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My second recommendation is 'The Mars House' by Natasha Pulley. I'm a Natasha This This delightful, imaginative novel uses sci-fi tropes as a launching point into something whimsical and playful — closer to fantasy than hard sci-fi. It's a love story masquerading as a sci-fi novel and fantasy cosplaying as speculative fiction. And it all works like gangbusters. In a not-too-distant future, London has become a drowned city. Our hero January Stirling was the principal dancer in London's Royal Ballet — now he's living on a terraformed colony on Mars. And through a series of circumstances (that are equal parts…

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The High House by James Stoddard,

The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

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