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Past Crimes by Jason Pinter

Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

Denial by Jon Raymond

The Trials of Empire by Richard Swan

The Slain Divine by David Dalglish

In the Shadow of Their Dying by Michael R. Fletcher & Anna Smith Spark

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[gregjohnson]

As a long time reader of science fiction, I agree that promoting SF doesn't seem to be most publishers' number one priority these days. So I'd like to recommend not just a book, but a writer, Linda Nagata, whose latest novel I'm currently reading. Nagata wrote a series of great SF novels back in the nineties, then took some time off for a career and family, she returned a decade or so ago and has been self-publishing since, under the imprint Mythic Island Books. Her just published latest is Blade, book four in her Inverted Frontier series which picks up where her earlier hard SF books left off. It's full of post-human societies, cosmic engineering disasters, and human beings trying to figure out what happened to the galaxy they find themselves in. Good stuff.

[AntisocialAuntie]

Past Crimes sounds interesting! I have it on hold at the library. Thanks for the recommendation!

[kaiju_k]

Denial sounds awesome, nice picks in this one.

[julien]

Looks like I really need to start on The Justice of Kings...

[dmbfreak]

Great list as usual. I need to read Fletcher.

[notahachitaet]

Great video, thank you! It would be really awesome if you make a video on climate fiction specifically, I've read The Deluge last year, loved it, and now I want to read more books with similar themes🙂

[malcolmdude]

Great list. Unfortunately, despite looking forward to the release I was disappointed in "Trails of Empire". I loved the first 2 books but the third literally uses Dues ex Machina to conclude the story, kind of diminishing the build up of the first 2 books. My best read so far this year was "The Tainted Cup" by the author of the great Divine Cities trilogy. It's a murder mystery in a fascinating world and is quite humorous. I'd love to hear your take on it.
The next in the series after "The Will of the Many" may be out this year, and I'm hoping my favourite sci fi read will be "Disquiet Gods" in April (Sun Eater 6).

[kyrilson]

Great video!! Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson is pretty good if you like “Cli-Fi”. I’m the same way, aware of my carbon footprint but not political about it. It’s just an interesting topic.

[scottv]

🚀 can’t wait to read the Empire of the Wolf trilogy later this year 💫

[GrimdarkMagazine]

Thank you for the review! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and appreciate you giving it a go.

[khomo]

Very good!👍👍👍📚🤖🚀🐲I just started with the justice of kings...🙂

[mosaicmind]

I WANT to like Fantasy books but I just don't. I flat-out love Fantasy movies...but not books. I dont know why. 🤷 All I can figure is that Fantay books will spend 5 pages describing a tree that has nothing to do with the story, and I have no patience for that. However, I might give a try to these Sci-fi/Fantasy combos. Maybe.

[Tetsujin-]

Thumbnail: Even with it blurred I knew it was The Trials of Empire. Magnificent read.
Richard Swan says that VonValt was inspired, in part, by Gregor Eisenhorn (Dan Abnett).
That might be a trilogy you'd enjoy.

[lisacole]

I read The Justice of Kings and loved it. Still have to get to book 2 but I am really looking forward to it. I've heard mixed reviews of the third book. But if you enjoyed it, that gives me confidence. 😊

[leezirkle]

Have you read all the books by michael Crighton?

[chones_]

prediction: disquiet gods will be in your top 10 scifi.

[TheMike]

Trials of Empire was so good and a fitting end to a terrific series. Vonvalt and Helena were such great characters. Time to Kill seems really interesting to me. 📚🚀