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Five authors imagine lives beyond a manufactured purpose: androids, a warship intelligence, a security construct, an Artificial Friend and a mind learning to inhabit a new body.
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John Gwynne closes the Bloodsworn trilogy with battles that pull us into the fighting and character endings that stay true to the harshness of his world.
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Holly Jackson gives the countdown thriller a personal twist: the person seeking the killer is also the victim.
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V. E. Schwab brings three women's lives into a gothic story of hunger, desire and the possibility of living beyond ordinary limits.
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Aisling Rawle's debut uses a reality-show competition to ask what people will accept when comfort depends on staying in the game.
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R. F. Kuang sends rival students into the underworld, making professional ambition the starting point of a fantasy descent.
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War divides Emarion as the conflict between mortals and the Descended reaches its final stage. With hostile forces advancing from different directions, the Crowns in Lumnos must seek an unlikely alliance. The fourth and concluding Kindred’s Curse novel brings its struggle over power and survival to a decisive confrontation.
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In 1950s Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ava and Lauren arrive at Radcliffe from very different backgrounds. A secret society of witches brings them together and introduces them to powers they must learn to navigate. Their friendship faces a growing threat as members disappear and the suspicion surrounding McCarthyism reaches their world.
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Sybil remains captive as King Benji uses a series of tournaments to strengthen his rule. She is determined to undermine him, even as his power tightens around her. A mysterious competitor with no memory may offer a way forward in this continuation of The Knight and the Moth.
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Ana Dolabra and Dinios Kol investigate a murder for which a powerful family's heir appears responsible. His execution could plunge the agricultural canton of Sapirdad into war and threaten the Empire's food supply. Their third case leads towards a wider conspiracy and an ancient weapon.
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A countdown, an uneasy household, a familiar detective club: five different ways into the year’s reader favorites.
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Gothic desire, academic ambition, coastal myth and epic sequels: choose the kind of fantasy you want to enter.
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Reality shows, dream surveillance and contested memories: five speculative premises for very different reading moods.
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Laila Lalami imagines surveillance reaching into sleep, turning the difference between possible harm and actual guilt into a daily struggle.
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James Islington's second Hierarchy novel is a substantial return for readers already invested in The Will of the Many.
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