Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, coming to you with a couple more freshly-released books for this week and a bit of an author spotlight. And man, I’m all kinds of ticked off because I got my plants in the ground–it’s past Mother’s Day–and now some jerk of a meteorologist is predicting a ton of snow tonight? Burn a candle for my poor, sweet basil, if you would. Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Tuesday.
Let’s make the world a better place, together. Here’s somewhere to start: NDN Collective and Jane’s Due Process
Whatcha up to? Probably reading fantasy smut novels.
I’m trying not to throw too many t-shirts and coffee mugs at y’all since I know there are only so many t-shirts one can wear and so many mugs one can fit in a cabinet, but I could not resist this design. (Seen here on a t-shirt, but the shop does have a coffee mug version too.) Next time someone asks me what I’m doing on my phone, I can just point at my shirt in answer. $23+
New Releases
The Legacy of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
Every drop of Molly Southbourne’s blood once created a new copy of herself, one that wanted to murder the original. But the original is gone, and the clones have come together to build a home and try to escape their murderous purpose. But there are still more deadly secrets waiting, ones born in a Soviet lab during the Cold War, and they care nothing for peace that Molly desperately seeks.
The Emergent by Nadia Afifi
After the events of The Sentient, Amira Valdez’s danger is not past. She still has a strange neurological connection with the new leader of a religious fundamentalist cult, and he’s well aware of that–and experimenting with it. Amira must form an uneasy alliance with the scientist Tony Barlow after he sees to the birth of the first human clone–which may hold the secret to immortality.
Riot Recommendations
I’m incredibly excited to read the third book of Tade Thompson’s Molly Southbourne trilogy (start with The Murders of Molly Southbourne), so I wanted to highlight two of his other books you should definitely check out. He’s a Nigerian author living in the UK–and a doctor! Yet somehow, he’s got the time and brain energy to write these tremendous books. Strange Horizons did an excellent interview with him that’s worth reading.
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
I imagine you have heard of Rosewater, but just in case you haven’t, this is one heck of a start to one heck of a trilogy. Set in Nigeria in the fictional town of Rosewater, which has grown around the edges of an unknowable alien biodome, this book is a journey into the bizarre, where human and alien cross in unexpected ways and the dark history of a government agent points to a horrifying and beyond human future for the world.
Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
This book starts as a mystery, when a ship carrying a thousand people in deep sleep arrives at the Lagos system, only for the first of the crew to be revived to discover that some of the passengers will never wake. But there’s something far more sinister afoot than a mechanical failure, something that weaves together the politics of multiple far-flung systems, and the first mate and the investigator she called in are stuck in the middle of it.
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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.