Must-Have Monday #92
Just four books to get us started this month – featuring queer Als, functioning utopias and charmed cupcakes!
Shall Machines Bite the Sun (Machine Mandate Book 6) by Benjanun Sriduangkaew Genres: Queer Protagonists, Sci Fi
Representation: F/F, queernorm world
Published on: 4th July 2022
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Thannarat Vutirangsee has won it all: she’s saved her world, married her perfect bride, and found her peace. She is meant to live the rest of her days in a fairytale.
But the machines are not done with her yet. Her wife Daji has breached the treaty between humans and machines, and for that she will be subjected to a punishment worse than execution.
Thannarat is not a hero. She is an artifact of war, a force of devastating annihilation. All she knows is how to fight. But to save Daji, what she will need the most will not be her gun or her might at arms . . . it will be a confrontation with her past, her mistakes, and a proof that she is more than an engine of violence.
This is the sixth installment in the Machine Mandate series, and I definitely wouldn’t start here – at minimum you need to have read Shall Machines Divide the Earth, the third novella, which features Thannarat!
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M. E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi Genres: Speculative Fiction
Published on: 5th July 2022
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By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.
Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.
As best as I can tell, the ebook edition of Everything For Everyone is out tomorrow, but the paper version isn’t being released until next month. I really hope I’m not wrong about this, because I seriously can’t wait to read it!
Flames Of Mira (The Rift Walker, #1) by Clay Harmon Genres: Fantasy
Published on: 5th July 2022
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An epic new fantasy in a world of ice, magma and magic!
Among the volcanoes beneath Mira’s frozen lands, people like Ig are forced to undergo life-threatening trials that bind chemical elements to the human body. One of Mira's most powerful elementals, Ig works in secret as an enforcer for the corrupt Magnate Sorrelo Adriann, but is cursed with flesh binding magic — magic that will kill him at the first sign of disobedience. His days are spent hunting down anyone who would oppose the magnate, a shell of his old self who clings to old memories and his budding friendships with the magnate's son and daughter.
When Sorrelo is overthrown in a coup and the country is thrown into chaos, Ig quickly learns he can do far worse than what Sorrelo has asked from him so far. If he can’t rediscover the person he was and escape the flesh binding in time, he will have to kill countless innocents as Sorrelo and his allies seek to reclaim the throne, or sacrifice himself trying.
This sounds like a really interesting premise, and I’ve been intrigued by what I’ve heard from early reviews. Not sure if it’ll be too dark for me, but I’m definitely going to give it a go.
The Charmed List by Julie Abe Genres: Fantasy, Contemporary or Urban Fantasy
Published on: 5th July 2022
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After spending most of high school as the quiet girl, Ellie Kobata is ready to take some risks and have a life-changing summer, starting with her Anti-Wallflower List—thirteen items she’s going to check off one by one. She’s looking forward to riding rollercoasters, making her art Instagram public (maybe), and going on an epic road-trip with her best friend Lia.
But when number four on Ellie’s list goes horribly wrong—revenge on Jack Yasuda—she’s certain her summer has gone from charmed to cursed. Instead of a road trip with Lia, Ellie finds herself stuck in a car with Jack driving to a magical convention. But as Ellie and Jack travel down the coast of California, number thirteen on her list—fall in love—may be happening without her realizing it.
In The Charmed List, Julie Abe sweeps readers away to a secret magical world, complete with cupcakes and tea with added sparks of joy, and an enchanted cottage where you can dance under the stars.
It’s not clear in the blob, but apparently both Ellie and Jack are members of a magical community that lives hidden amongst the rest of us? Which definitely made me perk up, along with the info that this book features food and drink infused with magic! I am always here for magic food.
Will you be reading any of these? Let me know!
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