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  The Only Living Girl on Earth

  Charles Yu

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  From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future. 
  Jane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t born on Earth, but her ancestors were; they lived there before the AI in charge of geoengineering failed and the oceans got too hot to sustain the terrestrial food web and before humans took off to colonize other planets. 
  She’s heading to college on Jupiter in the fall of 3020, so her days on the home planet—selling “American Epoch” postcards, “History: The Poster!” and “War: The Soundtrack” to tourists from the suburbs of Europa—are numbered. But as the looping promotional ad for Earth details, in the planet’s more recent past there was an amusement park, a museum, and even a model American town to draw visitors: all shuttered now, abandoned. When a man and his son crash-land their rocket and need assistance, as well as some diversion, Jane learns that the other attractions on Earth are not so defunct after all and may have taken on a life of their own. 
  Told, fittingly, in interconnected fragments, The Only Living Girl on Earth captures a place where only fragments of its landscape remain. At once dead serious and playful, recognizable and as otherworldly and unsettling as Yu’s other sci-fi reinventions, it is a cautionary tale about all that we could lose—are losing—by failing to live sustainably and about what we hope to leave behind for future generations. It is also a love letter to what it means to be human, how connected we are to a place and one another, and how we must fight to preserve these gifts. In this, Yu expresses his unique brand of cosmic humanism, that even in the face of dire circumstances, when we feel the most estranged from who and what we are, there is still hope.

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  Bone Shroud

  Andrew D Meredith

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  Opportunity Knocks — Secrets Deepen — Shadows Loom 
  Hanen and Rallia have made a new home for themselves, only to discover secrets from their past that reveal a darker future. 
  The heretical rift forming in the order of Paladins widens—only Jined and his closest allies stand in the breach. 
  As imminent danger wilts the Crysalas, Katiam is cast away to lands beyond the edge of any dream. 
  The blind monk Seriah has never feared death, until she becomes sole witness to a ghastly murder. 
  Nightmares become flesh, schism looms, while an unseen figure walks in shadow wearing a cloak formed of the bones of his victims. 
  For those who seek the heroes path, 
  Fate takes more than bargained for. 
  Hubris breeds a deathless wrath, 
  That always hungers after more. 
  Bone Shroud is Volume Two of The Kallattian Saga, the Epic Fantasy series from Andrew D. Meredith. 
  "An absolutely excellent sequel that builds upon the already strong and unique foundation of the previous entry and adds in new twists and turns all the way to its explosive and shocking finale." — Joe Lee, Author of the Spellbinders and Gunslingers series 
  "I’ve never before felt such over-whelming faith in someone to deliver me works that will utterly engross and electrify me." — Elizabeth Allen

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  Between Frames

  W.R. Gingell

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  Two fae is company, but a company of fae is trouble. 
   
   
   
  Which is exactly what we've got. Trouble, I mean. Well, and fae. Lots of fae. 
   
   
   
  Something or someone is stalking and killing high-level fae around Hobart—tearing out hearts and leaving a trail of bloody bodies behind. Fae don't like it when they're the ones getting killed, so of course they came to hire my owners. 
   
   
   
  Owners, you ask? 
   
   
   
  Hi. I'm Pet. No, that's not my name. I am a pet. 
   
   
   
  My owners? They're fae. Well, two fae and one stroppy vampire. 
   
   
   
  Welcome to the world Between.

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  I Came Home From Saving the...

  Susan Kaye Quinn

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  SHORT STORY: A very short story about the cost of cutting down a tree.I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.

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  Just Kitten

  Corrine Winters

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  There's a dead man on the floor. And somebody is knocking on the door! 
   
   
   
  Her trusty feline familiar, Rumpus, is passed out in the bathtub. It looks like a setup. 
   
   
   
  They weren't lying when they said middle age was full of surprises! 
   
   
   
  She can't go to her boyfriend, Jon. As Chief of Police, he'd have a nasty conflict of interest. The truth is that Ruby looks like the suspect. And there's nothing or no one on the good side of the law that can help her. So . . . she teams up with the mob. 
   
   
   
  That's right. She calls her nemesis, Benito Lombardi. Call it crazy, but she believes him when he tells her that he has too much respect and if he wanted her gone, he'd take her out openly. 
   
   
   
  Now Ruby and Rumpus have a whole new cast of characters who are helping them, and they're not all good guys. But they all have one thing in common. They need to find the killer who set Ruby up. Because this time she may have woken up drugged and groggy. 
   
   
   
  Next time, she may not be waking up at all!

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  Revelation

  Kyle West

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  Alex and friends return to a Wasteland in turmoil. The Raiders are scattered, the Exiles hunted, and the feuding Vegas gangs plot one another's destruction. Makara, head of the New Angels, has the difficult task of convincing disparate groups to work together before Emperor Augustus and his legions arrive. 
   
   
   
  But while humanity fights amongst itself, the Great Blight prepares its final onslaught—and at the center of it all, there is a secret that could spell the end of the invasion. It is a revelation only Alex can discover, and it might cost him everything.

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