2016 Reading List Update #1
My extra-curricular reading has been very slow lately. I’m actually still on the early bits of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84. A rock solid read so far, I just can’t seem to scrounge up enough reading time between working, writing, and school. To be more accurate, time management isn’t the problem, just that my brain is pretty much shot by the time I finally get around to reading for fun.
Even so, the reading list keeps growing.
The following are a few absolute gems that are waiting in the wings to be thoroughly read:
Binti
Blurb:
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti’s stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.
If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself — but first she has to make it there, alive.
Woman of the Woods
Blurb:
The latest Sword and Soul novel by Milton Davis returns to the land of Meji, the amazing world of Uhuru.
It tells the story of Sadatina, a girl on the brink of becoming a woman living with her family in Adamusola, the land beyond the Old Men Mountains.
But tragic events transpire that change her life forever, revealing a hidden past that leads her into the midst of a war between her people and those that would see them destroyed, the Mosele.
Armed with a spiritual weapon and her feline ‘sisters,’ Sadatina becomes a Shosa, a warrior trained to fight the terrible nyokas, demon-like creatures that aid the Mosele in their war against her people.
Ascension: A Tangled Axon Novel
Blurb:
Alana Quick is the best damned sky surgeon in Heliodor City, but repairing starship engines barely pays the bills. When the desperate crew of a cargo vessel stops by her shipyard looking for her spiritually-advanced sister Nova, Alana stows away.
Maybe her boldness will land her a long-term gig on the crew. But the Tangled Axon proves to be more than star-watching and plasma coils. The chief engineer thinks he’s a wolf. The pilot fades in and out of existence.
The captain is all blond hair, boots, and ego . . . and Alana can’t keep her eyes off her.
But there’s little time for romance: Nova’s in danger and someone will do anything—even destroying planets—to get their hands on her!
Wool – Omnibus Edition
Blurb:
This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden.
But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism.
Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.
The Grove
Blurb:
Hain, a sentient plant creature, defies instinct and genetic imperative by holding herself separate from the planet-encompassing vegetative super-intelligence known as the Mother. Hain wants to explore the stars but when she finally encounters aliens, her destiny is forever changed.
Strangelet, Volume 2, Issue 1
Various Authors, Strangelet Journal
Blurb:
Year 2 of Strangelet begins! Women Writing Women: Transformations.
A collection of women writers and poets writing about women transforming.
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