Happy Tuesday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and I’ve got new releases for you, both from the big pubs and the indies today. Looking ahead into the month, there aren’t a lot of new releases coming our way. But don’t worry, I’m going to be looking at some retrospective books to fill in the gaps! Stay safe out there, space pirates. Have a great week, and I’ll see you on Friday!
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Bookish Goods
Snow Is Falling Books Are Calling Shirt by AlbertAndellini
All I can say is that this shirt perfectly encapsulates how I felt when I woke up this morning to find it was snowing and cold. It comes in a wide variety of colors too, if you need to brighten up your day. $21
New Releases
After World by Debbie Urbanski
With the world environmentally collapsing, humanity turned to AI to find the solution. And AI did, indeed: remove humans, problem solved. Rather than violence, this removal means digitizing all of humanity and placing them on a new, virtual homeworld. Sen Anon is the last human to be digitized, and an AI is assigned to observe her last days. But while Sen struggles with her impending death, the AI assigned to her has a rather human problem of their own: they love her.
The Ruined by Renée Ahdieh
Conclusion of the series that began with The Beautiful.
The truce between the Sylvan Vale and the Sylvan Wyld has broken, and they are at war. Bastien seeks out powerful allies in New Orleans to protect the weakened Winter court. Celine is under the protection of the Summer Court, as is her mother, but it seems unwise to trust anyone. And with no word from Bastien, she decides to take matters into her own hands and stop this war herself.
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Riot Recommendations
There’s new indie books coming out this week, and here’s two to check out!
On the Isle of Antioch by Amin Maalouf translated by Natasha Lehrer
Alec has just settled on a remote island in the Atlantic, so isolated that he barely even has contact with his neighbor, a woman who wrote a book that developed a cult following. But when a power failure cuts them off from the world at large, it’s only the herald of more seismic shifts. Suddenly the world is on the brink of nuclear war, society seems about to collapse, and otherworldly protectors have arrived to cure all illness…and intervene in the US presidency.
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Six astronauts orbit the earth, the last mission to be sent to the space station before it is to be decommissioned. The story is not filled with danger or intrigue, but rather the ordinary lives of those hurtling around the planet at 17,000 miles per hour, working through their mission and watching their home far below.
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.