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Category Archive: Bite-size Books

This Is How You Lose The Time War

Book cover: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max GladstoneTwo forces compete for control of the future. Their agents do battle through time to nudge every possible world towards the outcomes they need. But now two of their best have made direct contact. Now the war is for their hearts and minds.

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July 18, 2019 2020, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Artificial Condition: Murderbot returns

Book cover: Artificial Condition - Martha Wells (a suited figure stood against an amber cloud)Murderbot ventures out into the Corporation Rim. But how long can a rogue SecUnit with a hacked governor module escape the notice of the authorities?

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July 9, 2019 Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Books: The Black God’s Drums

Creeper wants to fly the skies in an air ship, but first she  needs to earn a place on a crew. When she overhears conspirators plotting to unleash the Black God’s Drums, she might have found the leverage she needs… if she can save her city from the natural disaster about to overtake it.

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March 8, 2019 2019, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Books: Static Ruin

Book cover: Static Ruin - Corey J WhiteMars Xi is the most wanted woman in the Empire: the renegade voidwitch who destroyed a planet. Desperate to give her protege Pale a future and hungry for answers about herself, she goes in search of the one person who might be able to help them both: her father. The man who sold her to MEPHISTO in the first place…

SPOILERS for earlier novellas
February 8, 2019 Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Books: Void Black Shadow

Book cover: Void Black Shadow - Corey J White (a woman in a space suit pictured head down with the impression of downward motion)Mars Xi evaded capture by the military research team who shaped her, and honed her psychic abilities into near god-like powers. But can she rescue her friend from a max security military prison before he loses his mind and his identity?

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January 18, 2019 Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Books: The Descent of Monsters

Book cover: The Descent of Monsters - JY Yang (a person in red robes and braids in an epic post standing on a dragon)After a slaughter at a remote research institute, Tensor Chuwan Sariman is assigned to find out what really happened. But her investigation is stymied at every turn – by the Tensorate itself. What were they really studying? What do the authorities have to hide?

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December 14, 2018 Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Books: Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach

Book cover: Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach - Kelly Robson (a person seen from above, in a white sleeveless tee and hair piled into a bun)Minh wants to rebuild the Earth. Kiki wants to be useful. The banks want easy, guaranteed profits. But with a bank funding an environmental research trip back in time to Bronze Age Mesopotamia, maybe everybody can get what they want…

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November 30, 2018 Bite-size Books, Reviews, SciFiMonth 2018

Bite-size Books: In the Vanishers’ Palace

Book cover: In the Vanishers Palace - Aliette de Bodard (a woman in peach clothing running down stairs - or are they coils - under a dragons watchful eye)The Vanishers left the world in tatters. The waters are poisoned, disease is rampant, lives are balanced against value and need. The elders give Yên to a dragon as payment for a healing; but what value can a failed scholar have to an immortal spirit? What need can an unwanted peasant girl fulfil?

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October 16, 2018 Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Books: The Citadel of Weeping Pearls

Book cover: The Citadel of Weeping Pearls - Aliette de Bodard (an Asian woman in flowing red dress sits on a dragon throne against a backdrop of stars and towers. Seriously gorgeous, this one)The Empress ordered her fleets to destroy the Citadel of Weeping Pearls and its ruler – her daughter – for fear of the weapons their unusual science was creating. But the Citadel disappeared. 30 years later, with war looming against an enemy who can turn their mindships against them, can the Bright Princess be found – and persuaded to come home?

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July 27, 2018 Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Books: The Fisher of Bones

Book cover: The Fisher of Bones - Sarah Gailey (a woman in red robes with a staff)A religious people on an epic journey, following their seer through the wilderness in search of a promised land. Sound familiar? It won’t be…

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May 11, 2018 Bite-size Books, Reviews, Wyrd and Wonder 2018

Bite-size Books: Cold-Forged Flame

Book cover: Cold-Forged Flame - Marie Brennan (a young woman holding a longbow, hair tossed by the wind)A people in need summon a woman by magic, binding her to their cause. She must fight her way across an enchanted landscape to win her freedom. She doesn’t know who – or even what – she is except strength and fury, so she has nothing left to lose …or does she?

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May 4, 2018 Bite-size Books, Reviews, Wyrd and Wonder 2018

Bite-sized Books: Buffalo Soldier

Book cover: Buffalo Soldier - Maurice BroaddusDesmond Coke fled Jamaica with his former comrades hot on his heels. He must cross an alternate America, where the Free Republic of Tejas, the Albion Empire and the Five Civilized Tribes may all offer sanctuary – or may seek to take advantage of the rare opportunity Desmond’s young ward Lij represents…

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April 20, 2018 2018, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Books: Passing Strange

Book cover: Passing Strange - Ellen Klages (two people dancing in a ballroom at night)San Francisco, 1939. Treasure Island glows in the Bay, a beacon for Man’s perseverance and ingenuity. The vibrant City itself is full of immigrants and free spirits, shielded from the shadows of war. Anything can happen in San Francisco: forbidden love, illegal shifts in gender, and maybe – when you really need it – some actual magic.

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April 13, 2018 2018, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Books: Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth

Book cover: Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth - Cassandra Khaw text title and silhouette of city skyline in redWho needs enemies with friends like Rupert Wong’s? Following his unfortunate involvement in dragon murder and celestial war, Rupert’s is being seconded to London ‘for his own safety’. But his new Greek employers are at war too – and nobody is betting on Rupert surviving it.

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April 6, 2018 2018, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-sized Books: Binti – The Night Masquerade

Book cover: Binti The Night Masquerade - Nnedi Okorafor (a black woman with blue tentacle hair looks at an object in her hands)As Binti struggles to adjust to the zinariya, she is overwhelmed by visions of her family in mortal danger. With no sign of Okwu, she and Mwinyi rush back. Can the master harmonizer who sits at the nexus of so many cultures bring peace, or is her legacy to be only conflict?

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March 23, 2018 2018, Bite-size Books, Reviews

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