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Residuum (the final instalment in Dominic Dulley’s epic space opera
The Long Game series), Orry Kent just wants a quiet life. But even a little R&R on the holiday planet of Halcyon turns wild when she accidentally sparks off a revolution amongst the downtrodden native workers. But that’s small beer compared with the news footage being broadcast across the Ascendancy, showing Orry murdering the man she saved just six months earlier and destroying the Halstaad-Mirnov Institute, the heart of research into the aeons-dead alien race called The Departed.
With her brother Ethan, the irascible spacedog Captain Mender and his intelligent spaceship Dainty Jane, not to mention the Kadiran exile Quondam, she sets off to prove her innocence. It’s just a shame that means teaming up with the woman she loathes more than anyone else in any universe: the space pirate and criminal mastermind Cordelia Roag. For it’s not just Orry’s freedom at stake now: a long-dormant planet-eating plague
Elaine Chung
When Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham started to collaborate, turning Franck s long-running role-playing game into a novel called
Still Franck and Abraham persevered, selling Leviathan Wakes to Orbit Books under the pen name James S.A. Corey. When the book was published, the front cover sported a quote from George R.R. Martin: It s been too long since we ve had a really kickass space opera.
Now, of course,
Leviathan Wakes has been followed by eight sequels and a TV show,
The Expanse, whose fifth season ends tonight. And the shelves at your local bookstore are crammed with kickass space operas by authors like Valerie Valdes, Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie, Yoon Ha Lee, Arkady Martine, Kameron Hurley, Nicky Drayden, Karen Lord, Tim Pratt, John Scalzi, Nnedi Okorafor, and Karen Osborne.
The sequel to
All the Stars and Teeth finds Amora Montara finally on her rightful throne, but her position is precarious and she’s still keeping her lost magic a closely guarded secret. A mysterious artifact could be the key to setting things right but at what price? (February 2)
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And Then She Vanished by Nick Jones A man whose sister disappeared when they were children realizes he has the ability to time travel but slipping into the past to save her proves both complicated and dangerous. (February 2)
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Beneath the Keep by Erika Johansen
In a troubled kingdom, a princess must decide between staying loyal to her royal family or joining a rebellion that could ultimately help save her people. (February 2)
February Is Here With an Avalanche of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
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February may be the shortest month, but the book gods are not holding back whatsoever with this flood of sweet new releases. Read on for forest monsters, space explorers, princesses with dark fates, unwitting inter-dimensional travellers, and so much more!