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Great day for #SFF launches today @OutWestBooks.

💙📚🪐 #SFF Just finished listening to audiobook Departure 37 by Scott Carson. It's an enthralling science fiction thriller set in 2025 and times in the 20th century involving time travel, military secrets, and family over generations.

List - SFF Trifecta Winners Books that have won Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Out of 21 books that have won. Two Colorado authors, Connie Willis (2 in 1 year) and Paolo Bacigalupi are on the list. Connie Willis twice! Paolo gr...

I love it that libraries do so many wonderful things for readers in addition to loaning out stories across a multitude of ways including paper, digital, audio... Here is a library list of the #SFF Trifecta winners. Support public libraries.
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Just finished reading Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao the 2025 winner of Canada's Aurora Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy for Heavenly Tyrant. Action packed with fascinating world building and foot binding bits that brought to mind Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See. #SFF 📚🪐

What trends are you seeing?

🪐💙📚 Only 11 new SF novels in August. Que lastima. Fortunately one of them is my favorite SF story of year (so far). Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz is the kind of story that is helping me live with all the sadness and contemporary malfunctions of society. Thanks ‪@reactorsff.bsky.social‬

All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in August 2025 - Reactor Student magicians, princes, mercenary mages, and healers all appear in August's new fantasy releases…

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Good month for fantasy with books from T. Kingfisher & Charlie Jane Anders releases next week. Louis Sacher's 1st adult fantasy last week.

get Oliver to break up with her friend who wants a love match rather than one honoring an agreement between two fathers over a real estate issue. An enjoyable read and much more fun than watching re-reruns of Bridgerton for the upteenth time.

💙📚🌶️ In indie bookstores and libraries today. My Best Friend's Earl by Bethany Bennett. Instead of matchmaking, this Regency era romance casts a bookseller as a matchbreaker who tries to free a friend from a long arranged engagement. Constance, walking a cat on a leash in Hyde Park, attempts to ⏩

I'll never forget the panel by Canadian authors at WorldCon one year in the distant past when they discussed why so much great SF was coming out of Canada. Just placed holds on the novel winners at my local public library. 🪐📚💙

I think the last DragonCon I went to was 2019. Overwhelming crowds of people. I can't handle the crowds but I sure loved the panels. Glad I had a platform with Susan Fichtelberg and Bonnie Kunzel to share the best #SFF books of the year.

🪐📚💙 #SFF Finished reading Dungeon Crawler Carl today. Vastly entertaining. Nice that Ace is also printing the series in large print.

💙📚🪐 #SFF Finished reading Kill the Beast by Serra Swift. Excellent debut fantasy. Lyssa a hunter of monsters has vowed to avenge her brother who was killed by the Beast. Terrific world building and full of surprises. Publication date 10/14/25. Seems like lots of great fantasy coming out this year.

💙📚🪐 Terrific time at the bookstore today. #SFF was hot! Hand sold a copy of Automatic Noodle before it even made it to the new books shelf. Could have sold 3 copies of Infinity Gate but only had 2. Water Knife, Enchanted Greenhouse, Murder by Memory, Spellshop, and more all went home w/readers.

young princess of the kingdom and he recognizes the sadistic prince as the man who had killed the love of his life. The first 200 pages have everything a fantasy novel should, magic, stalwart companions, a bit of romance, smart characters, and an evil antagonist and goes into a literary vein.

🪐📚💙 #sff The Magician of Tiger Castle is in bookshops and libraries today. Louis Sacher is known for his kids books (Holes) but he's no slouch in grown-up fantasy lit. A seemingly immortal magician in a 16th century kingdom is caught up in politics when an evil prince is set to marry the

💙📚🪐 #SFF I am so happy Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz is in bookshops and libraries today. Refreshingly sweet and cozy, this short tale of AI friendship and support making a wonderful little restaurant is the hopeful kind of science fiction we need right now. A favorite SF for 2025.

💙📚🪐🌶️⏳⚡Books finished reading in July. Some really good reads this past month. Several were ARCs but of books already out I've been unable to stop talking about Alchemy of Flowers and I Think I'm in Love With an Alien. All the others I have or will be able to recommend to various readers.

castle in France. "Help Wanted: In search of a gardener for the ancient walled Jardins du Paradis in the South of France. Unique and rustic lodging provided. Off the grid in all ways. One must grow flowers from one's merde . . ." it also stipulates that no children are allowed on the premises.

Beautifully written with a touch of magic it deals with the heartbreak of reproductive issues and the healing balm of love in a mysterious garden. Unique and so very good! A woman, suffering from losses she can't endure runs across a curious job ad for someone to care for a garden at an isolated ⏩

Many years ago I had a horrific miscarriage at somewhere between 16 and 20 weeks. I have always grieved for that baby who never was born. The Alchemy of Flowers by Laura Resau is a beautiful healing balm and affirmation of feelings. I'm so glad it will be in bookstores and libraries today. Review

it is my favorite suspense novel of the year.

murdered, the grieving young widow discovers she has inherited a fortune and a villa in Tuscany from someone she has never heard of. Going there she finds a falling apart villa and neglected lands. As she tries to uncover why she is the heir, danger stalks her when asleep and awake. Currently ⏩

💙📚⚡I read my first Scottoline book (her first published book) about 30 years ago. Every once in a while I'll pick up her new title and I'm glad I grabbed The Unraveling of Julia. Not part of a series, it is mystery, suspense, romance, and a sliver of the paranormal. Six months after her husband is ⏩

Neguse: Only in Washington, D.C. could politicians come to the floor and brag about cutting $9 billion from rural radio stations while two weeks ago they voted to increase the deficit by $4 trillion. Spare us these lectures.

Elon Musk bought X
Stephen Colbert is getting pulled off the air
NPR and PBS just got gutted
Jeff Bezos is reportedly considering killing Teen Vogue

And then they'll try to tell you progressive politics aren't popular

Phoenix Pencil Company. Other Side of Now.

💙📚. Personal favorites of the 126 books finished this year. Only new; not rereads. Road to Tender Hearts. Under the Same Stars. Queens of Crime. Murder by Memory. Adventures of Mary Darling. Hemlock and Silver. Raising Hare. Everything is Tuberculosis. Automatic Noodle. Good Boy.⏭️

💙📚🌶️When I review for Booklist, I read the ARC months in advance of publication so sometimes I don't notice when it hits the shelves and people can actually buy it or check it out. The Good Boy by Stella Hayward was released last week and it is such enjoyable fun. Made me laugh & cry. Magic! Dog! 💘

💙📚🪐 #SFF Aaargh! I hate it when I read the ARC of a new favorite book and then realize that it won't be out for 4 months! Mark your calendar for 11/11/25 to look for Turns of Fate by Anne Bishop, 1st in the new Isle of Wyrd fantasy series. It is so good. Once I started reading it, I couldn't stop.