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Book Cover for: The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang

The Genesis of Misery

Neon Yang
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Reviews time! "If you ever wanted to see mecha anime transmuted to prose fiction, or if you are seeking science fiction that explores the role of religion in a queer and interstellar setting..." @witchywonderer on The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang: https://t.co/cshjuZfuDL

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Simon Jimenez
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Finally, as always, we have three reviews for you! On a Monday, @AdriJjy reviewed The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez: https://t.co/mGgAs1pawZ

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Hollows

Daniel Church
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@PrimmLife reviews The Hollows by Daniel Church: “Church has made Barsall a community in The Hollows, not just a setting... Church shows humanity is strongest when it works as a community.” https://t.co/9QP53Hhlln

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Through Immortal Shadows Singing, Mari Ness

Through Immortal Shadows Singing

Mari Ness
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Y'all just unlocked double poems for 2023! Onward to specials! Reward Spotlight on @mari_ness's "Through Immortal Shadows Singing" (in Autographed Books 3). It's a poem, it's a novella, it's myth, it's the most beautiful woman ever (famous Helen), it looks like it's made of gold https://t.co/ItoZrG5syu

Paperback, 2017

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Orphans of Canland, Daniel Vitale

Orphans of Canland

Daniel Vitale
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Andy Sawyer reviews Orphans of Canland by Daniel Vitale, “a novel in which we frequently have to stop and think and even turn back to scenes which we need to re-read and re-comprehend. But it is worth the journey.” https://t.co/dAmQmlFkz5

Paperback, 2022

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Ten Percent Thief: Shortlisted for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award!, Lavanya Lakshminarayan

The Ten Percent Thief: Shortlisted for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award!

Lavanya Lakshminarayan
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For our last review, Eric Hendel covers The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan, “an innovative work of fiction which I think could only ever be told as a sequence of interconnected short stories.” https://t.co/oB85DTrgP6

Hardcover, 2023

$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Light Years from Home, Mike Chen

Light Years from Home

Mike Chen
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@div_online reviews Light Years From Home by Mike Chen, calling it “Quiet on their surface but so full of turmoil and love… With an abundance of deep breaths and reconsidered reactions, Chen shows us a family trying its absolute best.” https://t.co/Fz8Kj4rFrz

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Fantasy Kit, Adam McOmber

Fantasy Kit

Adam McOmber
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Reviews time! @R_Turkewitz finds Adam Mcomber's Fantasy Kit - an ensemble of 35 short stories - to be "disorienting, engrossing, sensual, astoundingly smart, deeply imaginative, and utterly bewitching." Now that's a recommendation, if we ever heard one! https://t.co/TioMKRh5Na

Paperback, 2022

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Defectors, René Georg Vasicek

The Defectors

René Georg Vasicek
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Finally, Aaron Hiel reviews The Defectors by René Georg Vasicek, saying it “delivers an unexpected spin on genre staples like robots, alternate lives, and authoritarianism with the story of Zig.” https://t.co/amV6joEJTT

Paperback, 2020

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices, Rukmini Pande

Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices

Rukmini Pande
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And now the reviews themselves! First up Andrea Horbinski reviews "Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices", edited by Rukmini Pande - "a wide-ranging set of essays considering the intersection of fandom and race from a variety of perspectives." https://t.co/m11RDVArcW

Paperback, 2020

$75.00$50.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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