From this @BookRiot list of anticipated 2020 SFF books (bookriot.com/2020/01/07/202…) here are the 10 I find most interesting, but as iterations of my all-time fave, Janelle Monáe.
A PHOENIX FIRST MUST BURN, an anthology of #BlackGirlMagic--literally--edited by @whimsicallyours.
DOCILE by @KMSzpara. Body and soul sold for debt repayment caused by capitalist forces? Sounds [uncomfortably] familiar.
HARROW THE NINTH by @tazmuir. If anyone really needs this explained at this point, they're missing out already. But in @MiriBaker's words: "Lesbian Necromancers. That's it; that's all the explanation you need."
THE CITY WE BECAME by @nkjemisin. New York's five boroughs rise and band together to stop a growing evil. (Loved "The City Born Great" so I have great expectations for this one.)
RIOT BABY by @TochiTrueStory. Can these siblings-- one of them gifted-- survive a world already positioned against them? A taste of its gorgeous prose in this fab excerpt: tor.com/2019/11/18/rea…
THE GILDED ONES by @NaminaForna. West African inspired, with strong Dahomey Mino vibes (the all-woman force that inspired the Dora Milaje). Count me in.
PROSPER'S DEMON by K.J. Parker (aka, Tom Holt). Exorcists and dark comedy from a British author? Dirk Gently vibes, and I like what I'm hearing already.
GOLDILOCKS by @LR_Lam, described as "The Martian meets The Handmaid's Tale," and that's pretty much all that needed to be said to sell it to me.
UPRIGHT WOMEN WANTED by @gaileyfrey. I first read Gailey in @EAPodcasts' first issue of the now-on-hiatus @EditorZeta, and since then everything they've written has held up. I don't foresee any less with this one. An excerpt: tor.com/2020/01/06/rea…
FINNA by @ninocipri. Workplace hijinks, minimum wage workers and interdimensional portals. Just my kinda mix.
(So many books from @TorDotComPub! Janelle approves.)
Other forthcoming books not on the list but that I find interesting:
RAYBEARER by @jifueko, another West African jam. A young girl compelled by her own mother to murder the Crown Prince. An excerpt: ew.com/books/2019/08/…
GIVEN by @nandi_taylor. A young woman finds herself falling for a dragon kind, despite her best efforts. Tons of WA/ Caribbean influence and lore in this fantasy romance.
A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN by @rosiesrambles. Again, someone strikes a deal to murder a Crown Princess for his sister's freedom (Crown Princes[ses] are in high demand aren't they? Lol). By now, you can see my West Africa bias, can't you?
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