Hi everyone, here are our recommended reads for the week!
*More information on the three catalogs and available formats is found at the end of the list of recommended reads*
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Here is our “Best of 2023 Science Fiction & Fantasy” post!
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The next regular recommended reading post will be up on Wednesday, December 27, 2023.
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A selection of the best Science Fiction & Fantasy novels of 2023; twenty titles instead of twelve as previously promised, as it was just so hard to choose just twelve titles! Enjoy!
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Cassandra In Reverse by Holly Smale
Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is 31, stuck in a PR job she hates, and struggling in her relationships because she cannot pick up on emotional cues. After a bad breakup followed by getting fired, Cassie has a meltdown and unexpectedly discovers the ability to travel back in time. Attempting to reset the present by changing the past, Cassie finds herself questioning if she can get it right or if she should be trying at all. From her on-point referencing of ancient Greek life and mythology as a pathway to understanding the world to acknowledging the frustration people feel with her to her seeing colors instead of perceiving emotions, Cassie’s quirks make her uniquely lovable. In her adult debut, Smale, author of the teen Geek Girl series, combines well-developed characters with laugh-out-loud humor as she slowly reveals truths about past events, current troubles, and her protagonist’s undiagnosed autism. Readers will be drawn into Cassie’s life and won’t want to leave. This neurodiverse tale is ripe for discussion and makes a great read-alike for The Rosie Project (2013), by Graeme Simsion; Oona out of Order (2020), by Margarita Montimore; and The Boys (2022), by Katie Hafner. – Starred Booklist Review
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The Deep Sky: A Novel by Yume Kitasei
A ship that left Earth 10 years ago, a crew trained to complete a single mission, and one saboteur hidden among them. Asuka Hoshino-Silva is one of 80 people bound for a far-off planet with the hope of starting a new civilization. After a rigorous training and selection process that began when the crew members were 12 years old, their spaceship finally launched, and they have spent the last 10 years in stasis. Upon awakening, they have found new troubles looming back home and old conflicts surfacing among themselves. For Asuka, this means she isn’t reading her mother’s letters from Earth and isn’t talking to her one-time best friend on the ship. Her problems get worse when Asuka finds herself at the center of an attack meant to sabotage the mission. With every crew member under suspicion, can Asuka uncover the truth, or will old alliances and rivalries tear the crew apart? The present narrative unfolds between flashbacks depicting Asuka’s early hardships due to climate change, tension with her Latine father and Japanese mother, and conflicted feelings about representing Japan on the mission, adding depth to the plot and creating a strong, character-driven, and accessible tale. There are no cis men among the crew members, all of whom are expected to be inseminated and produce offspring as part of the mission. They’ve been recruited from many nations, producing a refreshingly diverse cast that also realistically reflects real-world issues and conflicts. Can something new be built, or is the crew doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? Cerebral SF, tackling both humanitywide problems and the smaller but ever present conflicts closer to home. – Starred Kirkus Review
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The Future by Naomi Alderman
Alderman follows her global, breakthrough hit, The Power (2017), with a high-tech drama involving an eclectic group of characters, including a survivalist influencer, the daughter of a cult leader, and three tech moguls as the world undergoes a drastic change. Lai Zhen, famous for her savvy survivalist instruction videos, is captivated when she meets Martha Einkorn, who fled her father’s cult and eventually became the personal assistant to a tech guru whose social media network revolutionized the way people communicate with each other. Despite their chemistry and several passionate nights together, Martha ghosts Zhen, or at least that’s what Zhen assumes until she finds herself targeted by an assassin from Martha’s father’s cult, and her life is saved by AUGR, a program Martha secretly installed on her phone. Zhen goes underground and resolves to track Martha down, something that proves easier said than done. Massively ambitious in scope, Alderman’s latest novel takes some wild turns as it tackles themes as heady as wealth inequality, social media manipulation, technological advancements, and human nature itself, managing to be both critical and hopeful in equal measure.
HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Alderman’s fans and readers who relish provocative, headline-hot adventures will be ready to pounce. – Booklist Review
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Great Transition: A Novel by Nick Fuller Googins
Googins in his smart debut imagines a near-future where net-zero emissions are reached after catastrophic climate change. Larch and Kristina lose their loved ones to wildfires and preventable diseases, respectively, and fall in love after meeting as volunteers in a flooded New York City. They then start a family in the utopian city of Nuuk, Greenland. Fifteen years later, their daughter, Emi, laments their marital rift, which formed over their divergent political views. As the world is readying for a Day Zero celebration to commemorate the first day of net-zero, Kristina remains angry over past atrocities committed by “climate criminals.” Larch, however, is complacent with the new world. Not wanting to celebrate, Kristina volunteers to harvest crops in New York. Larch and Emi, meanwhile, attend the festivities and become entrapped in a terrorist attack. It turns out that those responsible for exploiting Earth’s resources remain alive and in power and will murder to keep it that way. Googins overlays an affecting family story on the speculative material, conveying Kristina’s disenchantment after she realizes the man she married wasn’t a fellow revolutionary after all. Climate fiction fans will enjoy this. – Publishers Weekly Review
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Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey
A desperate scientist. A selfish rogue. A caring child. And the fate of infinite realities. At the beginning of this multiverse-spanning tale, an unnamed narrator tells us we’re going to hear the stories of three individuals: first, Hadiz Tambuwal, an accidental genius; second, Essien Nkanika, an impoverished man willing to do anything to survive; and finally, Topaz Tourmaline FiveHills, a sentient rabbit whose choices changed the course of history. From that confident and intriguing opening, we jump right into Hadiz’s story. She’s a scientist working in a research station in Nigeria who can see the end of civilization coming and finds it terribly inconvenient that this collapse might interrupt her work. She’s looking for dark energy but instead stumbles on a way to hop into alternate universes. We soon learn that thousands of these alternate universes are governed by an empire called the Pandominion that invented cross-universe travel long ago and doesn’t care for people making unsanctioned trips. But with Hadiz’s Earth in the midst of civilizational collapse and environmental catastrophe, she’s left with no choice but to hop sideways to another Earth–and unknowingly set in motion a reality-altering chain of events. The result is sort of a space opera that never goes to space, instead spanning thousands of alternate Earths, including multiple Earths where evolution took a different path and the dominant sentient species is descended from rabbits, hedgehogs, or others of our mammalian cousins. The plot doesn’t map onto a traditional hero’s journey arc and feels all the fresher for it. Short, action-packed chapters keep the pace brisk, and each character we meet, however briefly, is vividly and empathetically drawn. A genuine treat for SF fans: an epic multiverse tale that moves like a thriller. – Starred Kirkus Review
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Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
DEBUT Torzs’s debut novel features a wonderfully realized and atmospheric world and a plot filled with unexpected twists. It takes place in modern-day Vermont, where a family plagued by tragedy, including two half-sisters, guards a collection of books that contain, and are themselves, spells. Esther, the eldest sister, is immune to magic, and her presence counteracts the protection wards over the collection. To save her sister, the books, and likely herself, she has fled and changes locations every year (living most recently in Antarctica). Meanwhile, in London, lives Nicholas, a scribe who inherited his family’s legacy of writing the spell books, as well as the burden of protecting them. But from what, or whom? Over time he learns the perceived danger might not be as he thought.
VERDICT Torzs does a fantastic job creating a gripping and suspenseful story that keeps readers on their toes and wanting more. Fans of The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo and The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern will love this magic- and suspense-filled novel. – Starred Library Journal Review
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Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man’s discovery will save or destroy us all.
Idris Telemmier has uncovered a secret that changes everything – the Architects’ greatest weakness. A shadowy Cartel scrambles to turn his discovery into a weapon against these alien destroyers of worlds. But between them and victory stands self-interest. The galaxy’s great powers would rather pursue their own agendas than stand together against this shared terror.
Human and inhuman interests wrestle to control Idris’ discovery, as the galaxy erupts into a mutually destructive and self-defeating war. The other great obstacle to striking against their alien threat is Idris himself. He knows that the Architects, despite their power, are merely tools of a higher intelligence.
Deep within unspace, where time moves differently, and reality isn’t quite what it seems, their masters are the true threat. Masters who are just becoming aware of humanity’s daring – and taking steps to exterminate this annoyance forever.
