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Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of …
For all the danger in that forest with its tumblingdown ruins, the beauty pulled me back one last time.
— Interference by Sue Burke (Semiosis Duology, #2)
When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin—who’s up for …
There were not so many places to lurk in the scholars’ residence on Thanma Street.
— The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #3)
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s …
The portable surgery unit hulked at the edge of a tract field, ringed by four-byfours and a lone Jeep.
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
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Damira followed the blood down the hill.
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones …
There was a vulture on the mailbox of my grandmother’s house.
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created.
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to …
A sentient space station should have perfect temperature, Mallory Viridian thought.
Content warning infant death
Sarah knew Rebecca's babe was dead as soon as the head slid free, from the look on Mistress June's face.
From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions …
Let’s go to the baths today, Miss Ikuko said, so we all got ready.
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a …
The axe cleaved the log in two.
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut …
Each year when Shesheshen hibernated, she dreamed of her childhood nest.
On Nakharat, every contract is a ribbon and every ribbon is a secret, braided tight …
I met the khanym when I tried to kill her.
A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new …
They asked me, “When was the last time you saw Doctor Fell?” and the memory hole I tripped into was ridiculous.
Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms, and …
There was a fly walking on Cordelia’s hand and she was not allowed to flick it away.
So. I’m not in an ideal situation right now.
