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Saad Z Hossain, Djinn City: ( Djinns as jerksCollapse )
Seanan McGuire, Dying with Her Cheer Pants On:( Buffy done by McGuireCollapse )
Charles Stross, Escape from Puroland: ( what about Bob?Collapse )

Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne: ( magic and burning peopleCollapse )
Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This: ( what realism looks like nowCollapse )
C.L. Polk, Soulstar: ( the revolution in fantasy industrial EnglandCollapse )
Danez Smith, Homie: ( poemsCollapse )
Linden A. Lewis, The First Sister: ( handmaids and swordsCollapse )
C.S. Friedman, This Virtual Night: ( virtual reality in the far futureCollapse )

Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary: ( Boy Scouts in spaceCollapse )

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Just finished watching Julie and the Phantoms on Netflix, a show that has no business being as good as it ended up being. Julie is a teen who lost her mom, and also lost the ability to play the music that she used to make with her mom. When she accidentally brings three ghosts—three members of a boy band that was on the verge of breaking out when they died—back, they discover that they can be heard when they’re making music. The actors commit to roles that require extreme suspension of disbelief, and they’re very wholesome and charming. The songs are generic but the lead is a great singer, and I ended up sobbing twice in later episodes because it skillfully played on my heartstrings. Obviously, premised on death of a parent, death of a teenaged child. Mild romance, no sex.

Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves: ( war and intrigueCollapse )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn: ( monstrous regiment?Collapse )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Tiger and the Wolf: ( shapeshifters without fandom tropesCollapse )
Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys: ( YA fantasyCollapse )
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi: ( drowned worldCollapse )
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future: ( ecohopepunk?Collapse )
Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit: ( romantic SFCollapse )
Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields:( unicornsCollapse )

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The New Voices of Science Fiction, ed. Hannu Rajaniemi & Jacob Weisman: ( yay new voicesCollapse )

Seanan McGuire, Laughter at the Academy: ( short storiesCollapse )
John Scalzi, A Very Scalzi Christmas: ( xmas storiesCollapse )
Rainbow Rowell, Attachments: ( big crusher is watchingCollapse )
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War: ( red v blueCollapse )
Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House: ( a different kind of fantasy for BardugoCollapse )
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black: ( Alice in Wonderland kicks assCollapse )
Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter: ( Sherlock Holmes x many fantasy/horror tropesCollapse )
Ada Hoffman, The Outside: ( there were AO3 style tags on the back cover, like autistics in spaceCollapse )

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Vid for me! Murdering Stravinsky, Farscape, lithiumdoll: YouTube, AO3

Look, ever since I realized that “dressing up as fascists” was perfect for this fandom, I’ve wanted this vid, and LithiumDoll does it great justice. The internal motion and even internal lighting changes are perfect for the disorientation and cruelty of the song. And there’s so many canonical references that are perfect—all the things they do that hurt others, and each other, by meaning to or by meaning to be good or both. The nuclear bomb and the beautiful, horrible wormhole equations that represent both art and death.

A very good bad review of a Netflix animated sff series, Love, Death and Robots.

Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue: ( political romanceCollapse )

KJ Charles, Proper English: ( f/f in high societyCollapse )

Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire: ( palace intrigue with colonialismCollapse )

Seanan McGuire, Middlegame: ( it's a chess metaphorCollapse )
Laurie Marks, Earth Logic: ( winning the peaceCollapse )

John Birmingham, The Cruel Stars: ( military sf, mostlyCollapse )

Robert Jackson Bennett, ( mid-colonialist fantasyCollapse ) 

Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream: ( more wayward childrenCollapse )
Ted Chiang, Exhalation: ( the best kind of sfCollapse )

Rebecca Roanhorse, Storm of Locusts: ( monsterkiller on the roadCollapse )

Theodore Sturgeon, Microcosmic God, vol. 2 of the complete stories:( misanthropy/misogynyCollapse )

Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish: ( Aladdin!Collapse )

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Aimee Kaufman, ( GeminaCollapse )

Yoon Ha Lee, ( Revenant GunCollapse )

Elizabeth Moon, ( Into the FireCollapse )

Rachel Caine & Ann Aguirre, ( Honor Among ThievesCollapse )

David Walton, ( The Genius PlagueCollapse )

Annalee ( AutonomousCollapse )

Seanan McGuire, ( Beneath the Sugar SkyCollapse )

Mur Lafferty, ( Six WakesCollapse )

Peter Watts, ( The Freeze-Frame RevolutionCollapse )

Charmed & Dangerous, various. ( Ginn Hale can writeCollapse )

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The Best of Subterranean, ( Read more...Collapse )
Urban Enemies, ed. Joseph Nassise: ( Read more...Collapse )
Claudia Grey, Defy the Stars: ( Read more...Collapse )
Women of Futures Past, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch: ( Read more...Collapse )
Leta Blake & Indra Vaughn, Vespertine: ( modern gay romanceCollapse )
Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones: ( Read more...Collapse )
Cherie Priest, Chapelwood: ( Read more...Collapse )
Sarah Kuhn, Heroine Worship: ( Read more...Collapse )
Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep: ( Read more...Collapse )
Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day: ( Read more...Collapse )Haunted Nights, ed. Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton: ( Read more...Collapse )

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( The Witch Who Came In from the ColdCollapse )
( BorderlineCollapse )

( Terracotta BrideCollapse )

( Superhero storiesCollapse )

( Terms and Conditions: the graphic novelCollapse )

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1. Lucifer is very satisfying to me right now. Maze and Chloe as roommates is exactly the fanservice I desired.

2. I love gothy covers of Sarah McLachlan’s Possession, but it occurs to me that they are a bit mansplainy. She did, after all, know that she was writing about a stalker.

3. Words cannot really describe how much I want a Farscape vid to Murdering Stravinsky.  Dining on each other! Dressing up as fascists! Killing off the past to make the future last!  Dancing on the coals!

( Elliott Kay, Seanan McGuire, Sarah J. MaasCollapse )

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( Holly Black, Seanan McGuire, Zen Cho: magic!Collapse )

( C.A. Higgins, SFCollapse )

( Mike Carey, The UnwrittenCollapse )
( Margaret AtwoodCollapse )

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( Daniel HandlerCollapse )( Sarah MaasCollapse )

( Cherie PriestCollapse )

( Ilona AndrewsCollapse )( Lovecraft (incl. Seanan McGuire)Collapse )

( Superman/Wonder WomanCollapse )

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