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Emily Tesh: The Incandescent (Hardcover, 2025, Orbit)

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John Scalzi (duplicate): The Shattering Peace (Hardcover, 2025, Tor Books)
T. Kingfisher: Hemlock and Silver (2025, Pan Macmillan)
Nnedi Okorafor, John Joseph Adams: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 (Mariner Books)

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Vajra Chandrasekera: Rakesfall (Hardcover, 2024, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)
Thomas Sweterlitsch: Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Paperback, 2015, Headline)
Eve L. Ewing, Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado: The Memory Librarian (Hardcover, 2022, HarperCollins Publishers)

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reviewed The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi (duplicate) (Old Man’s War, #7)

John Scalzi (duplicate): The Shattering Peace (Hardcover, 2025, Tor Books)

One of the better Old Man War books

Scalzi has a really enjoyable writing style and in this case a pretty fascinating plot to go with it. In this one our heroine is Zoe’s best friend Gretchen Trujillo and her adventures snarking her way through trying to save a colony of 50k citizens from a death by… well, stranding. Her Obin sidekick Ran has a lot of good lines too.

At any rate, I enjoyed it a lot and would in fact recommend jt.

reviewed The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 by Nnedi Okorafor (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, #2025)

Nnedi Okorafor, John Joseph Adams: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 (Mariner Books)

The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s …

Mostly quite good

A few of them, especially at the front didn’t hit with me at all but towards the end there were some real bangers. I especially loved the final story “Ushers”. Pretty much everything past “Yarns” is very good in fact.

reviewed Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler

Ray Nayler: Where the Axe Is Buried (2025, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a …

Really interesting ideas, decent characters

This is almost a 4 star for me. There’s a lot of interesting and unfortunately prescient feeling technology surrounding governments monitoring and controlling their people (think China’s horrific “social capital” experiments). I am not 100% enthralled with the characters though somehow. But it’s worth reading for the ideas alone and the story is easily good enough to carry you along. Heck maybe even really good, depending on your preferences.