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Desperate Magpie, pushed to the brink after attempting all manner of “wellness” routines to keep her demons at bay, enrolls in an experimental virtual reality study.

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You’ll want to reread the last act of Harrow (or find a fan wiki) so that every clever reference really slaps and offhand allusion delivers the proper intended gut-punch.īram Stoker Award-nominated Gemma Amor is well known for her self-published horror fantasy novels including Dear Laura, as well as the creepy stories she’s penned for the NoSleep Podcast, but Full Immersion is her traditional publishing debut. But of course there’s a mystery, not just surrounding who Nona is but how she might change everyone around her. And “Returning” pairs up two immigrant authors, but when they ironically return to the husband’s (fictional) home country, the wife finds herself absurdly abandoned by her husband.Īfter Gideon the Ninth left us howling with grief and Harrow the Ninth had us feeling like we’d been the recipient of bone brain surgery, Nona the Ninth is a refreshing installment in the snarkily devastating Locked Tomb series: Sweet, unassuming Nona just wants to have her birthday party with her friends, despite her planet being on the brink of war and a bevy of necromancers, cavaliers, and resistance fighters operating under familiar and unfamiliar aliases. A “Los Angeles” home houses a woman, her husband and au pair, and 100 of her exes. The majority of the eight stories involve engaging with other people at a time when we readers may feel rusty and unaccustomed to doing so: There’s “G,” in which two sort-of-friends linked by little more than their shared identity as Chinese immigrants take an invisibility drug but have different approaches to fading away. Ling Ma’s debut novel Severance came to us in 2018, before we knew how badly we’d need it now, her eagerly anticipated follow-up Bliss Montage is a short fiction collection that seems ideally situated to the moment. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 13)

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Plus we’ve got climate change dystopia, VR fantasy horror, and a new collection from the author of Severance!

If your summer TBR stack was full of witches, mechas, and folklore retellings, get ready to spend the fall with… (bone) witches, mechas, and folklore retellings! Clearly we haven’t gotten enough of these compelling archetypes, and what’s truly exciting is to see how different authors approach each story in unique ways.

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