“It was fine. I had dealt with Combat SecUnits before. Not, like, successfully, or anything, but still.” After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn’t know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for… eye contact! I know…
Tag: Murder
A Treachery of Swans by A.B. Poranek
“She had a warmth, a light, that drew me into her orbit—I was a moth and she a flame, I the tides and she the moon. Whatever we were, she was always, always the light, and I the thing skulking in the dark.” Raised by a sorcerer, Odile has spent years preparing for the heist…
Queer as Folklore by Sacha Coward
“If we look at some of the most celebrated or prolific story originators of all time, we find among them a surprising number of eccentric bachelors and unmarried women. People who travelled widely, made strange friends and lived unusual and transient lifestyles.” Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward will take you on a wild ride…
The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
“How to write a love poem for someone I hated so deeply, with every drop of my blood in my veins?How to do it so convincingly that even the Ancestors believed it?” In the waning years of the Azalea Dynasty, the emperor is dying, the land consumed by famine, and poetry magic lost to all…
Innamorata by Ava Reid
“Absolute reality was too much for any human to bear.” Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy. A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing their eldritch magic. But defiant against the new order…
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
“They were all gone. All I had left in this world was right here. Mongo soon started to snore. I could feel Donut’s warmth against the back of my neck. She breathed softly, oblivious of all that had occurred tonight. This, I thought, this is my family.” The ratings and views are off the chart….
Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
“i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?” Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, psychotherapist, conflict mediator, and spiritual healer, she’s always pursued the same deeply…
This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara
“‘Aelius’s beliefs are his own.’‘Are they?” Kadra flipped through a stack of letters. ‘He’ll be devastated to hear it He’s been trying to make them everyone else’s for quite some time.’” Eighteen-year-old Sarai doesn’t know why someone tried to kill her four years ago, but she does know that her case was closed without justice….
The Strength of the Few by James Islington
“Grief, my mother once told me, is love’s most honest expression. The last and hardest aspect of truly, truly caring for someone. She said it at her own mother’s funeral rites, tears in her eyes even as she tried to comfort a boy too young to understand why he was so sad, why his grandmother…
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
“After all, as a proverb from southern Africa says, ‘When the lions have historians, then the hunters will cease to be heroes.’” For too long, Africa’s history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our global story. Now, Zeinab…
The Great Book Wyrm 