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All Hail the AI Goo

Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and here’s your last set of new releases for June! (What the heck? Where did this month even go?) I’m making this one a double dose, with the second set of new releases series enders that have come out this week. I hope you’ve stayed cool this week, and that you’ve got a relaxing weekend ahead of you! Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Tuesday!

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Let’s make the world a better place, together. Here are two places to start: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, which provides medical and humanitarian relief to children in the Middle East regardless of nationality, religion, or political affiliation; and Ernesto’s Sanctuary, a cat sanctuary and animal rescue in Syria that is near and dear to my heart.

Bookish Goods

Spilled coffee bookmarks

Spilled Coffee Bookmarks by ChameleonPrinting

Okay, these are hecka cute: little 3D coffee cups with the pretend spilled coffee to act as a bookmark! And I love that you can get a variety of coffee colors, so you can pick your favorite brew. $8

New Releases

Cover of Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba

Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba

María Lunurin is, to all appearances, a mild-mannered nun who serves the colonizers of her land of Aynila. She’s hiding her true nature as a stormcaller, the chosen of the goddess Anitun Tabu, desperately avoiding witch hunts and the ire of her patron goddess alike. She wants only to keep her people safe and protect the family she has built at her convent, but she cannot change the march of armies alone, nor can she ignore her goddess’s calls for vengeance forever.

Cover of Edge of the Wire by Scott Kenemore

Edge of the Wire by Scott Kenemore

The Goo, an AI network that anticipates all human wants and needs, has become an all-encompassing reality for humanity; no one can really remember a time before its existence. So when a new planet is discovered, the first order of business is for a crew of astronauts to be dispatched to wire that world into the Goo. But when the crew leader, Rowe, finds mystery after mystery barely buried under the planet’s surface, he begins to doubt his mission — and the Goo itself.

For a more comprehensive list of new releases, check out our New Books newsletter.

Riot Recommendations

Time for some love for new sequels…in this case, series capstones!

children of anguish and anarchy book cover

Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi

It’s here: the conclusion to the Legacy of Orïsha series! Zélie has the palace, but it didn’t end her battles like she thought it would. The maji rose again, and now she and her people are being sold across the sea to the Skulls. But what she finds is beyond slavery — the ruler of the Skulls has been pursuing her in particular, wanting to harness her power to make his own bid at taking over Orïsha.

Cover of The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O’Keefe

Seventh Cradle was to be Naira and Taquin’s home, their place of peace at last. But all too soon, Naira begins to see visions of a terrible future, and the settlement is attacked by mysterious forces. There is a plot to end the universe, and Naira may be the key to destruction or salvation.

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.