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John Scalzi, Constituent Service: Lightweight novella about a human doing civic service in a district made mostly of nonhumans.
Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl: ( I discover litRPG )
Rachel Haimowitz, Anchored : ( m/m romance in slavery )
Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant: ( lots more bastards to kill )
Ursula Whitcher, North Continent Ribbon: Series of short stories set on or around a planet colonized by humans and still struggling with the human relationship with machines and machine intelligences, as well as what happens when you put human minds in nonhuman bodies. Fine, though the short story form makes it hard for me to really bond with characters. I noted that one story was actually published as an Original Work on AO3, which is the first time I’ve seen that particular credit!
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, ( romances with witches )
James Alan Gardner, They Promised Me the Gun Wasn’t Loaded: Second in a hoped-for series about newly superpowered university students, this time from the perspective of Jools, the screwup of the bunch, who now knows everything that a human can do and can do anything that the best human can do. When Jools becomes entangled with an attempt to auction off—and then steal—a supervillain weapon, she’ll have to fight her insecurities as well as a bunch of villains and self-styled heroes, including one whose Robin Hood schtick includes a glamor that gets women to want to have sex with him.
A.D. Sui, The Dragonfly Gambit: Novella about sapphic fighter pilots in a collapsing space empire. The protagonist was in a horrific accident that left her without a lover or the ability to fly, and left her a rebel; she’s forced back into service, where she finds her former lover now splitting her affections between the Third Daughter (head of the military) and the intelligence officer who’s forcing the protagonist to work for the empire. But the Third Daughter is really hot, oh no—will that complicate the protagonist’s desire for revenge?
Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl: ( I discover litRPG )
Rachel Haimowitz, Anchored : ( m/m romance in slavery )
Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant: ( lots more bastards to kill )
Ursula Whitcher, North Continent Ribbon: Series of short stories set on or around a planet colonized by humans and still struggling with the human relationship with machines and machine intelligences, as well as what happens when you put human minds in nonhuman bodies. Fine, though the short story form makes it hard for me to really bond with characters. I noted that one story was actually published as an Original Work on AO3, which is the first time I’ve seen that particular credit!
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, ( romances with witches )
James Alan Gardner, They Promised Me the Gun Wasn’t Loaded: Second in a hoped-for series about newly superpowered university students, this time from the perspective of Jools, the screwup of the bunch, who now knows everything that a human can do and can do anything that the best human can do. When Jools becomes entangled with an attempt to auction off—and then steal—a supervillain weapon, she’ll have to fight her insecurities as well as a bunch of villains and self-styled heroes, including one whose Robin Hood schtick includes a glamor that gets women to want to have sex with him.
A.D. Sui, The Dragonfly Gambit: Novella about sapphic fighter pilots in a collapsing space empire. The protagonist was in a horrific accident that left her without a lover or the ability to fly, and left her a rebel; she’s forced back into service, where she finds her former lover now splitting her affections between the Third Daughter (head of the military) and the intelligence officer who’s forcing the protagonist to work for the empire. But the Third Daughter is really hot, oh no—will that complicate the protagonist’s desire for revenge?