Elizabeth Bear🌻 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Hugo, Sturgeon, Astounding Award-winning author: ANCESTRAL NIGHT, RANGE OF GHOSTS, HAMMERED, KAREN MEMORY etc. probably not 2 ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.

The Steel Remains
Richard K. Morgan
@scalzi If we're looking for Jemisin comps: Octavia Butler, Tade Thompson, C. J. Cherryh, Richard Morgan's science fantasy series starting with THE STEEL REMAINS.
Paperback, 2010
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Mercies
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The first one is Kiran Millwood Hargrave's THE MERCIES, which walks a line between historical fiction & slipstream to tell about queer women in a 14th century Norwegian fishing village where something mysterious in the ocean has killed nearly all the men. https://t.co/w8gafdc8kR
Paperback, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dream Runners
Shveta Thakrar
Happy Book Birthday to the wonderful @ShvetaThakrar for THE DREAM RUNNERS, "A lush tapestry of dreams, Hindu myth, and magic—perfect for fans of Holly Black, Roshani Chokshi, and Margaret Rogerson." https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-dream-runners-shveta-thakrar?variant=39715543777314
Paperback, 2023
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Actual Star
Monica Byrne
RT @sfsignal: Interview with Monica Byrne (THE ACTUAL STAR) - https://t.co/gMWO0Ytaa0
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Elatsoe
Darcie Little Badger
Darcie Little Badger's ELATSOE is a lovely YA novel with an Ace main character and the world's most charming ghost dog. Seriously just read this, it's cool. https://t.co/SYwqw3legs
Paperback, 2023
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fledgling
Octavia E. Butler
There's still time to register for @NisiShawl and adrienne marie brown in conversation about Octavia Butler's THE FLEDGLING, a virtual event being held by my local bookstore, @odysseybks! TONIGHT on zoom at 7:30 EST! https://t.co/4yX9YhTD1K
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
@RedTriage @phnel It's a hell of a book and very upsetting in its parallels. As is Daniel Defoe's A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR. (Yes, the Robinson Crusoe guy.)
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Venus on the Half-Shell
Philip Jose Farmer
@AdamsRaggedy Yeah, the ending of Breakfast of Champions is still one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever read. Speaking of Trout, did you know that... I think it was Philip Jose Farmer... wrote a couple of his fictional novels? Venus on the Half Shell definitely.
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Will Do Magic for Small Change
Andrea Hairston
It's the longest day of the year and the longest day of Pride! To celebrate, a jolting, jarring novel by Andrea Hairston, WILL DO MAGIC FOR SMALL CHANGE, in which people and relationships navigate not fitting the expected mold--even in a counterculture. https://t.co/qN1DOYCNw7
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson
Today in #queerbooksforPride I bring you Seth Dickinson's THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT, which manages to be both competence porn and Disaster Queer before Disaster Queer was cool. Here's a reader response by none other than Arkady Martine: https://t.co/DfPhz8Nz70
Paperback, 2016
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book