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Book Reviews: February 2020
This month, our reviewer takes a look at Juliette Wade’s Mazes of Power, Nino Cipri’s Finna, and the new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
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This month, our reviewer takes a look at Juliette Wade’s Mazes of Power, Nino Cipri’s Finna, and the new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
This month, reviewer Chris Kluwe takes a look at three new novels: Race the Sands, by Sarah Beth Durst; Knight of the Silver Circle, by Duncan M. Hamilton; and Agency, by William Gibson.
This month, reviewer Arley Sorg starts off with a look at a new novel from Tochi Onyebuchi: Riot Baby. For all of you short fiction lovers, he also dives into Ken Liu’s new collection, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, and the anthology The New Voices of Science Fiction (edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman).
This month, LaShawn M. Wanak reviews the final installment of Tade Thompson’s Wormwood Trilogy: The Rosewater Redemption. She also dives into Naomi Kritzer’s new novel Catfishing on CatNet, and Daniel José Older’s newest novel for adults: The Book of Lost Saints.
Chris Kluwe has been a reading machine! This month he reviews a rich mix: R.F. Kuang’s The Dragon Republic, Michael Mammay’s Spaceside, John Hornor Jacobs’ A Lush and Seething Hell, and Chuck Wendig’s Wanderers.
This month, Arley Sorg reviews Gamechanger, by L.X. Beckett; Sisters of the Vast Black, by Lina Rather; and The Twisted Ones, by T. Kingfisher.
This month, LaShawn peeks at letters in This is How You Lose the Time War, gets steamy in Pimp My Airship, and enjoys a heaping serving of revenge in The Rage of Dragons.
This month, Chris Kluwe reviews books about family: Claiming T-Mo, by Eugen Bacon, and Escaping Exodus, by Nicky Drayden.
This month, Arley Sorg reviews the novelZero Bombby M.T. Hill, and two works from authors whose short ficiton we’ve published here at Lightspeed: Vylar Kaftan (Arley reviews her debut novella, Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water) by ; and Sam J. Miller (who has a new novel called Destroy All Monsters).
This month, LaShawn M. Wanak will be reviewing The GamesHouse by Claire North, Middlegame by Seanan McGuire, War by Michelle West, and Terminal Uprising by Jim C. Hines.