Several interesting titles in the Amazon.com daily deal.
Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames is
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This is a sequel to
Kings of the Wyld. Humorous fantasy set in a world where bands of warriors are equivalent to modern rock bands.
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is
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A classic. Maybe it leans towards the "literary".
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In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo — Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
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Prime Meridian by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is
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This is a near-future, mundane SF novella about a young woman struggling in Mexico City and dreaming of going to Mars.
It was originally crowdfunded and self-published, but this one is published by JABberwocky Literary Agency.
Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn is
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Warning: There's a sequel.
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A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she’s learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society.
Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn’t just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before. A culture of population control has developed in which people, organized into households, must earn the children they bear by proving they can take care of them and are awarded symbolic banners to demonstrate this privilege. In the meantime, birth control is mandatory.
Enid of Haven is an Investigator, called on to mediate disputes and examine transgressions against the community. She’s young for the job and hasn't yet handled a serious case. Now, though, a suspicious death requires her attention. The victim was an outcast, but might someone have taken dislike a step further and murdered him?
In a world defined by the disasters that happened a century before, the past is always present. But this investigation may reveal the cracks in Enid’s world and make her question what she really stands for.
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