Strange Horizons Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Genesis of Misery
Neon Yang
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
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez
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
The Hollows
Daniel Church
@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
Through Immortal Shadows Singing
Mari Ness
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
Orphans of Canland
Daniel Vitale
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
The Ten Percent Thief: Shortlisted for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award!
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
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
Light Years from Home
Mike Chen
@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
Fantasy Kit
Adam McOmber
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
The Defectors
René Georg Vasicek
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
Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices
Rukmini Pande
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)