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The #SFFBookClub pick for June 2025
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The #SFFBookClub pick for June 2025
Never tell a workplace or a lover anything that might cause them to terminate your relationship until you’re ready to leave.
Content warning alcohol
She came back with a glass of chilled red wine, which I hadn’t realized was a drink you could get on purpose.
Perhaps he’ll die this time.
The #SFFBookClub selection for May 2025
I really dig the premise, but the execution bothered me a lot. Maybe they were just trying to do too much in a novella length, or maybe it's just me, but everything just felt rushed and clumsy. 🤷
It had been a productive day. Too productive.
— Countess by Suzan Palumbo
mood
Space colonization had not been the great equalizer the capitalist billionaires had advertised.
— Countess by Suzan Palumbo
Acting Captain Virika Sameroo abandoned her seat and stood ramrod stiff behind the Oestra’s navigator after it jolted through the Invictan region skip gate.
— Countess by Suzan Palumbo
The #SFFBookClub pick for April 2025
These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart is a vignette about working through guilt and self-loathing toward self-forgiveness.
There's a lot going on in terms of themes: gender, transhumanism, anarchy and fascism, cloning, all mixed into a more standard crime plot.
Although the main thread is satisfactorily wrapped up, there's definitely room to explore the world further - I want more Dora!
I hadn’t seen Juan in years, not since I left the commune.
— These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
The #SFFBookClub pick for March 2025.
A very different book than The Space between Worlds, but equally good.
While TSBW kind of revolved around the interworld travel premise, Those Beyond the Wall is firmly rooted in "Earth 0"'s Ashtown. Mr. Scales has a wildly different perspective on the Ashtown oligarchy and culture than Cara did, and it's kind of fascinating to see some of the blind spots the author built in. Despite the very different plot foci, there are similar strong themes of antifascism, anticolonialism, and the struggle for justice.
It's even more gritty than the original, yet potentially more hopeful as well.
I would strongly recommend reading TSBW first, because a lot of the setting is taken for granted here.
Stories should never be believed, but they should always be trusted.
— Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)