Read PLATFORM DECAY by Martha Wells if you love you some Murderbot, Emotional Checks, rescue missions, enormous space stations, outlandish habitats; boats, trains & automobiles; strangers (ugh), juveniles (ugh?), watching your shows, your loved ones loved ones, pirates, and hot liquids.

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Read GLIFF by Ali Smith if you love very near futures, playing with language, befriending horses, undesirables, doing your best with what you have available, defining yourself, the act of naming, piles of books, erasure, surveillance, wording with words, picking through the rubble & rice pudding.

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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745579/gliff-by-ali-smith/

Read THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME by Ilona Andrews if you love epic fantasy, metafiction, portal fantasies, fanfiction, political machinations, regeneration, mistaken identity, kindness in a cruel world, turning your hyperfixation into a superpower, magical creatures, hot knights & making soap.

https://torpublishinggroup.com/this-kingdom-will-not-kill-me/

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Read BAT EATER AND OTHER NAMES FOR CORA ZENG by Kylie Lee Baker if you love ghost stories, sisters, the end of the world, looking racism in the face, crime scenes, Chinatown, dysfunctional families, blood & guts & viscera, not trusting your own mind, shadows, Pandemic narratives, and dumplings.

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/bat-eater-and-other-names-for-cora-zeng-kylie-lee-baker

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Read WOLF WORM by T. Kingfisher if you love stories about the desperation of starting over, being in the woods, the mind of an artist, obsession, mysteries, creepy crawling bugs literally everywhere, folktales & rumors, art supplies, questioning reality, Devils, body horror & really good biscuits.

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Read EAT THE ONES YOU LOVE by Sarah Maria Griffin if you love losing everything & starting over, lush greenery, decrepit shopping malls, impersonal digital spaces, empty & eerie backrooms, inescapable histories, decaying ecosystems, something rotting, something growing, something watching you...

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Read MOONFLOW by Bitter Karella if you love mushrooms and drugs and women and forests and cults and mushrooms and corpses and cats and women and gods and mushrooms and Gender and glitches and transwomen and corpses and blood and f*cking and mushrooms and mushrooms and mushrooms and...

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I had a wonderful time at Amal El-Mohtar's book reading last night for SEASONS OF GLASS & IRON! Look at that cover--it's gorgeous!

Some of the moments that stuck with me:

• Your artistic style emerges through what you're bad at, or by what you find comes innately rather than what you struggle with.

• Sometimes your best writing comes by being in communication with others.

• I love women 💜💜💜

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Read THE FACELESS THING WE ADORE by Hester Steel if you love beautiful islands, running away from your life, ancient mysteries, cults, manipulations, abuse narratives, eldritch horrors, fragmented reality, chrysalis & butterflies, figuring out where & how you fit, the rot beneath it all, the incomprehensible & lemons.

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Read THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar if you love fairy tales, love stories, murder ballads, riddles, the love between sisters, unwanted suitors, getting lost, swan songs, harps, grammar, conjugations, transformations, voices, willow trees, rivers, borderlands & changing course.

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