The Final Architecture Series
Shards of Earth
Eyes of the Void
Lords of Uncreation
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Murtagh by Christopher Paoloini
Murtagh and Thorn must defend Alagasia from a shadowy new threat in this sequel to Inheritance (2011). In an Alagasia that’s at last free from tyrannical King Galbatorix, Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn, cannot free themselves from the stain of association. As the pair hide their identities, Murtagh works to uncover the mystery behind a cryptic warning from Umaroth. Defending himself against an attack by informant Sarros, Murtagh is horrified to learn that a witch named Bachel has created an amulet that protects against even the Name of all Names. Seeking Bachel, Murtagh returns to Gil’ead, where he risks discovery by those who knew him from Galbatorix’s court. Werecat Carabel promises information about Bachel and her Dreamers if Murtagh rescues kidnapped werecat children. Murtagh and Thorn must confront the scars left by their enslavement by Galbatorix if they hope to succeed. Murtagh’s point of view is kept vividly distinct, and it contains a visceral anger over injustices that are expressed at a new level of intensity. He’s particularly protective of children in a way that wasn’t displayed by previous series protagonists. The psychological scars from both Murtagh’s enslavement and his childhood abuse are well portrayed and shape his characterization in meaningful ways. In a welcome change, Thorn is no longer merely a plot vehicle; with the intimate rider-dragon bond on display, a terrified, confused young dragon still learning who he is shares center stage. A much-needed follow-up centering a beloved character. – Kirkus Review
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Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel
From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive fantasy adventure.
This isn’t the kind of fairy tale where the princess marries a prince.
It’s the one where she kills him.
Marra — a shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter — is relieved not to be married off for the sake of her parents’ throne. Her older sister wasn’t so fortunate though, and her royal husband is as abusive as he is powerful. From the safety of the convent, Marra wonders who will come to her sister’s rescue and put a stop to this. But after years of watching their families and kingdoms pretend all is well, Marra realizes if any hero is coming, it will have to be Marra herself.
If Marra can complete three impossible tasks, a witch will grant her the tools she needs. But, as is the way in stories of princes and the impossible, these tasks are only the beginning of Marra’s strange and enchanting journey to save her sister and topple a throne.
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On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily Jane
When spaceships hover over Earth’s major cities for an extended period of time and leave without doing anything, humans struggle with the way forward, particularly a few beings that live in the Los Angeles area. The departure of the spaceships starts a domino effect for some, but this isn’t a novel about fighting the aliens or the politics of how to deal with them but about family and love. It turns out the aliens have been on Earth for the past 19 years and have created relationships against orders from the home planet. They aren’t sure what the future holds, but they want to protect their loved ones. Cats, television, and bacon all play important roles in the book; cats can perceive things humans can’t and are given powers that help the characters find their way, and the funny way television changes the aliens’ minds about their own culture is quite the commentary on our world. A compelling plot with some quirky features makes this book a great entry for a new sf reader. – Booklist Review
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Reformatory by Tananarive Due
When her brother Robbie gets six months at the notorious Gracetown Reformatory for Boys for kicking a white boy who said something indecent to her, Gloria Stephens is -devastated–and furious. Points of view alternate between Gloria, whose efforts to get Robbie released are aided by her elderly godmother, Miz Lottie, and Robbie, who suffers the horrors of Gracetown and its sadistic Warden Haddock. Gracetown is populated by more than the living, however, and Robbie has an unusual ability to see the haints of boys who died at the school. Haddock wants him to use his ability to help destroy the haints, threatening torture if he refuses, but the haints beg him not to, with a different kind of danger on offer if he assists the warden. Due brings the horrors of Jim Crow Florida to life, with human monsters who are far more chilling than anything supernatural. With fully realized characters and well-placed twists, she ratchets up the tension until the final, extraordinary showdown. Recommend to those who enjoyed Sarah Read’s The Bone Weaver’s Orchard (2019), LaTanya McQueen’s When the Reckoning Comes (2021), or Due’s short-story collection, Ghost Summer (2015), which features other tales set in the same part of rural Florida. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: A new novel from horror legend Due is always big news, so expect lots of interest for this one. – Booklist
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The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
DEBUT After he is separated from his shadow at birth, Fetter is without foundation. He’s raised by a messianic figure in a cult where summoning devils and murder are part and parcel of his education. As an adult, he flees to Luriat, a city on the brink of cataclysmic change, where he discovers a new obsession with the Bright Doors. No one knows what is behind them–some believe there are whole worlds, and some believe there is nothing–and Fetter grapples with the unnerving caste system as he digs deeper into the doors’ purpose. The threads of the plot are confusing at times, and there is a fair bit of info-dumping. That being said, this novel is driven by the worldbuilding, which is grandly elegant and immersive. Fetter is a relatable character who strays from his destiny, and his journey provides commentary on the threats of oppression and indoctrination. VERDICT Dreamlike and inventive, this unusual novel is a complicated read that ably pairs the mundane with the mystical. – Library Journal Review
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The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet Witch by Melinda Taub
Taub’s (Still Star-Crossed) adult debut reexamines Pride and Prejudice through a new lens with a light touch. Allowing Lydia Bennet to recount her own story, this retelling imagines that she is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter and thus born a witch. Also, Kitty Bennet is actually a cat that Lydia has bewitched to appear human. Jumping around in time, with witty asides and honest commentary, Lydia relates how she came to run away from home, why she ended up with Wickham, and more. Full of spell-casting garden parties, demons, hidden jewels, vibrant dances, backstabbing, and societal slights, this is vividly descriptive, frothy fun. While Pride and Prejudice has been retold from Lydia’s perspective before, her frank, humorous, narration of her own misadventures in Taub’s version adds a great deal, as does the magical intrigue. The concluding author’s note comments on the many influences, stories, and myths that fused to become Lydia’s story, including which bits came from Jane Austen and what Taub made up herself.
