Good Place and Good Omens. Meta observations about storytelling and what makes us human ensue.

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"Wonderland": Inspired by Alice's Adventures
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"Wonderland": Inspired by Alice's Adventures
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If you love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland you won’t want to miss this anthology, a collection of seventeen original works that will make you reexamine your own relationship to Wonderland.

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The Written Word as Superpower in "The Ten Thousand Doors of January"
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The Written Word as Superpower in "The Ten Thousand Doors of January"
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In Hugo Award-winner Alix E. Harrow’s debut novel, ordinary doors open to ordinary spaces and capital D Doors open to other worlds.

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Dream House as Rave Review
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Dream House as Rave Review
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Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-bending memoir is a formally dazzling and emotionally acute testimony of an abusive queer relationship.

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"Made Things": Puppets and Puppetmasters, Seeking the Spark of Life
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"Made Things": Puppets and Puppetmasters, Seeking the Spark of Life
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The world of Fountains Parish is a delightfully dark steampunk fantasy, where making friends takes on every shade of meaning. Homunculi, golem, AI, human—the difference between the spark of life that comes by way of magic and the one that comes from nature might not be as big as you think.

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"Homesick" by Nino Cipri: The Thing With Feathers
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"Homesick" by Nino Cipri: The Thing With Feathers
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Nino Cipri’s short story collection, Homesick, explores the impact of the things that haunt us and how, most often, that thing is the true self we most wish to deny.

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"The Dragon Republic" - An Atypical Heroine's Journey in War-Torn China
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"The Dragon Republic" - An Atypical Heroine's Journey in War-Torn China
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The difficult details about real traumas China suffered in the early 20th century make this widely-praised trilogy uniquely interesting. The unusual fantasy elements and atypical heroine’s journey are bonuses.

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Pryia Sharma's "Ormeshadow": A Review
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Pryia Sharma's "Ormeshadow": A Review
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You won’t want to miss the latest from Priya Sharma. Ormeshadow is a quick read that packs an emotional punch.

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Book Review: Catherynne M. Valente's "Space Opera" is Manic Fun for Sci-Fi Lovers
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Book Review: Catherynne M. Valente's "Space Opera" is Manic Fun for Sci-Fi Lovers
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Finalist for 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, Catherynne M. Valente’s Space Opera is well worth checking out. Fiction Unbound dives into this science fiction story about an intergalactic Eurovision contest that will determine the fate of humanity.

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Punk for a New Day
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Punk for a New Day
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Sarah Pinsker’s debut novel sings the joys of connection and the discontent of sticking it to the Man.

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"All The Things We Never See" by Michael Kelly: A Review
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"All The Things We Never See" by Michael Kelly: A Review
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Don’t miss this latest release from Undertow Publications: All The Things We Never See by Michael Kelly. It will have you itching to create, which will be a good use of the time you used to spend sleeping.

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