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Filter house Filter house Nisi Shawl Filter House is a collection of short fiction by Nisi Shawl, with an introduction by Eileen Gunn (author of Stable Strategies). The collection's fourteen tales offer a haunting montage that works its… OL13778455W
Magic's Price (The Last Herald-Mage Series, Book 3) Magic's Price (The Last Herald-Mage Series, Book 3) Mercedes Lackey The final chapter in Mercedes Lackey's spellbinding fantasy trilogy! The Herald-Mage, Vanyel, and his Companion, Yfandes, are alone responsible for saving the once-peaceful kingdom of Valdemar from t… OL14913391W
The German The German Lee Thomas Set during the height of World War II, The German examines the effect a series of ritualistic murders has on a small, Texas community. A killer preys on the young men of Barnard, Texas, leaving crypt… OL15444805W
Point of dreams Point of dreams Melissa Scott,Lisa A. Barnett The city of Astreiant has gone crazy with enthusiasm for a new play, The Drowned Island, a lurid farrago of melodrama and innuendo. Pointsman Nicolas Rathe is not amused, however, at a real dead body… OL1697243W
The Girl in the Road The Girl in the Road Monica Byrne Waking up in a futuristic Mumbai with five snake bites, Meena is compelled to return to her native Ethiopia by way of a forbidden path spanning the Arabian Sea; while a girl from a different time, Ma… OL17413625W
Infidel Infidel Kameron Hurley The only thing worse than war is revolution. Especially when you’re already losing the war… Nyx used to be a bel dame, a government-funded assassin with a talent for cutting off heads for cash. No… OL17499190W
The James Tiptree Award anthology 2 The James Tiptree Award anthology 2 Karen Joy Fowler Stories for women, for men, and for the rest of us. Female, male, gay, bisexual, straight, transgender, human, alien, or simply other, the Tiptree Award honors fiction that explores and expands ou… OL18512977W
Worlds Apart Worlds Apart Lyn Paleo,Camilla Decarnin,Eric Garber 20cm.317 OL18993538W
Freshwater Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi Both a recounting of trauma and its impacts, as well as a retelling of a Nigerian fable. The main character's multiple experiences of trauma are retold and the author unflinchingly explores how they … OL19343569W
The Stars Are Legion The Stars Are Legion Kameron Hurley,Nicole Poole,Teri Schnaubelt 396 pages ; 20 cm OL19618080W
The breath of the sun The breath of the sun Isaac Fellman Lamat Paed understands paradoxes. She's a great mountain climber who's never summited, the author of a tell-all that didn't really tell anything. For years she guided pilgrims up the foothills of the… OL19754158W
Daughters of an emerald dusk Daughters of an emerald dusk Katherine V. Forrest Late in the twenty-second century, 4,000 women escape the tyranny of a male-dominated Earth and colonize the planet of Maternas. Katherine V. Forrest’s influential 1984 novel, Daughters of a Coral Da… OL2008008W
A Memory Called Empire A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine Won the 2020 Hugo for Best Novel. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare is posted far from her mining station home, to the Empire's glorious capital. Yet when she arrives, she discovers her predecessor was murder… OL20157046W
Once & Future Once & Future Amy Rose Capetta,Cori McCarthy I've been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I've always had to hide who I am. Until I found Excalibur. Now I'm done hi… OL20159220W
The Light Brigade The Light Brigade Natalia Cervera,Kameron Hurley,Anna Llisterri From the Hugo Award­­–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to… OL20448973W
Raybearer Raybearer Jordan Ifueko Nothing is more important than loyalty. But what if you've sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy? Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a… OL20745722W
Survivability Report Survivability Report Eoin N. Andrews Peace is earned by withdrawing from the field for those not like us. (Sacks 2013) Well, that sucks. After one evening with a Djinn, Sean, a military contractor, revisited the notion of becoming… OL24168734W
The Worship of Mystery The Worship of Mystery J.R. Mabry Jun Battacharya’s final tour of duty sends him to a desolate planet where a mining accident forces him to launch his students into their work without any training. An invitation arrives from an al… OL26411461W
Somewhere in the night Somewhere in the night Jeffrey N. McMahan All of the protagonists of the eight horror tales here are gay, allowing McMahan both a new twist on chiller standbys, such as vampirism and spirit possession, and an intriguing perspective on the co… OL2720852W
The Kappa Child The Kappa Child Hiromi Goto From the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canadian Region and was co-winner of the Canada Japan Book Awa… OL3615811W
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