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Code Blue

by Nancy Powell

"Code Blue" is a thoughtful and satisfying young adult novel set in a world where climate change has altered much. Marissa Slaven’s bold, ambitious young adult novel "Code Blue" tackles climate change in the politically divided United... Read More

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Utopia PR

by Randi Hacker

Sharp and witty, the novel "Utopia PR" is a free range political send-up set in a chaotic, perplexing, and familiar future world. In Adam Bender’s future-adjacent political satire "Utopia PR", a government public relations operative... Read More

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Into the Lightning Gate

by John M. Murray

A cosmic conspiracy ensnares a tech-savvy man in the science fiction novel "Into the Lightning Gate". In Robert Roth’s pulse-pounding science fiction novel "Into the Lightning Gate", a man is targeted by a shadowy cabal of... Read More

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The Given

by Brandee Gruener

"The Given" is a radiant fantasy novel in which a young adult grows into her magical powers and embraces them. In Gary Clark’s fantasy novel The Given, teenagers flee a government that wishes to capture and neutralize anyone with... Read More

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The Best of World SF

by Claire Foster

Although science fiction imagines diverse, imaginative, and frightening futures, genre anthologies rarely achieve the brilliant range and diversity of voices of The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Edited by Lavie Tidhar, this labor of love... Read More

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How to Mars

by Michelle Anne Schingler

Six bold adventurers leave Earth behind forever in David Ebenbach’s droll science fiction novel "How to Mars". Of the many applicants for a one-way excursion to Mars, six are selected, both for their scientific acumen and for their... Read More

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Solo Viola

by Ho Lin

Antoine Volodine’s superb post-exotic novel "Solo Viola" imagines a society that’s one step removed from reality. With a narrative spiced up by absurdity and a dead serious message, this is a brisk, engrossing, and phantasmagorical... Read More

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