VERDICT A funny, lighthearted read recommended for those who love a retelling with a dash of magic and a witty heroine. – Library Journal Review
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Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Bestseller Moreno-Garcia (The Daughter of Doctor Moreau) takes readers behind the scenes of 1993 Mexico City’s horror movie industry in this powerful and chilling thrill ride. Lifelong film buffs Montserrat and Tristán have remained best friends since childhood, though their lives take very different turns, with Montserrat going into the underpaid, male-dominated audio editing space and Tristán rising to and falling from soap opera stardom. Tristán finds a similarly fallen friend in his new neighbor, Abel Urueta, a once legendary director whose career was destroyed by the unfinished mess of his last film. Abel claims the screenplay was written by Nazi occultist Wilhelm Ewers, who meant to use the film to cast a luck spell, but following Ewers’s sudden death the spell was inverted. Abel convinces Montserrat and Tristán that finishing the film with him will finish the original spell and bring them all luck—only for their endeavors to draw forth something very different from the dark. Combining real history with unsettling magic, Moreno-Garcia effortlessly ties explorations of misogyny, addiction, antisemitism, and racism into a plot that never falters from its breakneck pace. The narrative shifts effortlessly between fantasy, horror, and romance, helmed by a well-shaded cast. The complex female characters are particular standouts. This is a knockout. – Starred Publishers Weekly Review
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A Study In Drowning by Ava Reid
A young woman faces her past to discover the truth about one of her nation’s heroes. When Effy Sayre, the only female architecture student at her university in Llyr, wins the competition to design Hiraeth Manor for the estate of the late Emrys Myrddin, national literary figure and her favorite author, it is the perfect opportunity to leave behind a recent trauma. She arrives to find the cliffside estate is literally crumbling into the ocean, and she quickly realizes things may not be as they seem. Preston, an arrogant literature student, is also working at the estate, gathering materials for the university’s archives and questioning everything Effy knows about Myrddin. When Preston offers to include her name on his thesis–which may allow her to pursue the dream of studying literature that was frustrated by the university’s refusal to admit women literature students–Effy agrees to help him. He’s on a quest for answers about the source of Myrddin’s most famous work, Angharad, a romance about a cruel Fairy King who marries a mortal woman. Meanwhile, Myrddin’s son has secrets of his own. Preston and Effy start to suspect that Myrddin’s fairy tales may hold more truth than they realize. The Welsh-inspired setting is impressively atmospheric, and while some of the mythology ends up feeling extraneous, the worldbuilding is immersive and thoughtfully addresses misogyny and its effects on how history is written. Main characters are cued white. A dark and gripping feminist tale. – Kirkus Review
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Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline) performs a staggering feat of revolutionary imagination in this hopeful space-opera built from three interconnected novellas. “Settlers” opens on Destry Thomas, a ranger with the Environmental Rescue Team on corporate-owned planet Sasky, as she stumbles on a fiercely independent underground society, Spider City. Discovery puts Spider City at risk, while showing Sasky’s surface-dwellers a new possible future. In “Public Works,” a crew of bots and hominins grows from uneasy colleagues to found family while trying to design a planetwide public transport network. They’re undermined at every step by their corporate overlords, until they reach Spider City, where every being is a person, and a radical new solution presents itself. “Gentrifiers” sees a planetwide housing crisis bring together a sentient train, Scrubjay, and Moose, a cat journalist. As unrest erupts across Sasky’s big cities, Scrubjay and Moose race to lend aid, in the process uncovering a shocking secret that could be key to breaking the corporate stranglehold over the planet. Newitz masterfully grapples with questions of embodiment and personhood, exploring the power of coalition and the impossibility of utopia under capitalism. With the ethos of Becky Chambers and the gonzo imagination of Samuel R. Delany, plus a strong scientific basis in ecology and urban planning, this feels like a new frontier in science fiction. – Starred Publishers Weekly Review
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To Shape A Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
DEBUT The great dying had decimated the Indigenous population, and the island of Masquapaug, while considered part of New Anglesland, still kept much of its traditional life. Lost in the years were the dragons, the Nampeshiwe, but when young teen Anequs finds a dragon egg and the hatchling bonds with her, she is celebrated as Nampeshiweisit, one of her people linked to a dragon. Dragons used to live among the people and help dance away the autumn storms and bring bounty to the island. The Anglish that have conquered their lands have their own rigid ideas of raising dragons, along with their bonded. If Anequs doesn’t attend an Anglish dragon school, her dragon Kasaqua will be killed, so she agrees to go. In a strange land and school, surrounded by those who believe they are better than her, Anequs must not only prove that she and Kasaqua can learn what they need to control their power but also show they can do it as themselves.
