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NEW SCIENCE FICTION FOR MAY 2023

Check out these new science fiction books coming to the Adult Services Collection for the month of May. For a complete list click here.

SCIENCE FICTION BLACKGOOSE
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath / Moniquill Blackgoose

Revered as a Nampeshiweisit, a person in a unique relationship with a dragon, by her people, 15-year-old Indigenous girl Anequs, at odds with the “approved” way of doing things, is forced by Anglish conquerors to attend a proper dragon school – and if she cannot succeed there, her dragon will be killed.

SCIENCE FICTION COGMAN

Scarlet / Genevieve Cogman

In 1793, housemaid Eleanor Dalton arrives in Paris to aid a mysterious noble and his wife in a daring scheme and is swept up in magic and intrigue but finds there’s more to fear than ardent Revolutionaries when she stumbles across a centuries-old war between vampires and their fiercest enemy.

SCIENCE FICTION ISLINGTON

The Will of the Many / James Islington

To destroy the empire that executed his family, Vis Telimus infiltrates the elite Catenan Academy, a school that leeches away peoples’ Will — drive, strength and focus — and gives it to those in power, keeping his identity a secret from the Hierarchy to survive.

SCIENCE FICTION LEGRAND

A Crown of Ivy and Glass / Claire Legrand

Gemma, the only Ashbourne to possess magic meets the extremely handsome Talan d’Astier, the only survivor of a family who dabbled in forbidden magic.

SCIENCE FICTION PAOLINI

Fractal Noise / Christopher Paolini

On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII, there is a circular pit not of nature but design, and a small team must journey across the surface to learn who built it and why, followed by the ghosts of their past each step they take toward the mysterious abyss. 

SCIENCE FICTION TCHAIKOVSKY

City of Last Chances / Adrian Tchaikovsky

The tyrannical regime occupying the City of Last Chances doesn’t know that Anchorwood, a dark grove of trees outside the city, is a portal to strange and different worlds.