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• Trail of Lightning

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  In a world where flooding has changed the landscape, Maggie fights monsters to protect people. When she tries to find a missing girl, something much bigger than a monster complicates her life and her hunting.

• Gideon the Ninth

  Muir, Tamsyn,

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  When her planet's necromancer joins a mysterious competition, Gideon is dragged along as the sword-wielding cavalier tasked with protecting necromancer Harrowhark. Just her luck that people start turning up dead around them.

• Chain-Gang All-Stars

  Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame,

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  Convicted of a crime? Join a Chain-Gang to compete in death-matches for packed arenas with your fellow Links, and if you survive long enough maybe you'll win your freedom. This near-future dystopian is equal turns chilling and fascinating.

• All Systems Red

  Wells, Martha,

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  A security bot just wants to be left alone to watch its favorite shows, but humans around it keep getting almost killed. Since this particular batch of humans are less awful than most, poor Murderbot has to backburner its shows and play the hero.

• Every Heart a Doorway

  McGuire, Seanan,

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  At a magical boarding school for kids who've been through portals to other worlds, students are suddenly turning up murdered, just as Nancy begins her term. When all the students have secrets, who can unravel which ones are dangerous?

• Dark Angel. The Complete First Season

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  After she escaped from a secret lab, genetically engineered Max lost herself in the streets of a futuristic Seattle, just hoping to blend in and avoid the handlers trying to recapture her. But after she meets an idealistic journalist, her plans…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• ÆonFlux

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  Inspired by the 1990s MTV animated series, an assassin works her way to the seat of power only to uncover more secrets than she anticipated.

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