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Fog & Fireflies

by Isabella Zhou

In the eerie, suspenseful fantasy novel Fog & Fireflies, a brave girl confronts a relentless and mysterious force. The world is encased in fog that births dangerous phantoms and false voices and that spirits away anything that falls... Read More

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Juno's Song

by Ben Linder

In the spirited novel Juno’s Song, a writer awaiting an alien arrival overcomes his fear of death. Electrified and soulful, Michael Kelley’s novel Juno’s Song includes Buddhist meditations on death amid possible extraterrestrial... Read More

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Man's World

by Kristen Rabe

A timely reissue of Charlotte Haldane’s brilliant 1926 dystopian novel, Man’s World is set in a future where individual desires are sacrificed for communal good, women’s roles are prescribed, and genetic makeup is determined by... Read More

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The Wings Upon Her Back

by Kristen Rabe

After a long career as a warrior, a determined woman questions her sacrifices and unwavering obedience to a charismatic leader in "The Wings Upon Her Back", Samantha Mills’s thrilling fantasy debut. Zenya’s community is organized... Read More

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This Tenuous Atmosphere

by Kristen Rabe

Poetic, inventive, and spare, Maria S. Picone’s "This Tenuous Atmosphere" is a meticulous novella about a woman’s search for family and belonging. Asia feels like an outsider in her fantastical outer-space world. Orbiting Earth among... Read More

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Chicano Frankenstein

by Kristen Rabe

In Daniel A. Olivas’s wry, entertaining novel inspired by the Mary Shelley classic, a “reanimated” man in near-future Los Angeles searches for love and identity while contending with bigotry and an uncertain past. Herein,... Read More

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Cupid’s Arrow

by Cierra Taylor

Its truths shrouded in mystery and folklore, "Cupid’s Arrow" covers a fantastical expedition gone awry. David Peter Rosenfeld’s science fiction novel "Cupid’s Arrow" takes fearless flight but grounds itself in the innate need to... Read More

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