The Watchtower – Lee Carroll

About the book Whatsecrets are hidden in her past . . . ? Jewelrydesigner Garet James is still coming to terms with the astoundingrevelation in BLACK SWAN RISING that she is the last in a long line of womensworn to protect the world from evil.  Now she has received a signfrom Will Hughes, the 400-year-old vampire who once…

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The First Days – Rhiannon Frater

About the book RhiannonFrater’s As the World Dies trilogy is an internet sensation. Thefirst two books, The First Days and Fighting to Survive, have won the Dead Letter Award for Best Novelfrom Mail Order Zombie. TheFirst Days was named one of the Best Zombie Books of theDecade by the Harrisburg BookExaminer. American Horror Blog calls Rhiannon Frater “a writer to watch.” Themorning that the world ends,…

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The Snow Queen – Joan D. Vinge

About the book The imperious Winter colonists have ruled theplanet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the seamers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost ifArienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an…

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After the Golden Age – Carrie Vaughn

About the Book Can an accountant defeat a supervillain? Celia West, only daughter of the heroic leaders of the superpowered Olympiad, has spent the past few years estranged from her parents and their high-powered lifestyle. She’s had enough of masks and heroics, and wants only to live her own quiet life out from under the…

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Zoo City – Lauren Beukes

About the Book Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job – missing persons. Being hired by…

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Why I couldn’t finish…

About the Book Without a morsel of exaggeration, its publisher describes this debut novel as “a comedy of manners set in Victorian London full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.” At the center of Soulless’s “parasol protectorate” is Miss Alexia Tarabotti, a young woman who lacks not only a suitor but also a soul. And those…

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The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

About the Book It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only…

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Fathom – Cherie Priest

About the Book The ageless water witch Arahab has been scheming for aeons, gathering the means to awaken the great Leviathan. She aims to bring him and the old gods back to their former glory, caring little that their ascendance would also mean an end to the human race. However, awakening the Leviathan is no…

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The Broken Kingdoms – N.K. Jemisin

About the Book In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies…

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All the Windwracked Stars – Elizabeth Bear

About the Book She is starlight made immortal flesh, and her soul lives inside her sword of light. She is Muire, the last of the Valkyrie, and she walks among the morals of Valdyrgard alone, save for the Valraven– one of the many-formed steeds who carried some of the Valkarie to war–who claimed her for…

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