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At the heart of Hugo winner Vo’s masterful latest is the turbulent relationship between a hedonistic demon and one of the angels responsible for smiting the sinful human city she once called home. The result is part sweeping romance between eldrich immortal beings, and part evocative tone poem meditating on destruction, devotion, and what it takes to rebuild.
It’s impossible to come away from Mochizuki’s subtle gem of a debut without one’s faith in humanity restored. The gentle but dexterous plot follows five strangers who stumble upon a café run by fortune-telling cats and slowly reveals the unexpected intersections between the disparate cast. This is cozy fantasy done right.
Bestseller Chizmar pays gleeful homage to found footage and cosmic horror tropes in this bone-chilling epic about a trio of college students attempting to make a documentary on Appalachian roadside memorials. As the group becomes convinced that someone—or something—is following them, characters and prose alike descend into itchy paranoia. It’s sleep-with-the-lights-on scary.
Transporting readers to a dazzlingly inventive galaxy, this thrilling, series-launching space opera introduces research scientist Tonner Freis just before he’s abducted by an extraterrestrial hive mind intent on conquering the universe. The stakes are sky-high, the scale is vast, and pseudonymous writing duo Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck remain unparalleled at crafting deeply human characters even in wildly alien worlds.
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Clarke deeply engages with themes of labor rights, exploitation, and power within the pulpy, page-turning framework of a gripping revenge story. It’s an impressive juggling act, and Clarke makes it look easy, rounding things out with wonderfully complex science-fantasy worldbuilding and a steamy lesbian love plot for good measure.
Combining acute psychological detail with eerie fairy tale elements, Coles’s debut sets itself apart from the recent renaissance of gothic literature even as it revels in the genre’s tropes. What starts as the story of a mixed-race woman in Victorian England traveling to the home of her new husband, a virtual stranger, becomes a surreal fever dream as the elegant plot unfolds.
In Rice’s harrowing sequel to Moon of the Crusted Snow, set 12 years after a global power outage, the Anishinaabe people who settled in New Village are forced to relocate, trekking through a dystopian landscape in hope of finding a new home. Rice chronicles their journey in gorgeous prose, placing plenty of postapocalyptic horrors in their path but never losing sight of hope.
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