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- 2. Historical queer romantic fantasy you simply must read if you are impatiently waiting for the next season of Bridgerton
- 4. It's giving Mad Max but make it sapphic
- 5. National Book Award winner William Alexander tracks Captain ____ as he trains young androids in cozy SF debut SUNWARD
- 7. The source of power for warriors in A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST
- 9. In celebration of 10th anniversary, Saga Press is publishing these nostalgic tales
- 10. Sly animal at the center of the drama in THE INKEEPER'S SONG by Peter Beagle
- 15. In R.A. Salvatore's PINQUICKLE'S FOLLY, this warship, manned by the Xoconai people, threatens the free seas
- 16. The star formation traversed in THE FOLDED SKY, Elizabeth Bear's space adventure
- 19. Years of working in customer service prepare the main character of this romantasy for a unique job in the afterlife
- 22. If you're a fan of this hit tv show (starring Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney), then you should pick up A GAME IN YELLOW, a cosmic horror novel by Hailey Piper
- 24. Main Character of this epistolary literary horror from Stephen Graham Jones
- 25. The main character from AN ANCIENT WITCH'S GUIDE TO MODERN DATING finds herself transported from this century into the present day
- 26. THE SECRET MARKET OF THE DEAD is set in this place where guides are made of starlight and mansions fold a thousand times
- 28. Fans of this famed BBC show should delve headfirst into this alternate historical mystery from multiple award-winning Michael Moorcock and Mark Hodder
- 29. If you're into this type of gameplay, you'll need to get your hands on HOW TO DEFEAT A DEMON KING (IN 10 EASY STEPS)
- 30. A campy horror novel series featuring a man with no shadow and a lady in chains will teach you how to survive what outdoor activity?
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- 1. Premiere horror award recently won by Gwendolyn Kiste's THE HAUNTING OF VELKWOOD
- 3. The protagonist of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM that earned the nickname "the orphan hacker"
- 5. Real fans will know it from this Halsey lyric alone, I fear - "You were red, and you liked me because I was blue..."
- 6. Genre trope on display in Alexandria Warwick's sleeping beauty inspired romantasy
- 8. Thing you'd rather not touch in THE WILL OF THE MAN
- 11. If you want magic in Stacey McEwan's A FORBIDDEN ALCHEMY, take a dose of this
- 12. this anthology of essays asks genre titans like Paul Tremblay, Hailey Piper, Grady Hendrix, and Stephen Graham Jones about what drew them to scary literature
- 13. In literary horror HERCULINE, the main character travels from NYC to this state to face her demons, figurative and literal unfortunately
- 14. THE KING MUST DIE from Compton Crook award winner Kemi Ashing Giwa has strong (and timely) themes of climate endangerment, anti-colonialism and __________
- 17. In this dark fantasy that's perfect for fans of Godkiller and Gideon the Ninth, a goddess devotee wants to commit this unthinkable crime
- 18. In YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN, Andrew J. White uses this type of invasion to deftly explore themes of identity, survival and transformation
- 20. Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, closes out a series of books this year featuring this pistol-toting badass
- 21. Anthology that dares to imagine a better world, WE WILL ____ AGAIN
- 23. The number in the title for Simon Stålenhag's (creator of Electric State) next work
- 24. Destinations in Daryl Gregory's WHEN WE WERE REAL
- 27. it's giving "where have all the men gone?" in this novel, the first in a trilogy about society where women rule but none have been born in a generation