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Emma Mieko Candon: The Archive Undying (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 stars

War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko …

The Archive Undying

4 stars

The Archive Undying is a kind of postapocalyptic fantasy kaiju novel that (d?)evolves into a philosophical treatise on the nature of the self. It's entertaining and extremely well written, but I got plot twist exhaustion after a while.

Yume Kitasei: The Stardust Grail (2024, Flatiron Books) 4 stars

Save one world. Doom her own.

From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes …

The Stardust Grail

4 stars

A story about friendship, betrayal, and the aftereffects of colonization (in space!) with heists.

The aliens are alien, there's some interesting exploration of wormholes and first contact dynamics, and the action is engaging and unpredictable.

Annalee Newitz: Automatic Noodle (2025, Tor Publishing Group) No rating

From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella …

COVER REVEAL! It's my next book, "Automatic Noodle," a cozy, near-future story about a group of food service bots in an abandoned ghost kitchen who take over their own delivery app account. They rebrand as a neighborhood lunch spot, and start making tasty hand-pulled noodles. Set in San Francisco after a horrible war, this is about rebuilding and finding love after political disaster.

Coming 8.5.25!⁣ Please pre-order! us.macmillan.com/books/9781250357465/automaticnoodle ⁣> Art by Eric Nyquist ⁣ Design by Christine Foltzer

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: Alien Clay (2024, Orbit) 5 stars

Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his …

Alien Clay

5 stars

Another great Tchaikovsky take on the truly alien, this time with added revolutionary fervor. If you like near-to-mid-future scifi rooted in existing social issues and aliens that aren't just humans with weird foreheads, Alien Clay is for you!

Veo Corva: Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew (EBook, 2024, Witch Key Fiction) 5 stars

Luxorian is a dragon without a rider, and that's a problem.

Since ancient times, dragons …

adrienne maree brown, Andrea Ritchie, Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Practicing New Worlds (2023, AK Press) No rating

Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and …

AK Press has made 6 e-books free to download for a limited period: www.akpress.org/featured-products/featured-topic-free-ebook.html

  • Practicing New Worlds - Abolition and Emergent Strategies
  • Street Rebellion - Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
  • No Pasarán! - Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis
  • The Operating System - An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
  • Joyful Militancy - Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
  • Emergent Strategy - Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

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Elliott Hay: A Bit of Murder Between Friends (EBook, White Hart Fiction) No rating

Every day, Baz, Peggy, Carole, and Madge get together to knit, drink tea, and dole …

I don't know about you, but I'm finding everything really hard right now.

So today I come to you with free books. No code. No minimum purchase. No secret handshake. Just free books.

If you need a dash of hope, then maybe The Left Hand of Dog will bring you joy. www.whitehartfiction.co.uk/products/left-hand-ebook

If you'd prefer a story of women getting justice through any means necessary, then A Bit of Murder Between Friends might be what the doctor ordered. www.whitehartfiction.co.uk/products/between-ebook

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Si Clarke: The Left Hand of Dog (Paperback, 2021, White Hart Fiction) No rating

I don't know about you, but I'm finding everything really hard right now.

So today I come to you with free books. No code. No minimum purchase. No secret handshake. Just free books.

If you need a dash of hope, then maybe The Left Hand of Dog will bring you joy. www.whitehartfiction.co.uk/products/left-hand-ebook

If you'd prefer a story of women getting justice through any means necessary, then A Bit of Murder Between Friends might be what the doctor ordered. www.whitehartfiction.co.uk/products/between-ebook

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Veo Corva: Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew (EBook, 2024, Witch Key Fiction) 5 stars

Luxorian is a dragon without a rider, and that's a problem.

Since ancient times, dragons …

Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew

5 stars

Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew is first and foremost a novella about space dragons, or at least one particular space dragon.

However, it is also about recovering from abusive relationships, building a family, doing and being more than others believe you can, and thriving in a universe where everything is built for beings of different sizes, shapes, and abilities.

If any of this resonates with you, or even if you're just in the mood for a wonderfully-written, bite-sized space opera, go and read Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew! Space Dragons!

Hayley Scrivenor: Dirt Town (2022, Macmillan Publishers Limited) 4 stars

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in …

Dirt Town

4 stars

This is a novel so Australian that it goes from Milo to "no worries" to lamington in the course of a single paragraph.

Apart from that, it's kind of a typical crime novel following the investigation of a young teenage girl's disappearance.

The most interesting thing it does, in my opinion, is, among the chapters following various characters' viewpoints, adding "we" chapters that are meant to be kind of a combined viewpoint of the town's kids.

Malka Older: The Mimicking of Known Successes (Hardcover, 2023, Tordotcom) 4 stars

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …