Tracey/Trinitytwo’s Favorites of 2015
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Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its sex and simulated violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic komodo dragons, the most challenging part of Koko’s day is deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends a squad of security personnel to murder her.
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Stone Song (e) | D.L. McDermott | PNR - Cold Iron 3 |
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Hunger for You (e) | A.C. Arthur | PNR - Shadow Shifters: Damaged Hearts 3 |
Earth Awakens | Orson Scott Card Aaron Johnston | SF - First Formic War 3 |
The Girl With All the Gifts | M.R. Carey | Dys |
Night Lords | Aaron Dembski-Bowden | F - Warhammer 40,000: Night Lords Omnibus |
California Bones | Greg van Eekhout | UF - California Bones 1 |
Written in My Own Heart's Blood | Diana Gabaldon | TT/R - Outlander 8 |
Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: The Novelization | Jim Henson | F |
Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company | Homer Hickam | SF - Helium 3 |
Memory of Water (D) | Emmi Itäranta | Ap |
The Leopard | K. V. Johansen | F - Marakand 1 |
Doctor Sleep (h2tp) | Stephen King | H |
The Windmere: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
The Suburbanight: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
The Audit: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
Night Beach: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
Reclamation on the Forest Floor: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
I Heart Dogs: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
The Human Society: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
Petty Zoo: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
Domestic Happiness: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
TruckDriver: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
Wife: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
The Last Living Summer: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
The Neighbourhood, or, To the Devil With You: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
Poor David, or, The Possibility of Coincidence in Situations of Multiple Occurre: Short Story (e) | Susie Moloney | H |
Fate of Worlds: Return from the Ringworld (h2tp) | Larry Niven Edward M. Lerner | SF - Known Space |
Scarred (e) | Caris Roane | PNR - Savage Chains 2 |
Shaman (h2tp) | Kim Stanley Robinson | SF |
Allegiance | Susannah Sandlin | PNR - Penton Vampire Legacy4 |
Bellman & Black (h2tp) | Diane Setterfield | Go |
Koko Takes a Holiday (D) | Kieran Shea | SF |
Julia (ri) | Peter Straub | H |
The Walking-stick Forest: A Tor.Com Original (e) | Anna Tambour | DF |
Shield and Crocus | Michael R. Underwood | F |
The Insects of Love: A Tor.Com Original (e) | Genevieve Valentine | SF/F |
Robogenesis: A Novel | Daniel H. Wilson | SF - Robocalypse 2 |
Doomed City | Jonas Winner | Th - Berlin Gothic 2 |
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Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction | Arthur B. Evans | SF - Early Classics of Science Fiction |
Chapter Six: A Tor.Com Original (e) | Stephen Graham Jones | Z |
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Headlong | Simon Ings | SF |
Declan (e) | Rae Rivers | PNR - The Keepers 2 |
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Her Klingon Soul: Star Trek Voyager (ri) | Michael Jan Friedman | SF - Star Trek: Voyager: Day of Honor 3 |
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Bliss House | Laura Benedict | Gh |
If England Were Invaded | William Le Queux | SF/AH |
A spectacular, modern retelling of the ancient Scottish ballad of Tam Lin—a beguiling fusion of love, fantasy, and myth vividly imagined and steeped in gothic atmosphere.
Their creed is "Mischief, Malevolence, and Mayhem."
Serafina Sullivan, named for angels and a brave Irish prince, is haunted by dreams of her older sister, Lily Rose, a sprite, ethereal beauty who unexpectedly took her own life. A year has passed since Lily's death, and now eighteen-year-old Finn and her college-professor father have moved back to Fair Hollow, her father's pretty little hometown alongside the Hudson River. Populated with socialites, hippies, and famous dramatic artists, every corner of this quaint, bohemian community holds bright possibilities—and dark enigmas, including the alluring Jack Fata, scion of the town's most powerful family.
Jack's smoldering looks and air of secrecy draw Finn into a dangerous romance . . . and plunge her into an eerie world of shadow and light ruled by the beautiful and fearsome Reiko Fata. Exciting and monstrous, the Fata family and its circle of strange, aristocratic denizens wield irresistible charm and glamorous power— a tempting and terrifying blend of good and evil, magic and mystery, that holds perilous consequences for a curious girl like Finn.
As she becomes more deeply entwined with Jack, Finn discovers that their lives and those of the ones she loves, including her best friends Christie Hart and Sylvie Whitethorn, are in peril. But an unexpected ally may help her protect them: her beloved sister, Lily Rose. Within the pages of the journal that Lily left behind are clues Finn must decipher to unlock the secret of the Fatas.
Yet the wrathful and deadly Reiko has diabolical plans of her own for Finn, as well as powerful allies. To save herself and to free her beloved Jack from the Fatas, Finn must stand up against the head of the family and her clever minions, including the vicious, frightening Caliban—a battle that will reveal shocking secrets about Lily Rose's death and about Finn herself . . .
Evocative and spellbinding, rich with legend, myth, and folklore, filled with heroes and villains, ghosts and selkies, changelings and fairies, witches and demons, Thorn Jack is a modern fairy tale and a story of true love, set in a familiar world, where nothing is as it seems.
The award-winning speculative debut novel, now in English for the first time!
In the far north of the Scandinavian Union, now occupied by the power state of New Qian, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio studies to become a tea master like her father. It is a position that holds great responsibility and a dangerous secret. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that once provided water for her whole village. When Noria's father dies, the secret of the spring reaches the new military commander . . . and the power of the army is vast indeed. But the precious water reserve is not the only forbidden knowledge Noria possesses, and resistance is a fine line.
Threatened with imprisonment, and with her life at stake, Noria must make an excruciating, dangerous choice between knowledge and freedom.
Kari, a young woman, returns to the jungle planet of Dora after ten years in Earth’s schools determined to unravel the mysteries surrounding the harpies, a feral species with the appearance half-bird, half-human.
The human colonists believe harpies are dangerous animals, which are known to steal women. The creatures are hunted like wild game, their wings considered rare trophies. But Kari distrusts these rumors. When she was attacked by a monster in the jungle as a child, a male harpy with rare golden coloring rescued her.
Constant hunting by men has driven the harpies to the brink of extinction. Is Kari’s savior, the elegant golden harpy, is still alive? If so, how long can he and his flock survive the ravages of mankind?
Susan Klaus's Flight of the Golden Harpy is an imaginative and romantic fantasy novel that questions what it means to be human.
For fans of Anne Rice, The Historian, and The Night Circus, an astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London
1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he is introduced to the drawing-rooms of high society and finds love in an unexpected quarter. Then, suddenly, he vanishes without a trace. Alarmed, his sister, Charlotte, sets out from their crumbling country estate determined to find him. In the sinister, labyrinthine London that greets her, she uncovers a hidden, supernatural city populated by unforgettable characters: a female rope walker turned vigilante, a street urchin with a deadly secret, and the chilling “Doctor Knife.” But the answer to her brother’s disappearance ultimately lies within the doors of the exclusive, secretive Aegolius Club, whose predatory members include the most ambitious, and most bloodthirsty, men in England.
In her first novel, Lauren Owen has created a fantastical world that is both beguiling and terrifying. The Quick will establish her as one of fiction’s most dazzling talents.
Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its sex and simulated violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic komodo dragons, the most challenging part of Koko’s day is deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends a squad of security personnel to murder her.
Heroes meets Bridget Jones in this brilliant, hilarious debut novel about a girl who just wants to save the world...
Bremy St James, daughter of billionaire Atticus St James, has been cut off from the family fortune and is struggling to survive in a world that no longer holds its breath every time she buys a new outfit. To make matters worse, her twin sister is keeping secrets, loan sharks are circling, and the man of her dreams — a newspaper reporter — is on assignment to bring down everyone with the last name St James.
Things are certainly looking bleak for the down-and-out socialite until a good deed throws her into the path of the city’s top crime-fighter, Dark Ryder. Suddenly, Bremy has a new goal: apprentice to a superhero, and start her own crime-fighting career.
Ryder has no need for a sidekick, but it turns out the city needs Bremy’s help. Atticus St James is planning the crime of the century, and Bremy may be the only one able to get close enough to her father to stop him.
Now all she needs to do is figure out this superhero thing in less than a month, keep her identity secret from the man who could very well be The One, and save the city from total annihilation.
Well, no one ever said being a superhero would be easy...
Marty is having a bad morning. Roused from slumber by a gang of polo mallet-wielding monkeys and a mysterious voice in his wardrobe, he must quickly come to terms with the fact that the world outside his door is now the world inside his head. Lying in wait amidst bleak, gloomy streets, deserted theme parks, and circus-themed nightclubs, lurks the oppressive shadow of a myriad of giggling, cackling pursuers, hell bent on throwing a custard pie or two into the works.
Assisted by a string of half-cocked schemes, a troupe of tiny unlikely allies, and (literally) the girl of his dreams, Marty sets out on a heroic quest to wake up and get out of bed.
Early reviews have compared it to Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. Equal parts epic, funny and dark, The Forty First Wink plummets headlong into the realms of askew reality, adding elements of the macabre, and squeezing in an unlikely love story for good measure. It will take you on a journey where not even the sky is the limit, and literally anything could be around the next corner. The question is, do you have the guts (and the sanity) to find out?
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