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A Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Finalist
In a near-future world on the brink of collapse, a young woman born into servitude must seize her own freedom in this glittering debut with a brilliant twist—perfect for fans of Station Eleven, Karen Thompson Walker, and Naomi…
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1 author picked The World Gives Way as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book mixes so many genres of fiction that it felt wonderfully fresh to me, even as a veteran reader of science fiction and mystery novels. It has a proper investigator with a badge doing sleuthing to track down his suspect. The catch is that the story takes place on a generation spaceship that is encountering very bad technical difficulties while still very far from its destination.
The story is a clever cat-and-mouse detective-suspect chase wrapped in science fiction. It is actually about fundamental questions like what makes life meaningful and what you would do if you only had a…
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