VERDICT Blackgoose blends Indigenous history with fantastical beasts, taking themes of inequality and social agency in new directions. An excellent crossover novel for adults and young adults alike. – Library Journal Review
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Unraveller by Frances Hardinge
In a land where curses are real and binding, a young weaver discovers that teasing them apart is wrapped in unexpected consequences. Hardinge has a rare gift for crafting strange and original worlds, and here she’s in top form as she chucks two teenagers into webs of deadly magic and conspiracy in Raddith, where curse eggs are illegal but readily available to be cast by anyone out of spite or hatred. The journey takes rude, ill-tempered Kellen, whose unique talent for unravelling affects not only curses, but any woven garment or item in his vicinity, and his constant (in every sense) companion Nettle, seemingly “meek and inoffensive if you didn’t know her,” from the populous capital of Mizzleport to swampy wilds haunted by terrifying creatures to eldritch Moonlit Market (where everything, including memories and daydreams, is vulnerable). The author gradually brings Kellen (and readers) to an understanding that curses are not always undeserved, that those who bestow them may be damaged but are not invariably evil, and that perhaps we all have the capability to control the hatred that fuels them. Along with weaving in frequent desperate straits and near brushes with disaster, she embroiders her tale with memorable lines; a romantic subplot involving a rider bonded to a demonic horse and, by the end, even more so to his loving husband; and a cast of characters who are memorably distinct. The cast presents White. Brightening toward the end, frightening throughout, psychologically acute. – Starred Kirkus Review
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Witch King by Martha Wells
In this new high fantasy, Wells creates a vast fantasy world in which demons and expositors battle. When Witch King and legendary demon Kai wakes in an underwater prison, his immediate reaction is rage. With his partner Ziede and new friend, Sanja, he sets out into the world to find out who imprisoned them and why–and what it means for the politics of their world. Meanwhile, in alternate chapters, we start at the beginning: how Kai first became a central figure in the war between demons, witches, and the mysterious Hierarchs. As always, Wells writes exciting action scenes that pepper this expansive, vivid plot, though the writing sometimes gets bogged down in exposition and untangling the vocabulary of the Rising Empire. Still, the characters are bright and exciting, rooted by Kai, this villainous, pain-powered demon with a soft, loyal center, and the relationships that push and pull between these characters. High-fantasy fans will want to dig into this new, inventive world from one of our sf and fantasy masters. – Booklist Review
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Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
Winner: 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novella
Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series
In Where the Drowned Girls Go, the next addition to Seanan McGuire’s beloved Wayward Children series, students at an anti-magical school rebel against the oppressive faculty
“Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you’ve already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company.”
There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again.
It isn’t as friendly as Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.
And it isn’t as safe.
When Eleanor West decided to open her school, her sanctuary, her “Home for Wayward Children,” she knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldn’t save; when Cora decides she needs a different direction, a different fate, a different prophecy, Miss West reluctantly agrees to transfer her to the other school, where things are run very differently by Whitethorn, the Headmaster.
She will soon discover that not all doors are welcoming…
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Research Links:
Anders, C. J. (2023, November 17). The 10 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2023. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/11/14/best-science-fiction-fantasy/
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El-Mohtar, A. (2023, December 4). The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2023. The New York Times. Retrieved December 21, 2023, from https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/books/review/best-science-fiction-fantasy-2023.html
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Reif, S. (2023, November 6). Best Books of 2023: Science Fiction & Fantasy. © 2015 Powells.com. Retrieved December 21, 2023, from https://www.powells.com/post/best-books/best-books-of-2023-science-fiction-fantasy
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Staff, N. (2023, December 4). Books we love. NPR. https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#tags=sci+fi%2C+fantasy+%26+speculative+fiction&view=covers&year=2023
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Have a great weekend & happy reading!
Linda Reimer, SSCL
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