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Speculative Fiction Showcase: Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adve...

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adve...:   Release date: April 1, 2018 Subgenre: Steampunk mystery
 About Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures :
Captain Marta Ramos, the most notorious pirate in the Duchy of Denver, has her hands full between fascinating murder mysteries, the delectable and devious Delilah Nimowitz, Colonel Geoffrey Douglas (the Duke of Denver’s new head of security), a spot of airship engineering and her usual activities: piracy, banditry and burglary. Not to mention the horror of high society tea parties. In contrast, Simms, her second in command, longs only for a quiet life, filled with tasty sausages and fewer explosions. Or does he? Join Captain Ramos, Simms and their crew as they negotiate the perils of air, land and drawing room in a series of fast-paced adventures in a North America that never was.

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Blood Lore (The Medici Chronicles, Book 2) by Erme...

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Blood Lore (The Medici Chronicles, Book 2) by Erme...: Release date: April 15, 2018 Subgenre: YA Fantasy

 About Blood Lore :    You are always welcome to come home… aren’t you?
After five years of hard study, Mika has achieved the rank of Journeyman Medici. Few know that she is a girl pretending to be a boy in the male dominated world of Ackbarr. Far fewer know of the animal concealed beneath her skin.

Searching for any knowledge of her kind, she is determined to travel back to Cassai. The forests of her childhood are seductive, calling to the memories buried deep within but she discovers that her world has moved on without her. Or maybe it never was as she remembers.

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Scylla and Charybdis by Lindsey Duncan

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Scylla and Charybdis by Lindsey Duncan:   Release date: April 15, 2018 Subgenre: Space opera

About Scylla and Charybdis:

Anaea Carlisle, raised on an isolated space station populated solely by women, believes the rest of the universe has been plunged into anarchy and ruin by an alien-engineered disease known as Y-Poisoning.  On a salvage mission, she helps rescue a hypermental named Gwydion who challenges everything she thought she knew..

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for April 13...

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for April 13...: It's time for the weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with  The City and the City, The Expanse, Lost in Space, Star Trek Discovery, A Quiet Place as well as the usual mix of awards news, writing advice, interviews, reviews, con reports, crowdfunding campaigns, science articles, free online fiction and much more.

Speculative Fiction Showcase: hypnoSnatch (Xeno Relations, Book 1) by Trisha McN...

Speculative Fiction Showcase: hypnoSnatch (Xeno Relations, Book 1) by Trisha McN...: Release date: March 11, 2018 Subgenre: Humorous Science Fiction, Alien Contact  About hypnoSnatch :   In the far future, young human Antaska travels to outer space with a gigantic alien. She brings her psychic cat along. Mischievous but evil part-reptile humanoids team up with Antaska’s nemesis--a genetically enhanced fitness instructor--to take revenge on her, but a dangerous alien kidnaps her and spoils their plans. Love and its dark side meet in this fast-paced science fiction dark comedy.

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Freedom's Horizon (In Love and War, Book 4) by Cor...

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Freedom's Horizon (In Love and War, Book 4) by Cor...: Release date: March 28, 2018 Subgenre: Space opera, Science fiction romance

About Freedom's Horizon:
Once, Anjali Patel and Mikhail Grikov were soldiers on opposing sides of an intergalactic war. They met, fell in love and decided to go on the run together.

Now Anjali and Mikhail are trying to eke out a living on the independent worlds of the galactic rim, while attempting to stay under the radar of those pursuing them.

Speculative Fiction Showcase: The Big Bumper Felapton Digest 2017 by Camestros F...

Speculative Fiction Showcase: The Big Bumper Felapton Digest 2017 by Camestros F...: Release date: April 7, 2018 Subgenre: Non-fiction collection, humor  About The Big Bumper Felapton Digest 2017 :   An exciting compilation of essay, pictures and nonsense from the 2018 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Fanwriter, Camestros Felapton. Featuring Timothy the Talking Cat and Susan Triceracopter, the collection is a meandering sample of posts from the eponymous blog camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com. Covering topics such as The Last Jedi, Doctor Who and the sureal politics of 2017, the digest is Lancashire hotpot of gravy, potatoes and strange bits of meat in a tasty gravy. Enjoy! 

Speculative Fiction Showcase: 300 Degree Days and Other Stories by Deborah Sheld...

Speculative Fiction Showcase: 300 Degree Days and Other Stories by Deborah Sheld...: Release date: February 16, 2018 Subgenre:  Short fiction collection About 300 Degree Days and Other Stories :          ‘Sheldon’s stories lift the skin of small, suburban lives to expose the raw nerves beneath. Her writing is intimate, compelling and alarming…’ – The Short Review, UK.

Sometimes, the ties that bind are sharp enough to cut. In these eleven stories, set in contemporary Australian suburbia, Deborah Sheldon examines the darker side of family relationships. Unsettling and incisively written, each story of betrayal, envy, loss or bad blood resonates for a long time after reading.

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Interview with Deborah Sheldon, author of 300 Degr...

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Interview with Deborah Sheldon, author of 300 Degr...: Today on the Speculative Fiction Showcase, we're delighted to interview Deborah Sheldon, whose collection of short fiction, 300 Degree Days & Other Stories, was recently published by Oscillate Wildly Press.

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for April 6,...

Speculative Fiction Showcase: Speculative Fiction Links of the Week for April 6,...: It's time for the weekly round-up of interesting links about speculative fiction from around the web, this week with  Lost in Space, Ready Player One, 2001: A Space Odyssey at fifty, The Quiet Place, the 2018 Hugo Award finalists and the 1943 Retro Hugo Award finalists as well as the usual mix of awards news, writing advice, interviews, reviews, con reports, crowdfunding campaigns, science articles, free online fiction and much more.