Like Pacific Rim if it were a book, just better & more feminist.
N.B. There are content warnings at the front, and as they do not reveal any of the plot, please do take note of them. Some heavy topics are covered.
Marisca
Claudia Gray has been one of the best Star Wars writers since the debut of the new canon and her win streak continues here. I am so excited about the High Republic launch and you will be too after Into The Dark, which will be both familiar and fresh to Star Wars fans new or old!
Caleb
Yap's stories dance between horror and rom com, fantasy and cultural critique. These stories are haunted by magic and Filipino mythology and I just ate them up.
Meaghan
Gender-spun Alexander the Great in space! Kate Elliott is a masterful writer, and this nonstop science fiction page-turner is a perfect way to pass some cold winter nights.
Rebecca
I loved this book! It's witty and sharp, and probably exactly what Maine would look like in an apocalypse. The main character, Journeyman, is a wayward soul who found himself in Maine at the time that all technology died. His life is interrupted when a person from his past arrives in a "supercar", and chaos ensues.
Heather
The Incredibles meets...data analytics. Anna works as a data cruncher for supervillains, an exceptionally boring occupation until she's injured on the job by a superhero. When the police decline to investigate, she takes matters into her own hands to uncover the true cost of "heroics," and discovers that the difference between villains and heroes may be more a question of good PR than morality. Thoughtful and extremely funny.
Rebecca
This near-future sci-fi thriller somehow manages to be simultaneously harrowing and hopeful. For fans of Six Wakes or The Martian.
Rebecca
When a city reaches a certain point, it stops being a location on a map and starts being a massive living entity. It's New York's turn now, but nothing is going the way it usually does. The city's six new human avatars need to figure out how to work together and use their powers fast or New York is doomed. A love letter to the weirdness and wonder that is New York City written in N K Jemisin's stunning prose.
Shana
At times baffling, at times exuberant, at times your curmudgeonly profession uncle who doesn’t like smart phones, at times breathtaking, The Dreamed Part is less a book and more a mind-altering substance. Fresan writes about and towards that pliable mental state between waking & dreaming. A tremendous literary accomplishment with some of the most amazing prose about books & reading I’ve ever seen in a novel.
Josh
Ashlords is one you won't be able to put down! It has something for everyone - sci-fi horse racing, phoenixes, SCIENCE, fights to the death, ghosts?, dimension hopping, and more! - and yet it never feels crowded or overly complicated. You'll be frantically turning the pages in this total adrenaline rush!
Caleb
