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  • Martha Wells

    About Platform Decay Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells’ bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans…

  • I remember why I loved LitRPG

    About Death Has Joined the Party Welcome, sentient races one and all, to the centennial season of the greatest collaboration between mortals and gods! The most thrilling, most deadly, most watched spectacle ever put on in any realm…Mana Runners! The infinite dungeon below Whitepeak, the famous City of Wizards, has reset itself once again, bringing…

  • Kiersten White

    About The Fox & The Devil An obsession with an immortal serial killer entangles a vampire hunter’s daughter in a sapphic romance in this enthralling gothic fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lucy Undying. Anneke has a complicated relationship with her father, Abraham Van Helsing—doctor, scientist, and madman devoted to the study of vampires—until…

  • John Chu

    About The Subtle Art of Folding Space The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn’t your usual jaunt through quantum physics. Ellie’s universe—and this one—is falling apart.…

  • Jennifer Mandula rewrites Mary Anning’s life

    About The Geomagician When a Victorian fossil hunter discovers a baby pterodactyl, she vows to protect him, with the help of a fellow scholar—her former fiancé—in this enchanting and transporting historical fantasy. Mary Anning wants to be a geomagician—a paleontologist who uses fossils to wield magic—but since the Geomagical Society of London refuses to admit…

  • The Longwinded One joined me for a 3rd time!

    About Get Trucked Ever wonder why you hear about so many people getting hit by trucks? Yeah. That’s me.  My name is Max. State Trooper by day, and Endr by night. I work for the Bureau of Afterlife Dispatch. It’s my job to send the chosen into the next realm to serve their calling. The Endr…

  • From Mickey 7 to After the Fall: Edward Ashton on Dark Comedy & Power

    About After the Fall Humans must be silent. Humans must be obedient. Humans must be good. All his life, John has tried to live by those rules. Most days, it’s not too difficult. A hundred and twenty years after The Fall, and a hundred years after the grays swept in to pick the last dregs…

  • The Vanishing Bookstore: Salem, Witches, and Mystery with Helen Phifer

    author Helen Phifer chats about her new book The Vanishing Bookstore About The Vanishing Bookstore 1692. On the outskirts of Salem, a bookstore stands covered in overgrown vines. Inside, a young woman hides a linen-wrapped journal under a loose floorboard and runs away, panicked by the sound of hounds barking in the distance. The bookstore vanishes…

  • Cait Jacobs

    author of The Princess Knight About The Princess Knight A princess desperate to win back the prince who broke her heart follows him to his kingdom’s prestigious military academy—and in doing so, falls in love, saves the realm, and continues to look fabulous, in this delightful debut fantasy. Domhnall and Clía are an ideal match—or…

  • Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

    Released November 2018 I was pretty sure this book was going to be “okay”. Maybe even “alright”. I was wrong. This book is hilarious, sweet, intelligent, and made me want to read everything T. Kingfisher has written. The story starts off with Halla being mistreated by her dead husband’s family, but then quickly veers away…