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Get a First Look at Ho Che Anderson’s Stone, a Neo-Noir Tale of Basketball, Revenge, and Rebellion
In a not-entirely-unfamiliar world harshly divided along class lines, where elections are cancelled and the wealthy keep a tight hold on power, a young basketball star who just happens to be descended from the legendary rebel queen Boudica decides enough is enough. That’s the set-up for Ho Che Anderson’s new novella Stone, featuring gorgeous illustrations…
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Finally Some Good News: September Is Overflowing With New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
Movies are slowly trickling back into theatres, but a far safer option is to pick up one of September’s new books instead. And it’s a ridiculously bountiful month, with witches, warriors, time travellers, ghosts, robots, aliens, monsters, and space pirates to fire up your imagination without needing to leave the house.
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Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting Darkwalker on Moonshae
This first book in the Moonshae trilogy holds the great distinction of being the very first Dungeons & Dragons novel ever set in the Forgotten Realms. It also holds the distinction of having the series’ raddest, most evocative title. Unfortunately, the story itself doesn’t evoke much of anything — which, given that it’s about a…
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Star Wars Ventures Deep Into Thrawn’s Past in This Ascendancy: Chaos Rising Excerpt
In Star Wars’ current canon, we’ve seen Thrawn’s rise as one of the Empire’s most cunning Grand Admirals. Books have shown us how he left his homeworld and the unknown regions to explore “our” side of the Star Wars galaxy, but Timothy Zahn’s latest trilogy is delving back into that past, and Gizmodo has a…