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Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight — Aliette de Bodard

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Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight -- Aliette de Bodard

The Universe of Xuya

For reading order please see Aliette’s main page.

The Jaguar House, in Shadow – 2010
The Shipmaker – 2010
Scattered Along the River of Heaven – 2012
Immersion – 2012
The Waiting Stars – 2013
Memorials – 2014
The Breath of War – 2014
The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile – 2014
Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight – 2014
A Salvaging of Ghosts – 2016
Pearl – 2016

Standalones

The Dust Queen – 2014
Of Birthdays, and Fungus, and Kindness – 2019

Dominion of the Fallen

Children of Thorns, Children of Water – 2017

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Mission Critical — Anthology

By 5t4n5

Mission Critical -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2019.

Standalones

This is Not The Way Home — Greg Egan
Rescue Party — Aliette de Bodard
Devil in the Dust — Linda Nagata
Hanging Gardens — Gregory Feeley
The One Who Was There — John Barnes
By the Warmth of their Calculus — Tobias S. Buckell
Mutata Superesse — Jason Fischer & Sean Williams
The Empty Gun — Yoon Ha Lee
Genesong — Peter F. Hamilton
Something in the Air — Carolyn Ives Gilman
Lost in Splendour — John Meaney
The Agreement — Dominica Phetteplace
The Fires of Prometheus — Allen M. Steele
Ice Breakers — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Cyclopterus — Peter Watts

#scifi #aliettedebodard #peterfhamilton

The Starlit Wood — Anthology

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The Starlit Wood -- Anthology

Standalones

In the Desert Like a Bone (Little Red Riding Hood) — Seanan McGuire – 2016
Underground (East of the Sun, West of the Moon) — Karin Tidbeck – 2016
Even the Crumbs Were Delicious (Hansel and Gretel) — Daryl Gregory – 2016
The Super Ultra Duchess of Fedora Forest (The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage) — Charlie Jane Anders – 2016
Familiaris (The Wolves) — Genevieve Valentine – 2016
Seasons of Glass and Iron (The Glass Mountain/The Black Bull of Norroway) — Amal El-Mohtar – 2016
Badgirl, The Deadman and The Wheel of Fortune (The Girl with No Hands) — Catherynne M. Valente – 2016
Penny for a Match, Mister? (The Little Match Girl) — Garth Nix – 2016
Some Wait (The Pied Piper of Hamelin) — Stephen Graham Jones – 2016
The Thousand Eyes (The Voice of Death) — Jeffrey Ford – 2016
Giants in the Sky (Jack and the Beanstalk) — Max Gladstone – 2016
The Briar and the Rose (Sleeping Beauty) — Marjorie Liu – 2016
The Other Thea (The Shadow) — Theodora Goss – 2016
When i Lay Frozen (Thumbelina) — Margo Lanagan – 2016
Pearl (Dã Tràng and the Pearl) — Aliette de Bodard – 2016
The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle (The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle) — Sofia Samatar – 2016
Reflected (The Snow Queen) — Kat Howard – 2016
Spinning Silver (Rumpelstiltskin) — Naomi Novik – 2016

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Legends — Anthology

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Legends -- Anthology

Introduction — Stan Nicholls
Or So Legend has It — James Barclay
A Blade to the Heart — Gaie Sebold
Return to Arden Falls — Ian Whates
The Drake Lords of Kyla — Storm Constantine
A Tower of Arkrondurl — Tanith Lee
Who Walks With Death — Jonathan Green
Skipping Town — Joe Abercrombie
The Land of the Eagle — Juliet E McKenna
All Hail to the Oak — Anne Nicholls
Swords and Circle — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fairyland — Jan Siegel
Mountain Tea — Sandra Unerman
The League of Resolve — Stan Nicholls

#fantasy #gaiesebold

All Systems Red — Martha Wells

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All Systems Red -- Martha WellsBefore you begin this, do read Compulsory to get a quick introduction to our main protagonist, Murderbot.

All Systems Red finds Murderbot hired out to a planetary survey team who really don’t seem to be needing much looking after, after all, there’s no dangerous fauna or flora on this planet and all the members of the survey team are all nice and friendly.   So Murderbot spends most of his time downloading and watching all its favourite TV shows, that is until suddenly things start going very wrong and life threatening to the survey team he is supposed to be protecting.

On top of this, the survey team also find out that Murderbot has hacked its control unit and is, and never has been, under their control.

While only 1352 Kindle loc points long, this novella really packs it in and is just lots of that non-stop story telling from the get-go.   There’s a reason this book has so many accolades:

Winner: 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella
Winner: 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella
Winner: 2018 Alex Award
Winner: 2018 Locus Award
One of the Verge’s Best Books of 2017
A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller

Super good and now it’s straight into Artificial Condition, for more Murderbot adventures.

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