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Post-Cyberpunk Books You Should Add to Your TBR

Happy Tuesday, shipmates! It’s Alex, with your new releases for the first Tuesday of May and some links to check out. And–two days late, but happy May Day. Solidarity forever! Stay safe out there, space pirates, unite with your fellow workers, and I’ll see you on Friday!

Let’s make the world a better place, together. Here’s somewhere to start: NDN Collective and Jane’s Due Process


New Releases

Cover of Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire

Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire

Melanie is fragile and dying and seemingly destined to die; Harry doesn’t want to believe that destiny exists because it means he will lose the person who means the most to him in the world. But destiny has a very different plan for them both, a road that–if they can make it through alive–will lead them to a possible lifetime together.

Cover of The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara

The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara

King Rao was the precocious child of Dalit coconut farmers, who rose to become the most powerful tech CEO in the world–and then the leader of a global, corporate government. His daughter Athena must reckon with his legacy in a world still run by the Board of Corporations–in a very literal sense, as he has insisted on giving her access to his memories. With climate change ravaging the world, Athena must commit a radical act of communion if she’s to convince the Shareholders to save the planet.

Cover of Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Architects have returned after eighty years of peace, consuming entire planets and wreaking havoc across the galaxy–because this time, they have found a way to circumvent the Originator relics that once kept worlds safe. The Human Colonies, threatened with extinction, are casting about for any solution, looking for allies and arguing amongst themselves. An Intermediary named Idris, who would just like to run from his past, may be the one to save humanity–if he finds a weapon strong enough to do it.

Cover of An Unreliable Magic: A Hundred Names for Magic by Rin Chupeco

An Unreliable Magic: A Hundred Names for Magic by Rin Chupeco

Tala and Alex might have survived their brush with the Snow Queen, but she’s still out there, and she’ll be back to attack them again. The friends have a chance to make this confrontation on their own terms… but the world around them is only getting messier even before the Snow Queen returns.

Cover of Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz

Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz

Angus has tried to get his life back on the straight and narrow as he eagerly awaits the birth of his first child… but then he gets murdered by a man who’s in love with his wife, Gracie. Freshly dead, he finds himself in the afterlife despite never having believed in much of anything until now. And the afterlife is getting very crowded, thanks to a pandemic. But Angus still has a chance to reconnect to Gracie–and maybe get revenge.

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News and Views

Hey there’s a trailer and some more info on the Parable of the Sower opera!

In other theater news, the Royal Shakespeare Company is staging My Neighbor Totoro!

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The Women of Marvel podcast is back

On Book Riot

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Post-Cyberpunk Books You Should Add to Your TBR

Enter to win an ARC of The Darkening by Sunya Mara!


See you, space pirates. 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.