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Science Fiction to Look for in June 2020

Originally Published: Amazing Stories, https://amazingstories.com/?p=202037

Last month certainly ended with excitement and good news for science fiction fans with the successful crew launch and docking of Dragon at the ISS. It’s a measure of how much SpaceX is normalizing space travel that we know Bob and Doug by their first names, rather than the more formal recognition of earlier pioneers like Lindberg, Glen, or Armstrong. But now that the excitement is over for a while, you’ll be needing some interesting science fiction to read. You’ve come to the right place. Continue reading →

The Relentless MoonA Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Relentless MoonA Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal 07/14/2020 Macmillan-Tor/Forge

This one stars Nicole Wargin, one of the original 6 Lady Astronauts in this 1950 alt-history where a meteor impact forces the world to look to Mars for a new home for humanity. Earth is facing a slow death, and Kowal has managed to create all the excitement of the space race with a (mostly) new set of players. The biggest technological difference is the lack of electronic computers, relying on the sort of people we saw in Hidden Figures, often women, frequently people of color, and always having to fight for their place. Continue reading →

Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air (The Frost Files #2) by Jackson Ford

Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air
(The Frost Files #2)
by Jackson Ford
06/16/2020 (Orbit)

Teagen, The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind, is back and things are looking up for her. She’s got a steady job working for the China Shop a cover ops team based in L.A. under the guise of a moving company, her friend Nic is getting closer to getting closer, and nobody is trying to arrest her for murder, which was a thing in the first book. She’s Teagan is the most self-absorbed hero ever to brandish special powers, but she’s getting better. Of course that can’t last. Continue reading →

Three Contemporary Fantasies: A Cowgirl, a Ranger, and a Flower Arranger Walk Into Weirdness

I don’t read a lot of fantasy, but there are a few books I love. Kim Antieau’s Coyote Cowgirl, Tim Pratt’s debut novel The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, and Richard Grant’s In the Land of Winter. Even though I have all three in hardcover, I have them in eBook version too, except for Grant’s, because that’s not available. Which is why I’ve read most of Kim Antieau’s work, a fair amount of Tim Pratt’s, and only one of Richard Grant’s. Continue reading →

Science Fiction Books to Look for this March

Originally Published: https://amazingstories.com/2019/12/science-fiction-…for-march-2020/

There are a lot of interesting offerings for science fiction readers this month, though I didn’t make as big a dent in my reading pile as I’d like. As a result, I’m only talking about five books: three of them space operas; one a retro tale set in the mid-sixties; a road trip across a “nanotech Western” landscape, and a collection of robot tales. What I found really interesting was the way certain themes kept cropping up. Continue reading →