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Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, cult escapee Wynter Roth and ex-soldier Chase Miller emerge to find the area abandoned by the people Wynter was counting on to help locate medicine their gravely ill friend, Julie, needs in order to live. As hope fades by the hour and Wynter learns the terrible truth of the last six months, she is called upon once again to help save a nation she no longer recognizes—a place so dark she’s no longer sure it can even survive.
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Happy Tuesday, shipmates! It’s Alex with some new releases for you and such news items as I found interesting. If you’ve got some time and you’re looking for a laugh, the 29th First Annual Ig Nobel Awards were held on September 12th and you can watch the ceremony here. (If you just want the summary, File 770 has a list of the award winners.)
Oh and! Don’t forget to enter our giveaway of the year’s 10 best mystery/thrillers so far!
New Releases
A Hero Born by Jin Yong – A wuxia novel from the master, Jin Yong, available for the first time in the US. After the murder of his father, Guo Jing and his mother flee to join Genghis Khan. Later, under the guidance of the Seven Heroes of the South, Guo Jin returns to China to fulfill his destiny.
Gamechanger by L.X. Beckett – Rubi is a public defender in the Bounceback generation, the first generation to be free of the troubles of the 21st century. But when she’s assigned to help Luce, she has to figure out why he’s been targeted by the governments of the world–and why he seems determined to stop the global recovery.
Chilling Effect by Valeria Valdes – After Captain Eva Innocente’s sister Mira is kidnapped by the Fridge, a shadowy criminal syndicate that holds people in cryostasis, Eva must undertake a series of missions across the galaxy to pay the ransom–including one that includes psychic cats.
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson – Just what it says on the tin. Mary Shelley is often credited as the writer of the first science fiction novel, but she wasn’t alone in the genre. This book explores the fascinating lives of women who were on the cutting edge of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
News and Views
NBC has made six short episodes for The Good Place set at the end of season 3. You can watch them at NBC’s site or on their app.
The cutest thing I’ve seen all week: A Detroit high school allowing seniors to cosplay for their IDs.
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak is being adapted for Netflix.
We’ve got a great list of Dragon Books for Grown-ups!
Hulu’s Castle Rock has a trailer out for season 2.
HBO is apparently ordering a pilot for a Game of Thrones prequel about the Targaryens.
Carnival Row has an official TTRPG that you can download for free.
The Wheel of Time has started filming in Prague and they took a super cute cast photo.
From the Department of This Is the Stage of Dystopian Capitalism We Are Now In So Writers Keep That In Mind: KFC is making a Colonel Sanders dating sim that looks upsettingly cute. One of the characters is a deep fryer. No, really.
A long but fascinating read: The search for a warning that lasts as long as nuclear waste. Which of course immediately makes me think of The Only Harmless Great Thing.
I’m a geologist, so that means you get cool geology things when I see them. Like this article about the geology of the Chicxulub Crater.
See you, space pirates. You can find all of the books recommended in this newsletter on a handy Goodreads shelf. If you’d like to know more about my secret plans to dominate the seas and skies, you can catch me over at my personal site.