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I don't know about you, but I'm finding everything really hard right now.

So today I come to you with free books. No code. No minimum purchase. No secret handshake. Just free books.

If you need a dash of hope, then maybe The Left Hand of Dog will bring you joy. www.whitehartfiction.co.uk/products/left-hand-ebook

If you'd prefer a story of women getting justice through any means necessary, then A Bit of Murder Between Friends might be what the doctor ordered. www.whitehartfiction.co.uk/products/between-ebook

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Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew is first and foremost a novella about space dragons, or at least one particular space dragon.

However, it is also about recovering from abusive relationships, building a family, doing and being more than others believe you can, and thriving in a universe where everything is built for beings of different sizes, shapes, and abilities.

If any of this resonates with you, or even if you're just in the mood for a wonderfully-written, bite-sized space opera, go and read Space Dragons: Luxorian's Crew! Space Dragons!

Skibidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

This is a novel so Australian that it goes from Milo to "no worries" to lamington in the course of a single paragraph.

Apart from that, it's kind of a typical crime novel following the investigation of a young teenage girl's disappearance.

The most interesting thing it does, in my opinion, is, among the chapters following various characters' viewpoints, adding "we" chapters that are meant to be kind of a combined viewpoint of the town's kids.

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My forthcoming novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR (Jan 2025) is about death, disability, ability, the complexity of culture, immigrants & the next generations, machines, AI, gun ownership, creative writing, the space race, so much more. At its heart, it's about the power of STORYTELLING. And it has a hell of an ending.

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What a rollercoaster!

Navola could not be more different than Bacigalupi's excellent despairpunk scifi, with the exception that it is also excellent.

The #SFFBookClub pick for October 2024

Counterweight is a nearish-future scifi thriller set on the island of Patusan, which I have just learned today has a long literary legacy.

The plot follows an unnamed employee of the LK Corporation as he attempts to unravel a series of events revolving around the world's first space elevator, erected by LK on Patusan. I enjoyed the originality of the setting, but I found the whole thing fairly convoluted and somewhat difficult to follow.

The dystopian corporation-state future where having a literal worm implanted in your brain is a condition of employment is becoming all too plausible at this point.

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I really like "kloms" as a shortening of kilometers

Read it at asteriskmag.com/issues/07/sins-of-the-children

Cascade Failure is an action-packed scifi novel about a ragtag spaceship crew of misfits that gets involved in Significant Events. It's snappy and engaging, but it's not heavy on horizon-expanding content - it feels a bit like a space-opera version of a Tales of the Ketty Jay novel

The #SFFBookClub selection for September 2024