After summer’s glut of relaxing reads and hot-weather thrillers, autumn is the perfect time to welcome more piquant stuff, including brand-new voices you just might fall in love with. Here are 10 recent debuts worth adding to your stack.
To quote Douglas Adams, “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” Considering we already routinely get lost just driving to a new city—even with the benefit of a tiny AI giving us directions—there’s no questioning that once humans have reached the point that we’re actually traveling […]
Barbary Station is loaded with levels of space pirate action few books could hope to match, delivered in a way you’ve never experienced before. R.E. Stearns’ debut hits the ground running, introducing us to our coupled protagonists, engineers/lovers Adda and Iridian, as they awaken in transit to the titular station onboard the Prosperity Dawn, a […]
R.E. Stearns’ debut novel, Barbary Station, gave us one of our favorite cover reveals ever, not only because it’s gorgeous (that title treatment tho!) but because of the enthusiasm of its editor, Navah Wolfe of Saga Press, who sold the book to the internet in one tweet: “Queer women of color space pirates versus an […]