"This Is How You Lose The Time War", by Amar El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (2019) was on month's readings from the Urania Collections (Mondadori); a wonderful reading indeed, imho, too.
Others was "Darkover Landfall", by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1972,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkover_Landfall), I'd liked much this too.
“Steal Across the Sky” by Nancy Kress (2009), I don't know why, but to me was a hard reading, perhalps I don't like telephaty/ESP themes (didn't liked much even, time ago, Ubik by Philip Dick).
On July usually there is an anthology, and it was "Infinite Stars" by Bryan Thomas (2017): a collection of short, or short-short stories with a space opera and military themes, seriously fantastic.
I'd liked almost all, specially Orson Scott Card part of "Ender's Game" (didn't knew it's a movie, also);
"The Game of Rat and Dragon (1955,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ga...Rat_and_Dragon, here is quoted as William C. Dietz the author)
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Dragons can only be destroyed by very strong light, but they move too fast for conventional defense methods. Telepathic humans and telepathic cats (who perceive the dragons as rats) are able to sense the creatures within milliseconds. The humans and cats work together as teams to protect interstellar spaceships traveling via planoforming (a type of faster than light speed travel).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkos...nity_(novella)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binti_(novella), nice sci-fi from Nigeria.
"How to Be a Barbarian in the Late 25th Century" is a sub-genre I wasn't to know, called
sword and planet; nice and warm read too.
The complete list of included shorts is in there:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?632351
Month's reading includes a special which is a 542 pages book (at the moment isn't translated), stories build after 13 authors interviewed scientists and researches from IIT (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istitu..._di_Tecnologia), yet to start it right now
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Edith: typos and links.