My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion: Free Fantasy & Science Fiction for October.
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My latest short story An Unexpected Grace appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 24: Science Fiction Holidays.
Still coming to terms with her decisions during a recent assignment, Corporal Siwela takes a leave-of-absence. Perhaps a holiday visit to her home community will help get her head straight. But the trip doesn’t go as planned. Marooned and wounded in the Martian outback, running out of air, Siwela won’t survive without aid. This wasn’t how she planned to spend Christmas.
Star Rider and the Golden Threads, by Heidi Skarie
While Toemeka is living in a secret dome-city for refugees, an urgent message arrives from Queen Koriann of Jaipar. Planetary-conqueror and sorcerer, Samrat Condor, is threatening to attack unless they surrender.
Toemeka goes to Jaipar, where she is reunited with Agent Erling Fenian, her former Coalition partner.
Can they save Jaipar together?
Our Club Codex selection for October is Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon. We’re starting this novel a bit late because the previous discussion went longer than expected. Solomon received the Otherwise Award for Sorrowland in January.
From the publisher’s website:
“Vern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.
But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes.
To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future—outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it.”
Here's the discussion schedule in October:
Week of October 15: Chapters 1-9
Week of October 22: Chapters 10-18
Week of October 29: Chapters 19-28
I plan to post my thoughts on our current chapter selection to Club Codex each week. Join me!
Please restrict posted comments to the chapters we are currently discussing or have discussed. This will help protect other participants from spoilers. Thank you!
I look forward to meeting and sharing ideas with each of you.
The Club Codex selections for the rest of the year are as follows:
November: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
December: Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders1
“Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak” is the second book in Anders’ Unstoppable trilogy. Participants in this discussion are encouraged to read the first novel, “Victories Greater Than Death”, in advance.
Club Codex (October 2023): "Sorrowland" by Rivers Solomon