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Winner of the Compton Crook Award
From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor.
In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier
...3) Ornamental
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Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Ornamental is Juan's third novel, but it will be his first translated into English. It follows a scientist who recruits a group of volunteers for the trial of a new recreational drug that only affects women. Among them is "number 4," who becomes emotionally involved with first the scientist and then his wife, a well-known visual artist in the midst of a creative crisis. The scientist is oblivious to the atrocities his new drug will bring to the city...
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Harper
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Gathering at the wealthy bohemian enclave of Topanga Canyon to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, Dani Sanders, after taking a short-acting psychedelic under the stars, wakes up to discover that her friends have gone missing and must figure out if she's been abandoned or if someone's taken them.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"When a once promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous particle physicist's memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: plagued by debt after failing to deliver a novel, he's grown distant from his wife--a successful A.I. researcher--and is haunted by an overwhelming dread he describes as "The Mist." Desperate for relief, he undergoes an experimental, psychedelic treatment and emerges to find his world transformed: joy suffuses every...
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